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Talal Shakerchi is a highly successful investment manager from Great Britain.

At first glance, the 54-year-old founder and CEO of Meditor Capital Management Limited might appear like just another businessman peppered among the young high-stakes tournament professionals that dominate the super high roller events.

But despite his busy workload, Shakerchi has managed to become a serious poker player with quite the impressive resume.

He has accumulated more than $7.1 million in live tournament earnings, with millions more in online cashes. In fact, he took down one of the largest online tournaments ever, topping a field of 824 entries to win the 2016 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) $10,000 main event for $1,468,001.

Shakerchi has strung together a number of big scores over the past two months, starting with a fourth-place showing in the 2018 $300,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bo