With almost $4,000,000 in tracked online tournament cashes in his PocketFives profile, Paul paulgees81Volpe is no stranger to the poker community. Before Black Friday hit the online poker industry in April 2011, Volpe was #1 in the world in the PocketFives Online Poker Rankings. His biggest online cash came in January 2011, when he won the PokerStars Sunday Million for almost $254,000.

Originally from New Jersey, Volpe now resides in Toronto, Canada, where he can freely continue his online poker career on sites such as PokerStars.

Volpe has had some moderate success in live poker tournaments as well, finishing in the money eight times at the WSOP heading into the 2012 Main Event, including a deep run in the 2011 WSOP Main Event. That year, Volpe finished in 192nd for over $47,000.

Paul was in great position to make a much deeper run in the 2012 WSOP Main Event, as he clocked in at 20th place with 97 players remaining with a comfortable stack of 3,250,000 in chips going into Day 6. However, he finished in 20th place for $294,000.

Volpe was among the chip leaders through the first few days of the 2012 WSOP Main Event. A key hand came on Day 4 with blinds at 5,000/10,000 when Volpe opened in middle position with 9-4 of clubs. American poker player Sean Rice 3bet to 52,000 from the button with A-K, Volpe 4bet to 125,000, and Rice called to see the flop.

The first three cards came K-4-2 with two clubs and despite Rice having top pair, top kicker and Volpe having middle pair with a flush draw, both players checked. When the turn was the 10 of clubs, it completed Volpe’s flush and he bet a little more than half the pot, which Rice called.

When the river showed another king, giving Rice three of a kind, Volpe shoved, giving Rice a tough decision on whether to call. After tanking for a couple of minutes, Rice called and was out of the tournament, while Volpe catapulted to 3,150,000 in chips. There aren’t many players in poker capable of 4betting 9-4 suited, which makes Volpe one of the most dangerous players in the world.

In one of the last hands of Day 4 of the Main Event, Volpe’s chip stack took a dent after losing a race to Eric Pratt. After some pre-flop raising, Volpe 5bet shoved with pocket jacks and Pratt called with A-K. Things were looking good until the river, but unfortunately for Volpe, the final card was an ace, bringing his stack down to 2,750,000. That was still enough to lead at the end of Day 4.

With Volpe’s online experience and fearless attitude, he is a force to be reckoned with in any tournament.