Final Table Profile Seat 4: Max Menzel
You can try Googling him all you want, but you won��t find much information about Germany��s Max Menzel online �C apart from a recent interview with PokerStars Blog.
That��s because the 37-year-old is predominantly a live cash game player. Originally from Berlin, Menzel was essentially a poker pro throughout his college years, funding his studies through cards. But when he and his wife decided to start a family, he decided to get a corporate career instead and now works in management for a German logistics company.
Menzel and his family moved to China ten years ago for work and while there he spent a lot of time grinding the games in Macau. But since moving to Singapore a year ago, poker has taken a backseat so he can spend more time with his wife and two young children.
Still, he occasionally has to travel for work and likes to play a bit of poker while he��s away, and that��s what led to him being here in the Bahamas. Menzel binked his Platinum Pass on one such excursion, winning the Road to PSPC in Manila.
��Without wanting to sound arrogant, I think I��m probably one of the best players who are unknown on the circuit,�� he told us on the first break of the Day 4, before immediately going on a surge up the chip counts. And now he��s on the biggest final table of the year, so perhaps he��s right.