Sitting on a 1.295 million chip stack and in 58th place at the start of Day 6 of the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event was New Jersey’s William Tonking, who has already made his largest tournament cash of his career, but was looking to make this one the biggest of all in winning the Main Event.

It seems from his Hendon Mob statistics that Tonking usually does well in even-numbered years. In 2008, Tonking earned his first ever tournament cash at the Venetian’s Deep Stack Extravaganza IV, but he wouldn’t be heard again from until almost two years later.

Tonking earned min-cashes at the 2010 WSOP in $1,000 and $1,500 No Limit Hold’em events. Two more years would go by before he returned again with three minor cashes in 2012, including his largest tournament win, at that time, of $28,000 for making the final table at the Sands in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Atlantic City was his stomping grounds in 2013, as he made three cashes, with two of them coming at Borgata and one coming at Harrah’s for a nominal payday. Earlier in the 2014 WSOP, Tonking took part in the $1,500 Mixed Max event, where he finished 77th out of the 1,475-player field. The money that Tonking would eventually get for his finish in the 2014s Main Event would nearly double his lifetime earnings, which sat at slightly more than $93,000.

By the time 40 players remained on Day 6 of the 2014 WSOP Main Event, Tonking’s chip stack had shot up to 6.1 million, the 16th largest in the field. He was the last player standing from the Garden State, which less than a year prior launched legalized online poker and internet gambling. When 40 remained, he had the third highest chip stack of anyone on the East Coast of the United States.