Local hero Jan Skampa, 23, has made back-to-back final tables - a phenomenal feat which almost certainly hasn't been achieved since Season 1 when Ram Vaswani and Julian Thew both made the finals of Dublin and Copenhagen. Skampa, an economics student in Prague, came fourth two weeks ago in Vilamoura and now has a good chance of bettering that result in Prague. He is already by far the most successful Czech player on the EPT circuit and is third in the Czech all-time money list.
Skampa is currently studying at Charles's University in Prague, his home city, but spends most of his time playing poker. He learned the game from friends and has been playing seriously for just three years, scoring his first big result last August at WPT Slovakia, $24,508 for eighth place. He followed that with a win a month later, $24,881 at a WPT Cyprus side event before eclipsing all previous results with a fourth place finish in Vilamoura worth € 117,128.
