Seat 6: Joep van den Bijgaart, 24, Amsterdam, Netherlands – Team PokerStars Pro - 1,060,00
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Van den Bijgaart – known as Pappe_ruk online - studied Facilities Management at college but soon switched to playing poker. He is now considered one of the biggest up-and-coming poker talents in Holland and this year alone has played more than half a million hands online. He’s a regular in PokerStars’s major tournaments and won $69,234 for runner-up place in the PokerStars Sunday 500 in January 2009. His best live result was in November that year when he came third in a Master Classics side event. He also came 39th at EPT London this season and 34th at EPT Deauville in Season 5 as well as as finishing seventh in a World Series of Poker $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout.