While on vacation with his girlfriend, Piccioli learned that his father, Dan, suffered a spinal injury after falling in his home, and needed to undergo surgery. Afterward, he planned on taking some time off, and ended up away from the game far longer than he’d anticipated. Once the top-ranked online poker player in the world, Piccioli held the chip lead into Day 5 of last year’s main event, but finished 84th. His father shouldn’t be following from a wheelchair. The 28-year-old from upstate New York shouldn’t be there, one of nine players left in a field that started with 7,221 entrants. Percentages have never meant less, though. The current leader has nearly three times as many chips, with second-place holding more than two and a half times as much as Piccioli. The odds are against Bryan Piccioli winning the $8.15 million grand prize at the World Series of Poker main event final table.
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