Seat 3: Mario Puccini, Hamburg, Germany -- 2,065,000
Economics student Mario Puccini has been playing poker since 2007. He’s well known in the German poker community for winning nearly a hundred tournaments on PokerStars in the last four years, including the Super Tuesday in 2009 for over $60,000. His last major win was taking down the PokerStars $55 rebuy for $12,500.
This is his fourth EPT Main Event cash. His best result so far was eighth place at EPT Loutraki in November for €27,000. He also finished 51st at EPT Budapest in 2008 and 32nd at EPT San Remo in 2010. He’s also had three final tables in EPT side events with his best being a third-place finish in a Dortmund €2,000 event for €42,000.
Puccini enters the final table with just over two million in chips and sits fourth overall.
Bio courtesy of PokerStars.