One of the young up-and-coming players on the East Coast, Brooklyn, New York’s Patrick Chan is the epitome of someone who has paid his dues by playing his way through smaller events to finding himself sitting on the precipice of fame at the World Series of Poker Main Event in 2015. Firmly in the middle of the pack on Day 6 with his 7.9 million in chips, that fame may well be in becoming poker’s next World Champion.

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Perhaps Chan’s crowning moment during the tournament was eliminating popular Canadian pro Max Greenwood prior to the dinner break on Day 6. After three players entered the pot in front of him, Chan would three-bet the action only to see Greenwood deposit his stack to the center of the felt.

Once the other two competitors were out of the way, Chan immediately called and tabled pocket Aces against Greenwood’s pocket Jacks. After an Ace on the flop and a blank on the turn, Greenwood was drawing dead and Chan peaked at his then-high of 8.775 million in chips.

Chan’s first cash dates back to 2010, when he finished in 24th place at a $500 No Limit Hold’em at a WSOP Circuit event in Atlantic City that barely returned him double his buy-in. He continuously worked on his game throughout the smaller tournaments in Atlantic City with the occasional foray to Las Vegas, where he earned his then-largest cash in 2011 at the Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza.

Fast-forward another year and Chan earned his first ever WSOP cash in one of the $1,000 No Limit Hold’em events on the schedule.

Since that time, Chan’s career has skyrocketed as the events have become bigger. In November 2012, Chan earned third place in a $2,500 preliminary event on the Borgata Fall Poker Open schedule to pick up his largest cash to date, $131,895.

Once month later, he made the final table of the DeepStacks Poker Tour stop at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut and has gone on to add a deep cash in the 2013 World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open and four more cashes in the WSOP, including the 2015 Colossus. His total career earnings in tournament poker prior to the 2015 Main Event were $524,263, which he will double by finishing at least in 12th place in the WSOP Main Event.

He entered the 2015 WSOP November Nine in eighth place.