Seat 6: Dragan “AADRAGAN” Kostic (Mallorca, Spain) – 2,155,000
Dragan Kostic is 47 years old and was born in Serbia, but has lived in Spain for the last 20 years. He took up poker in 2001 -- the year that the Euro was introduced in Spain. He said, “I remember it was that year because I was losing a lot of Euros!”
Kostic actually learned Texas Hold’em at private clubs while running a restaurant in Innsbruck, Austria. Although he plays a lot of live events in Mallorca, the European Poker Tour is by far the biggest live tournament he has ever entered. The married father of three won his seat in a live satellite on the eve of the Main Event.
On making the final table he said, “I’m very happy to reach the final because, at the start of Day 3, I only had 30,000," which was the same amount the players began the tournament with on Day 1. "I always aimed to make it, but that means not making a single error -- because if you make just one mistake, you’re out!”
His wife Simona is supporting him from home while looking after the couple’s youngest daughter. Hopefully he'll be bringing an EPT title home to them when the day is complete.
Kostic enters the day sixth in chips out of the final eight with 2.155 million.
Bio courtesy of PokerStars