CPTV Video Spotlight -- Meet 2016 WSOP November Niner Michael Ruane28-Year-Old Poker Pro Enters The Final Table In Fifth Chip Position |
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Michael Ruane is 28 years old and has never held a normal job, but is guaranteed to become a millionaire. He’s one of the final nine players remaining in the 2016 World Series of Poker $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event, and will enter the final table in fifth chip position with 29,800,000. He has locked up at least $1,000,000 and has a chance to take home the $8,000,000 first-place prize and become the next world champion.
“Just like everybody else I watched poker on TV,” said Ruane. “I started playing with my friends in high school about 10 years ago now and I’ve just been playing professionally ever since.”
Ruane is a New Jersey native. He got his start as a poker pro online and moved out of the country to continue playing on the major international sites following Black Friday, but has returned to New Jersey in recent years after it became one of the first few states with legal online poker in the United States.
Ruane’s largest prior live tournament cash was for only $17,244 for a 30th place finish in the 2012 EPT Campione main event.
“I can’t even begin to…” said Ruane when trying to wrap his mind around his situation. “I just think everything is going to change for my family and I.”
Card Player TV did an interview with Ruane just minutes after he made the WSOP main event final table. You can check it out in it’s entirety below to learn more about his road to the final table and what he thinks of his position at the table.
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