Seat 4: Leonard Maue, 28, from Braunschweig, Germany, now resides in Vienna, Austria – 4,305,000
Leonard Maue started playing poker about ten years ago. For the last five years,
he's been a full-time professional, so he followed the same path as many other
German pros and relocated to Vienna. Maue plays tournaments exclusively and
prefers online over live games.
But traveling around the circuit provides a good balance for the 28-year-old, who has
been attending most of the EPTs lately. "I've always liked the EPT streams. I used to
watch them all the time," he said.
Now one of the main characters on PokerStars TV himself, Maue will pick up his first
EPT Main Event cash. But he already boasts an impressive live tournament resume,
headlined by a €25,000 tournament victory at EPT Barcelona 2022.
He would need an outright win here – or a favorable deal – to top the €653,160 payday
from last August. Should he really take it down, he would become the first German
EPT champ since Manig Loeser, who prevailed on the same stage in May 2019.
Maue is on a second bullet. He qualified online at PokerStars, but the first attempt
didn't go his way. So he decided to reenter at the buzzer, come back for Day 2 with a
fresh 30,000 in chips, and spin the 20 big blinds into a real shot at the title. He claimed
he knows all of his opponents on the final table. "I came prepared," he said.