When the final table of Event #25: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed at the 2015 World Series of Poker goes down Saturday, at least one player will be looking to get a rather large monkey off his back.
Dan O'Brien, who gave up a career on Wall Street to pursue poker, has been at the precipice of glory in major tournaments more times than most, but has yet to win the big one. He has finished runner-up in two WSOP Europe events, made two other WSOP final tables booking a third and fourth-place finish, and bubbled another, finishing seventh in a WSOP $5,000 Six-Handed event.