Coming into Day 6 of the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event, Los Angeles’ Eddy Sabat was looking to claim something that he has pursued for the last seven years – a WSOP bracelet. With his 2.215 million in chips, good for 39th place at the start of Day 6, Sabat was in an excellent position to add to what had already been a very successful tournament poker career. He finished in 16th place for $347,000.

Although his first tournament cash came in 2007, the poker world began to learn about Sabat with his third place showing at the WSOP Circuit stop at Harrah’s Rincon in San Diego in 2008. Buoyed by that deep run in a tough tournament, Sabat pursued the tournament trail throughout the 2008 calendar year, earning his first cash on the World Poker Tour and two cashes at the WSOP. It wasn’t until the end of 2008 that Sabat was able to make his first significant mark on tournament poker.

Playing on the Asia Pacific Poker Tour, Sabat would fight through a 538-player field to take down the championship of the stop in Macau in September 2008. The $453,427 first place check, a lifetime of earnings for some poker players, only spurred Sabat onward.

Between that victory and the 2014 Main Event, Sabat was able to claim 16 more WSOP cashes, including four in 2014 alone, three World Poker Tour cashes (including a third place finish in the 2013 WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic), and four European Poker Tour cashes among his 45 resume finishes.

For his seven-year career from 2007 to 2014, Sabat made over $2 million in lifetime tournament poker earnings, not counting the 2014 Main Event. He was one of several California poker players making waves in the final moments of the 2014 Main Event.