-- Chip count: 23,920,000


-- Age 27

-- From Moscow, Russia

-- Professional Poker Player

-- Single

-- Enjoys skiing and scuba diving

-- Playing at the WSOP for the first time, this year

-- Finished 11th place in Event #44

Despite playing his first livetournament at this year’sWorld Series, Demidov isrunning a close second inchips, with 24,400,000. Hedescribes himself as ‘a semiprofessionalpoker playerfrom Moscow’, and says thatthe playing style there is notso different from what he’sencountered at the Series.