Seat 3: Richard Lyndaker (Las Vegas, United States) - 1,200,000 chips
28-year old Richard Lyndaker hails from Las Vegas and has compiled a rather impressive record in the game. With recorded tournament results dating back to 2007, Lyndaker has over US$1.3 million in career earnings including 13 WSOP cashes.
His biggest result came at the 2008 WSOP when he finished runner-up in the tough $5,000 No Limit Holdem event for $570,551. Clearly Lyndaker has learnt from some of the very best as he credits former WPT champion Tom Marchese as his biggest influence in poker.
Away from the tables he enjoys soccer and fine dining.
Lyndaker has really enjoyed the good structure and says that he "only got it in bad once" in the Main Event - that was when he hit a flush draw against Erik Seidel's set. That hand helped him reach the final table but he has some work to do as one of the short stacks.
*Biography courtesy of the PokerStars Blog.