Seat 3: Tomasz Brzezinski, 37, from Poland, resides in Malta (7,625,000)
Tomasz Brzezinski is originally from Leszno but relocated to Malta 10 years ago. He works in the sports-betting industry and plays poker in his free time. He’s had a few deep runs in the past, including a second place for €34,500 here in Barcelona in the spring, but none of the previous results can match reaching an EPT Main Event final table.
Brzezinski thanked the support he’s received on a Maltese expat poker forum on Facebook, as well as several friends who are on the rail on-site.
The 37-year-old Lech Poznań fan likes to play padel but hasn’t competed in any of the EPT’s own padel events yet – simply because they always collided with his poker schedule.
He will have another chance to get the first EPT padel experience in October when the tour stops in his backyard. “I already had that festival in my plans before this run,” Brzezinski confirmed his attendance.
Maybe he will show up at EPT Malta not only as Poland’s 20th finalist but also the nation’s sixth Main Event champion.
Player profiles courtesy of Jan Kores/PokerStars
Tournament Progression
Day 1: 89,000 (167/424, 1b)
Day 2: 109,000 (215/313)
Day 3: 476,000 (56/103)
Day 4: 1,485,000 (20/29)
Day 5: 6,525,000 (4/11)
Day 6: 7,625,000 (6/6)
Career Statistics
Career earnings: $89,211
EPT cashes: None
Best EPT result: None
Key Hands
On Day 5, Brzezinski had most of his chips in the middle as Alexandros Michas was all in for 2,135,000. Michas was racing with jacks against ace-queen, but Brzezinski made two pair to win the pot and send Michas out in 16th place.
Brzezinski scored the first two eliminations of Day 6, first turning a pair of tens to beat Yohan Rascar's pair of nines. He then rivered two pair against Sergio Carro Marin's pair of kings to set the nine-handed final table.
At the final table, Brzezinski called Marc Foggin's all in for 1,800,000, but both players showed ace-king and were headed for a chop until Brzezinski made a flush on the turn to bust Foggin in seventh place.