Seat 5: Jan Bendik, 46, Poprad, Slovakia - 445,000
Jan has been playing poker for six years as a hobby. He owns an electricity company in his homeland but has been playing poker more and more over the years. He has very little time for any other hobbies as poker dominates any free time he has. Poker has been a very fruitful for him as he has amassed over $600,000 in tournament winnings leading up to this tournament. This is his first EPT main event cash but he has cashed in three side events before including a first place finish in €1,000 event for €68,860 just three weeks ago at EPT Barcelona. Jan is being supported by some friends here this week.