Seat 3: Christoph Vogelsang (4,765,000)
Second in chips entering Day 3 is Germany's Christoph Vogelsang with 4.765 million. An impressive player with over $5.7 million in live tournament earnings, Vogelsang is as calm and collected of poker player as they come.
Almost all of Vogelsang's live tournament results have come in big buy-in competitions. Not counting this event, Vogelsang has six live cashes to his credit, and four of those have been in events garnering a price tag of more than €25,000. His best result to date was a third-place finish in the 2014 World Series of Poker $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop — the same event that another member of this final nine, Paul Newey, took seventh in. There Vogelsang earned $4.48 million for his finish.
Also of note, Vogelsang's first-ever live cash was in the 2013 European Poker Tour London ￡50,000 Super High Roller for ￡383,200. He also made the final table of the 2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller and took fifth for $512,160.