Seat 5: Max Altergott (2,215,000)
The second year this event was held, in 2013, it was won by a relatively unknown German player who was recording the first live tournament result of his poker career. That player was Max Altergott, an online high-stakes cash-game player, and he won that event for nearly €1.75 million after defeating Jason Mercier in heads-up play.
Since then, Altergott has become a regular in big buy-in poker tournaments, racking up over $3.6 million in live cashes. Of note, he scored a victory in the 2013 World Poker Tour Paris €15,000 High Roller for €181,440 and won the 2014 Aussie Millions $25,000 Challenge for AU$241,785. Altergott also took second in a WPT Alpha8 event for ￡350,000 in London and has cashed in a couple of ARIA high roller events.
You can regularly find Altergott hanging around with several other members of "Team Germany," such as Tobias Reinkemeier, Philipp Gruissem, Igor Kurganov, and Fabian Quoss, and he could prove to be the first player to win this event twice if he can come out on top here.
He will enter Day 3 fourth in chips with an average stack of 2.215 million.