Seat 2: Dimitar Danchev, 26, Plovdiv, Bulgaria - PokerStars qualifier - 1,995,000
Dimitar Danchev qualified through PokerStars in a $700 qualifier, and the 27 year old has been playing poker for over five years with more than half of that time as a professional. He generally doesn’t play too many tournaments and prefers to concentrate on cash games. His choice of game is no-limit Hold'em cash games, and he regularly plays online.
In October of 2011, Danchev netted his largest live score ever when he final tabled the European Poker Tour Sanremo Main Event. There, he went on to finish in second place behind Andrey Pateychuk and took home a cool €600,000 after the two struck a deal.
Since his massive result in Italy, Danchev has added another $161,113 to his live tournament record. He has already surpassed the $1 million mark for career live tournament earnings and is top of the Bulgarian All-Time Money list. Some of his other notable results include a 20th-place finish in the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final of last season for €40,000 and a 31st-place finish in this season's EPT Sanremo Main Event for €19,000.
Danchev has the chance to bring Bulgaria its first EPT title, and he'll surely be aiming to finish one spot better than he did in Sanremo in 2011 in order to snatch up the victory.
*Bio courtesy of PokerStars