Seat 8: Daniel Van Kalkeren, 25, Hengelo, Holland - 396,000 | 2010 PokerStars.net EPT Snowfest

Van Kalkeren has been a full-time professional poker player for the last two years but is here in Austria playing his first ever EPT. He took up poker while studying IT and communications at university. He plays online – invariably No Limit Hold’em short-handed cash games at $2/$4 and $3/$6 stakes. His best live result was reaching the final of a tournament in Budapest last year where he cashed for more than 18,000. Daniel is being supported from home by his girlfriend of eight years – as well as his new dog Tommy. Daniel and his friend Huub Verdonschot, who also made the final nine, both recently got new dogs and were teasing their friends who have bust that this is why they made the final.