Player Profiles: Seat 6: Boris Kuzmanovic
You’d never guess it from his cool, calm demeanor, but Boris Kuzmanovic is on the verge of making history. If he takes down the EPT Barcelona Main Event he’ll become the first Croatian champion in the tour’s history.
“It has crossed my mind,” he says, smiling. “I'm usually very calm and I don't expect much but now I'm so close and the chances are real.”
Kuzmanovic, a 37-year-old computer consultant from Zagreb, used to play online cash games seriously around a decade ago. These days, however, he cherry-picks tournaments and only plays around 15 events a year. He’s played plenty under the PokerStars banner in that time and has more than half a million in live cashes. “I’ve had deep runs but nothing this big,” he says.
This will be his biggest cash wherever he finishes, but 2024 has already been his best year yet. At the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in July, he finished eighth in a $3,000 buy-in event for $133,479.