Seat 1: César "CesarSPA" García, Las Palmas, Canary Islands -- 1,485,000
Law student César García is currently ranked the number one online tournament player in Spain and has a string of great online results. He was runner-up in the Sunday Million in August 2009 for over $200,000 and has also finished fourth in a Spring Championship of Online Poker rebuy event, fourth in the Sunday Warm-Up and won a $200 rebuy. What's more is that García also has a title from the World Championship of Online Poker in 2009.
García first took up poker after watching the EPT on TV. He and fellow students started playing home games in their university dormitory. In his first live tournament at the university in 2008, García came second. The following year, he played the same tournament again and won it for €6,000. This gave him a big enough bankroll to start playing online and also competing in live events, mainly at Casino Gran Madrid.
This is García's sixth EPT, but best live result to date. Previously, he came 39th in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event in 2010 for $59,000 and fifth in the EPT Deauville €2,000 side event for €30,500.
García’s parents César and Carmen have been here in Berlin all week, but he hasn’t let them watch him play in case it made him nervous. However, they will happily be on hand for today's final table rooting hard.
García enters the final table seventh in chips with 1.485 million.
Bio courtesy of PokerStars.