A 31-year old Mississauga, Canada business analyst, Adam Daya, attended the World Series of Poker and won the $1,000 buy-in-no-limit Hold’em championship. He also got his first World Series of Poker bracelet. This happened over Memorial Day weekend 2010 where Daya topped well over 4,000 players. There have been only five other tournaments with turnouts larger than the turnout at this event. This event was so large that it required two starting days. Amazingly, this was Daya's first time cash in a World Series of Poker event, as he is a business analyst in Toronto, managing a large medical corporation’s information technology systems. Daya has been noted for saying that getting through so many players was the result of pure luck arriving at the right times.

The other eight players on the final table with Daya were from the United States. There were also some former World Series of Poker bracelet winners who cashed in on the Memorial Day weekend event. Records were also broken with the first father and son duo making the World Series of Poker final table. They were Richard Rice and his father Irving Rice.

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