Final Table Player Profiles: Seat 8: Tomas Patka, 27, Trencin, Slovakia, resides in Austria - 16,350,000
Tomas Patka hails from Slovakia, but he currently lives in Austria, about 15 minutes from the border with his home country. Online poker has to do with it.
Patka is a tournament specialist who started playing the game when he was 18. Patka said he used to play hockey, but an injury prevented him from pursuing a sports career, so he chose poker. You wouldn't see him here in Monaco had he not qualified to the FPS for €100 at PokerStars.
Now on the biggest live event final table of his career, he's already locked up a great return on his investment. He's in excellent shape to squeeze even more from the record-breaking prize pool, having vaulted into the chip lead on the last hand of Day 3.