Seat 3: Tim Bowman -- 118,000
When the National Championship started two days ago, 20 Main Event champs from the 2012-2013 World Series of Circuit were in attendance. Now, just one remains in Tim Bowman, who defeated a field of 856 players to win the Harrah's Cherokee $1,675 Main Event in April for $250,380. Amazingly, that was Bowman's first-ever poker tournament!
Married to his high school sweetheart, with whom he has a 2-year-old, Bowman is a 30-year-old roofer from Hickory, North Carolina. His real name is John Timothy Bowman, and while he's been reported on the Circuit as "John Bowman" up to this point, he has informed PokerNews that he prefers "Tim Bowman" as John is his dad.
Given the National Championship is his just his third live tournament, Tim Bowman is most certainly the Cinderella story of today's final table.
With that said, he faces an uphill battle as second shortest stack at the final table.