Final Table Bios: Seat 8, Sergey Shcherbatskiy (349,000)
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Hometown: Ufa, Russia
All the way from the city of Ufa in the Ural Mountains of Russia, Sergey Shcherbatskiy will carry 349,000 chips to the final table, a mere 10,000 fewer than the chip-leader Dario Minieri. "I don't believe it," he said. "I'm surrounded by all these professional players!" It's already a remarkable story for Shcherbatskiy: he qualified via the PokerStars "steps" tournaments, buying in at level one for only $7.50, and is playing in his first major live tournament having taken up the game a little less than two years ago. Married to Antonina, who is hearing his progress in regular phone-calls home, Shcherbatskiy will also find some support from the punters in the two sports bars he owns in his hometown.
All bios courtesy of PokerStars.com