Neuville isn't your typical "old school" poker pro. Sure, he does have over 50 years of poker experience, but he did not start playing tournament poker until well after the poker boom. Neuville is also well known for playing a ton of poker online in his native country of Belgium. The retired businessman will certainly hope that experience will serve him well on the felt later today.
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However the road to the bracelet will not be an easy one for Neuville. Although his heads-up opponent is still very young, he is well known as being a top-notch online poker pro, having accumulated over $3.3M in online tournament earnings according to the PocketFives online tournament database.
Eyster is also a force on the live tournamet circuit. He won the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Showdown for $660K back in April of 2013.
Mr. Eyster will also start the day holding a sizeable chip lead on Neuville: 5.5M to 2.6M. Cards will be back in the air at 1PM Vegas time - best of luck to both participants!
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