Dominik Nitsche, Germany (365,000)
Entering Day 3 as the second shortest stack with 365,000, Dominik Nitsche will be looking to add another big score to his more than $4.1 million in live tournament earnings. Nitsche has earned two-thirds of poker's Triple Crown achievement, winning both a World Series of Poker Bracelet and a World Poker Tour Title. In fact, he has three WSOP gold bracelets and is the youngest player in the game to achieve that status.
While Nitsche may be missing a European Poker Tour main event title to close the Triple Crown deal, he does have a big Latin-American Poker Tour from 2009. That proved not only to be the first big score of Nitsche's career, but it was his first live tournament result altogether. The event was in Mar del Plata, Argentina, and Nitsche topped a field of 291 players to take home $381,030.
Nitsche's gold bracelets came in 2012 and 2014. In the first, he won a $1,000 event for $654,797. In 2014, he won the WSOP National Championship for $352,800 and another $1,000 event for $335,659.