Thirty-year-old poker pro Jack Salter from London / United Kingdom considers himself as a “gambler” and the Brit is third on the British all-time money list with more than $6.3 million in cashes. With several wins in Side Events, Salter is still looking for a big victory on the live poker circuit despite all of his success thus far.
Salter has three previous WSOP final table appearances to his name with cashes totaling $2,341,642. He finished runner-up to Scott Davies in the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific Main Event for A$516,960. In 2016, the Brit came 6th in Event #39: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship and 4th in Event #67: High Roller for One Drop - $111,111 No-Limit Hold'em for $1,536,666, his biggest payday so far.
Twitter: @jackziyang
Road to the Final Table:
Day 1: 48,400 – 221/337
Day 2: 345,000 – 15/135
Day 3: 1,396,000 – 2/46
Day 4: 2,125,000 – 6/12
Marti Roca De Torres is a 36-year-old former economics teacher and poker pro, born in Barcelona and currently lives in Matarzo / Catalunya. He has earned $30,712 for his efforts so far with a biggest payday of $7,866 and qualified for the event through online satellites at 888poker.
Roca De Torres has one prior WSOP cash to date after finishing 114th in the € 1,100 No Limit Hold'em - Little One for One Drop (Event #8) for €1,660, and he will best that score by far at this final table.
Twitter: @IquinzePuigmal
Road to the Final Table:
Day 1: 55,100 – 198/337
Day 2: 148,500 – 83/135
Day 3: 524,000 – 23/46
Day 4: 3,260,000 – 3/12
Dutchman Mathijs Jonkers lives in his home country in Ermelo and is 27 years old. He is the owner of the open Dutch Championship of Poker, an amateur poker championship with more than 10,000 players competing each year in an individual and team championship. Jonkers is friends with Marcel Luske, who was on the rail for the late stages of the tournament to support his countryman.
Jonkers doesn't have any WSOP cash yet and mostly plays in €100-€500 tournaments with cashes of $8,580 so far. He was one of the most interactive and talkative players at the tables, exchanging jokes and banter with his opponents.
Twitter: @mathijsjonkers
Road to the Final Table:
Day 1: 102,100 – 71/337
Day 2: 367,500 – 12/135
Day 3: 659,000 – 13/46
Day 4: 1,850,000 – 9/12
Robert Bickley is 29 years old and works in the manufacturing industry. He was born in Bristol, and currently lives in Manchester / United Kingdom. With the new structure of the WSOPE Main Event in Rozvadov, players were able to re-enter once and enter the tournament before the start of Day 2. The Brit was among those to take advantage of that and signed up before the cards got underway for Day 2.
Bickley has three WSOP cashes for a total of $9,654 and his total live earnings include $75,871 with all results split between Las Vegas and two tiny scores in Recurring Tournaments in Manchester back in 2016.
Road to the Final Table:
Day 1: 50,000 - Registered before Start of Day 2
Day 2: 195,000 – 63/135
Day 3: 1,431,000 – 1/46
Day 4: 2,885,000 – 4/12
Maria Ho is 34 years old, born in Taiwan and lives in Los Angeles / USA. She graduated from the University of California, San Diego in the summer of 2005 with a major in Communications and a minor in Law, and started playing poker in her second year of college.
Ho is a professional poker player and TV host for eSports and poker. She has three prior WSOP final table appearances to her name and came close to a victory in Event #4: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em back in 2011 after finishing runner-up to Allen Bari for a career-best score of $540,020.
Twitter: @MariaHo
Road to the Final Table:
Day 1: 88,900 – 101/337
Day 2: 51,000 – 128/135
Day 3: 391,000 – 32/46
Day 4: 3,575,000 – 1/12
Gianluca Speranza is 30 years of age and was born in L'Aquila / Italy, but currently resides in Vienna / Austria along with other Italian poker pros such as Mustapha Kanit. The poker pro has already racked up more than $880,000 in cashes on the international poker circuit, including 11 WSOP cashes for a total of $221,288.
Speranza already came close to winning a WSOP bracelet in 2011 after finishing 2nd to Andrew Hinrichsen in a €1,000 Event of the WSOPE in Cannes, taking home €91,262 for his efforts.
Road to the Final Table:
Day 1: 119,800 – 48/337
Day 2: 408,000 – 6/135
Day 3: 655,000 – 14/46
Day 4: 1,070,000 – 10/12
Niall Farrell was the first player from Scotland to win a WSOP bracelet a few days ago at the King's Casino in Rozvadov. The 30 year old professional poker player from Dumfries was the eighth player to earn the live Triple Crown with victories in the EPT, WPT and the WSOP.
His impressive poker resume with 36 prior WSOP cashes for $2,283,405 in total saw him take down Event #9: €25,000 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller for his first WSOP bracelet and a payday of €745,287 earlier in the series, besting a field of the biggest names on the live poker circuit.
Twitter: @Firaldo87poker
Road to the Final Table:
Day 1: 66,200 – 166/337
Day 2: 240,000 – 51/135
Day 3: 745,000 – 10/46
Day 4: 3,575,000 – 2/12
Luis Rodriguez Cruz was born in Spain and currently lives in Espoo / Finland. He is 32 years old and a professional poker player. The Spaniard has earned nearly $500,000 in cashes on the international poker circuit thus far including a victory in the £2,200 WPT Main Event at the Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham for £200,000 in November 2016.
Rodriguez only has one WSOP result prior to this final table and that was a third place in Event #23: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed back in 2012. He took home $222,511 for his efforts out of a 924-entry strong field.
Twitter: @Turko_man
Road to the Final Table:
Day 1: 50,000 - Re-Entered before Start of Day 2
Day 2: 228,500 – 52/135
Day 3: 669,000 – 12/46
Day 4: 2,020,000 – 7/12
Marti Roca De Torres raised to 175,000 from under the gun and Stepan Osinovski from two seats gave it plenty of consideration, then counted his stack.
The clock was called on him and Osinovski then three-bet to 550,000. Roca De Torres moved all in and Osinovski asked for a count, which was determined to be for 2,890,000, before calling it off for 2,855,000 himself after a lot of consideration including the clock being called on him the second time during the hand.
Stepan Osinovski:
Marti Roca De Torres:
After the flop, Osinovski had a back door sweat, but that was all over after the turn to make the river a formality. He is a sales manager back home in Russia and qualified for this event through the satellites on partypoker after earning a ticket through the rakeback program.
Osinovski is an online player that can be found on the Spin & Go tables and had $693 in live cashes only, while also being a decent chess player as well. The Russian will skyrocket his earnings on the live circuit after collecting €74,737 for his efforts.
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flop, Osinovski had a back door sweat, but that was all over after the 
turn to make the 
river a formality. He is a sales manager back home in Russia and qualified for this event through the satellites on partypoker after earning a ticket through the rakeback program.
