Seat 7: Torsten Brinkmann �C 1,875,000
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Seat 7: Torsten Brinkmann, 27, Osnabr��ck, Germany �C 1,875,000
Economics student Brinkmann has been playing poker since 2006 and is a regular in heads-up cash games, as well as the Sunday tournaments on PokerStars. He also plays live in his home casino in Osnabr��ck.
His best online result was runner-up in a $215 WCOOP event, for $193.620, in 2009, losing heads-up to Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand ElkY Grospellier. His best live finish was first place at the �1,000 Twente Classics Enschede, for �33,480.
This is his third EPT. He cashed last season at EPT Berlin in 88th place for �12,000. Brinkmann is being railed in Madrid by his girlfriend Natalie Hof, one of the last six contestants left in the German poker talent show ��Das PokerStars.de Ass�� which is airing now in Germany.