When the dust settled, Poland emerged the victorious country and one of its youngest and biggest poker fans won €1,122,800 and the first stop on the EPT13 in Barcelona. Seven different countries were represented among the final seven players at the EPT13 Barcelona Main Event. Malec went all the way to the promised land on his first shot. You'd think he'd totally run out of gas, or lose his mud under the bright lights of the final table? Nope. Just when you thought the sharks would swallow the rookie whole, he kept his run going and he found himself at the final table. Malec embarked on a deep run and secured himself a min-cash. Once Malec got to the Main Event, he didn't just flame out on the first or second day like the majority of the field.

He bought into a €27 qualifier on PokerStars and parlayed that into a seat into the €5,300 buy-in EPT13 Barcelona Main Event. How big? He's a self-proclaimed EPT fanboy and loved it so much he couldn't wait to take a crack at playing in one of the events. Over the last dozen years, Malec took a shining to the game of poker became an avid watcher of the EPT. Okay, how about €27 and a dream to win an EPT event for over €1 million? Sebastian Malec was only nine-years old back in Poland when the European Poker Tour kicked off its first season back in 2004.

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