Seat 5: Isabel Baltazar (Bordeaux, France) – 2,270,000
Isabel Baltazar -- 44 and of French and Portuguese descent -- is a professional restauranteur, but has always enjoyed playing cards at casinos in her free time. She took up poker five years ago and, in fact, her 19-year-old daughter is about to start a course to become a croupier.
Passionate about playing live, Baltazar’s best results to date were third place in a Partouche Poker Tour side event and fourth place in a €600 2010 Campeonato Espana De Poker tourney in Spain.
She finds it interesting that tomorrow’s final -- by far the biggest of her career -- will take place in Spain, which lies sandwiched between her two “home” countries of France and Portugal. She says her aim for the final is to last as long as possible and focus on playing her usual solid style of play.
Baltazar will enter the final table with 2.27 million in chips. That's right in the middle of the pack in fourth place.
Bio courtesy of PokerStars