Player Profiles: Seat 4: Marius-Catalin Pertea
Seven years ago, Marius Pertea fell just short of reaching the final table in Monte Carlo; he bowed out in 11th place after losing with king-jack to Davidi Kitai's queen-jack.
We haven��t seen too much of Pertea thereafter. He wasn't around for a few years in the post-Covid seasons, but has now returned to the big stage and done so in style.
Pertea won a seat to the EPT Barcelona 2024 Main Event online at PokerStars. And after busting that first bullet, he opted to re-enter paying the full buy-in. It turned out to be a fantastic decision as he's now locked up the first six-figure prize of his career.
The 44-year-old construction industry entrepreneur has called poker his hobby for the past 12 or 13 years. He plays mostly home games, but when he decides to travel for poker, it��s almost exclusively to EPTs. Now he has a chance of making his mark on the tour should he become Romania's second EPT champion after Razvan Belea.