Seat 2: Lennart Uphoff (Bavaria, Germany) - 3,595,000 chips
Lennart Uphoff is a 20-year old student who is one of a breed of emerging young German players who are taking the poker world by storm.
He has been playing poker for just two years after first getting started by playing with his friends. Uphoff usually plays multi-table tournaments with his record of $45,884 in earnings accumulated solely in tournaments in the Czech Republic.
Uphoff says that the best thing about this event has been the excellent structure provided in the Main Event. It's enabled him to amass the third highest chip stack entering the final table.
*Biography courtesy of the PokerStars Blog.