Event 9 (Flight J): Climbing Up The Ranks

Event 9 ($350 No Limit Hold'em $300,000 Guarantee)
Level 6 (Blinds 150/300/50)
Total Flight J Entries: 139
Players Remaining: 101

Zoltan Czinkota (Davie, FL)

Table 11 sits right in front of the media podium, so the banter from the tables is easily audible from that distance.  The table hosts a handful of notables (Evan Teitelbaum, Ory Hen, Michael Newman, Martin Robbins), and with the close knit poker community that Florida, those notables haven't stopped the needling and joking around.  Then walked over Zoltan Czinkota (Davie, FL), and the table erupted with applause.

Zoltan is a Florida based tournament pro, who is in the midst of his best year of poker in his career.  The (23) cashes this year gives him a ranking of 62nd in the world for the 2016 calendar, while the earnings that come along with those cashes has him in the top one thousand for the year.  Of those (23) cashes, three of them are from the WSOP, one WPT (Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood), and one WPT Deepstacks (Seminole Hard Rock Tampa). 

While the mood at the table was jovial when Czinkota first sat down, things have been all business for Zoltan ever since.