Seat 8: Jan Bendik (47, Poprad, Slovakia) – 3,980,000
Jan Bendik has been playing poker as a hobby for seven years. 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 nearly $850,000 in tournament winnings including making the final table of last season’s EPT Prague Main Event, where he finished sixth for €100,000. Before Prague, he had cashed in four side events including winning a €1,000 event at EPT Barcelona for €68,860. Since Prague, he has finished 49th in the EPT Grand Final in Madrid for €25,000 and made four other final tables.
Bendik will enter the final table third in chips.
Bio courtesy of PokerStars.