• Former real estate developer who is now the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers professional basketball team
  
• Holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from U.S.C., and briefly taught there before entering California’s lucrative real estate market
  
• Career tournament winnings in excess of $142,000
  
• Has played high-stakes cash games for years
  
• Gives credit to his mother for teaching him how to play

NHPC record: 0-2

2005: Eliminated in Round 1 by Daniel Negreanu
2006: Eliminated in Round 1 by Amir Vahedi

PAD record: 0-1

Match 2: 6th