Seat 2: Martin Schleich (Munich, Germany) – 2,260,000
Martin Schleich started playing poker online with No-Limit Hold'em cash games in 2006 and later decided to play more tournament poker, both live and online. He works part-time in customer service, but his poker expertise is demonstrated by the fact that, in cash games, he reached the highest ranking achievable in a big German online poker school.
He has already played a couple of European Poker Tour events and cashed once in the EPT Season 5 San Remo Main Event -- 81st for €9,200. He also cashed in two side events at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in January.
Schleich was the player who made this final table happen, eliminating Jose Miguel Esteban Nieto in ninth place last night right around dinner time. You can relive the action from that hand by reading yesterday's blog here.
If it wasn't for that last pot of the night, Schleich could have entered the final table as a much shorter stack, but by busting Esteban, he earned an extra 700,000 chips. The 29-year-old PokerStars player will enter the final table fifth in chips with 2.26 million.
Bio courtesy of PokerStars