Seat 3: Michael Dietrich, 28, London, Ontario - PokerStars qualifier - 1,550,000
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Housing contractor Dietrich started playing poker while in his second year at the University of Western Ontario playing home games with friends. A year later, he started playing online. He describes himself as a semi-professional player but his main job is in building. His best live result to date was winning a major online tourney in February 2011 for $135,000. He qualified for the EPT Grand Final via a 25,000 FPP satellite on PokerStars which got him a seat into a 125,000 FPP satellite. He won that �C and that got him to Monaco. Dietrich says he prefers play online to live as it's faster and he can play from home. For the last three years, he��s mainly played tournaments. He has known fellow finalist Clayton Mozdzen for years and is pleased he��s also on the final table.