Taylor taypaurPaur was the chip leader of the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event with 72 players remaining on Day 6. Paur, a veteran of the live and online poker worlds, held a stack of nearly 6.5 million, slightly ahead of the 6.2 million belonging to fellow PocketFives member Amit amak316 Makhija. He finished in 33rd place for $236,000.

Paur’s online poker antics include a win in a $150 tournament during the Full Tilt Online Poker Series in May 2010. He booked a payday of $192,000 in it after barreling through a field of over 1,700 players. In May 2012, Paur was the runner-up in a $109 No Limit Hold’em event during the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker, cashing for $68,000.

Other wins for Paur in online poker tournaments include the Full Tilt $200,000 Guaranteed, Absolute Poker $1K, Full Tilt Sunday Brawl, Full Tilt $1K Monday, PokerStars Sunday 500, and PokerStars Nightly Hundred Grand. In March 2011, Paur was #1 in the PocketFives Poker Player Rankings and has $3.5 million in tracked MTT cashes in his PocketFives profile.

In the live poker world, Paur banked nearly $200,000 in a $10,000 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max event during the 2011 WSOP after exiting in fifth place. According to the Hendon Mob, Paur had nearly a half-million dollars in career live tournament winnings headed into the 2012 WSOP Main Event.

Just days before his 2012 WSOP Main Event run, Paur took second in a $2,500 No Limit Hold’em event during the Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza and walked away with $56,000. He fell heads-up to Hong Kong’s Bjorn Li in that tournament; Li banked $94,000.

Paur joined PocketFives in the first month of 2008 and has contributed over 700 posts to the community. He lists his home nation as Cyprus and can be found on PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker room, playing under the screen name tramp$d0pray.