Seat 7: Bahadir Kilickeser, Bremen, Germany -- 4,640,000
Bahadir Kilickeser, a 33-year-old who works in wholesale and export trades, won his seat to Berlin in a €550 live satellite at the Spielbank Casino on Monday.
Kilickeser got his start in poker by taking up the game five years ago in the Weser Poker Lounge in his home city of Bremen. The Lounge now plans a big EPT final table party tomorrow in his honor — complete with a giant screen showing the EPTLive webcast so that all Kilickeser’s friends can support him from there.
This is his Kilickeser’s first-ever EPT and by far his biggest result he's posted in any tournament, ever. His only result on record is winning a €200 tournament at Spielbank Bremen for €6,000 in March.
Kilickeser, who is married, is also a successful amateur football player and now plays now for FC Union 60 Bremen in the sixth highest league in Germany. He enters the day second in chips behind Davidi KItai.
Bio courtesy of PokerStars.