Seat 1: Michael Feil, 27, Munich, Germany - PokerStars player - 3,305,000Feil considers himself as an "interim" professional player. He finished University last year and is now looking to get a role in engineering. Within the meantime, he's playing poker full time, mainly online. Feil plays cash games Monday to Saturday, but on Sunday he makes a speciality of the main MTTs on PokerStars. His biggest cash thus far was for around $19k, because of this making this final table has already given him the most efficient results of his career. He has played a couple of EPTs - in Vienna and Prague - and can buy in to the EPT Main Event here in Malta provided that he makes it to the highest three within the IPT.

Michael Feil

Seat 2: Frederik Reusch, 25, Hamburg, Germany - PokerStars player - 4,730,000By making the IPT final table, twenty-five-year-old Frederik Reusch has already secured the most important cash of his career. Before now, his biggest score came in Rozvadov, where he took down the Poker Belgique Masters for €18k. Reusch is currently in his final year of a Masters degree in Economics and that's the reason why he won't be playing the EPT Main Event: he has to travel back home to Hamburg for an exam. Reusch plays poker both live and online and both cash games and tournaments. Reusch is enjoying support from his friends who're cheering him on via text messages.

Frederik Reusch

Seat 3: Nicolino di Carlo, 28, Isola Gran Sasso, Teramo, Italy - 2,585,000Di Carlo is a poker pro who was playing for the last six years, mainly online cash games. His biggest online result to this point was €46k in a 2011 tourney. Last September he finished tenth within the IPT Sanremo Main Event for €6k - so he has just surpassed that achievement by making tomorrow's Malta final - however his best live result came at EPT7 Sanremo when he finished 27th for €22,500. Di Carlo studied maths at university but dropped out after two years to concentrate on poker; he also played pool as a semi-professional but needed to abandon that pursuit also. He's getting married in October; his fiancée is definitely now working as his manager as he pursues his poker career.

Nicolino di Carlo

Seat 4: Ezio Nisoli, 52, Verdellino, Burgamo, Italy - 1,960,000Nisoli is a businessman who owns a bar and in addition a slot room. He only plays poker recreationally but is pretty considering his local poker community where he's president of a Texas Hold'em club. He's been playing poker since 2007 and mainly plays live. Nisoli has a zeal for horses and racing. He was an amateur jockey for 12 years and owned his own stable of racehorses. His best result so far was winning a €300 NL event in Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt - an achievement he's extra happy with as it involved beating 2010 WSOP finalist Filippo Candio heads-up.

Ezio Nisoli

Seat 5: Julian Track, 31, from Berlin, Germany - PokerStars qualifier - 4,375,000Back in December 2013, when Track won the EPT9 Prague Main Event for a life-changing €725,700, he said that - except the forthcoming Aussie Millions - he probably wouldn't play any further live events because he preferred the faster pace of online. True enough, he did vanish for some time but he played both the PCA and FPS Deauville this season and in addition final-tabled a €1k Omaha Hi/Lo side event during EPT Barcelona last August. He won his package to the IPT Malta Main Event back in in January in a €215 qualifier.

Julian Track

Seat 6: Jaroslaw "husajn54" Sikora, 27, Krakow, Poland - 7,600,000Polish poker pro Jaroslaw Sikora was originally alleged to be in Thailand presently but, way to being unable to get a visa in time, he needed to cancel that vacation and decided to go to a pal in Malta instead. He has no regrets now as he's chip leader getting in to the overall table of the IPT Main Event. Sikora took up poker around nine years ago - after seeing a whole Tilt advertisement online - and was playing professionally for the last seven years, together with his biggest result so far coming last October when he finished fourth within the PokerStars Sunday Million for $41,363. He only plays live events a couple of times a year and, so far, his results are more modest and include a min-cash within the Eureka €2k High Roller last December. He now guaranteed a life-time best cash for making the IPT Malta final here.

Jaroslaw Sikora

Seat 7: Georgios "Zisimo7" Zisimopoulos, 26, Athens, Greece - 4,000,000Zisimopoulos is a widely known Greek player and arguably essentially the most experienced live tournament player on the table. He have been playing poker for around six years and is currently ranked #12 in Greece's all time money list. Zisimopoulos, who graduated in Economics from Athens University, has a ton of EPT cashes including three runner-up finishes in side events in London, Berlin and Prague. Making the IPT Malta final table will take his live tournament winnings well over the €300k mark but that figure is dwarfed by his online winnings which total nearly $2 million and include winning a WCOOP Omaha event for $100k.

Georgios Zisimopoulos

Seat 8: Georgi Abuladze, 26, Tallinn, Estonia - PokerStars qualifier - 2,645,000Even though Abuladze is the present Estonian online champion, he says that "playing poker live is more fun in fact"! and he says he's made a couple of suck-outs to get this far. He started playing poker around five-six years ago but was playing more seriously for the last 18 months. Online, he makes a speciality of low to mid-stakes MTTs, and the Sunday majors. He won his seat for IPT Malta €55 qualifier in January. His biggest live cash up to now was making the general 16 within the Eureka High Roller event in Prague for €10,600.

Georgi Abuladze

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