Seat 4: Ken Demlakian, Australia -- 529,500
Our chip leader entering the final table is Sydney's Ken Demlakian. A Structural Engineer by trade, Demlakian has been playing poker socially for a long time. He first got interested as a teenager before recently getting more involved in the game with his brother and his friends.
Demlakian can usually be found playing the $5/5 NLHE cash games, and this is his first tournament result of note. The most defining moment of this tournament for Demlakian was a devastating set-over-set hand that crippled Michael Kanaan. It proved to ultimately be the difference between chip leader and bubble boy.
Demlakian enjoys playing competitive tennis and basketball, and says that he has really enjoyed the variety of outside activities here in Queenstown.
Bio courtesy of PokerStars.