Don’t recognize any names, which is a nice change of pace:
Toriani, Keith 110,200 BR224 1
Lezcano, Ed 23,900 BR224 2
Hai, Le 113,100 BR224 3
Brokos, Andrew 92,200 BR224 4
Phung, Steve 26,500 BR224 5
Bykov, Andrey 27,500 BR224 6
Pages, Fernando 87,100 BR224 7
Fiala, Miroslav 103,500 BR224 8
Stanchewski,Paul 12,200 BR224 9
Keith Toriani- Nothing on him
Ed Lezcano- Nothing
Le Hai- Name is way too similar to common French, Italian, and Chinese words for accurate googling
Steve Phung- A couple shallow cashes in small live events, can’t find anything else on him
Andrey Bykov- He’s from Vladivostok and either is or shares a name with one of Putin’s top economic advisors. If it’s the former, I might have a new “Table of Death” to worry about!
Fernando Pages- According to his World Poker Showdown profile, he lost his job in December and has since been earning a living in local bar leagues and casinos. His interests include “meeting hot girls” and “poker cruises”.
Miroslav Fiala- Nothing in English nor anything in any other language that looked promising
Paul Stanchewski- Final tabled a $1500 Bellagio tournament.
Not much here, but this is one of those “no news is good news” situations. Seems like an unremarkable table, which is very welcome.
that 500,000 in chips will be a nice addition to your stack.
Miroslav Fiala is Czech, as stated at http://www.pokerzive.cz/wsop-2009/cesti-hraci-na-wsop/. But, except just the presence at WSOP, there is nothing special listed about him at the CZ poker resources.
Also the Russian one is definitely not a Putin advisor, there is, again, nothing interested about him in any of the well known Russian poker resources. Except that, in contrast to the alphabetic ordering, he is always listed at the end of any lists of Russians at WSOP, which is probably good, as noone knows anything special about him.
Don’t see how it may actually help you, so please just consider this comment as “Good luck”
Fiala is 22 years old, who won his seat at Paradise Poker network. Right here (http://www.casinokartac.cz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=483:-1-&catid=34:poker-aktuality&Itemid=94) he said that he started to play 1.5 years ago, played only online, and except the WSOP seat had the biggest cash of EUR 3K.
Love the twitter, but are you at all concerned about your opponents checking it at this point? Your blog is one of the first hits when you Google your name.