Player profile: David Mandt

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Name: David Mandt

Age: 58

Occupation: Stock trader

Resides: East Gull Lake, MN

Favorite local tournament: $230 weekly Saturday event at Running Aces

Poker accomplishments: Had two huge cashes in 2009 — a second place finish in the Heartland Poker Tour Mille Lacs event for $31,604, and an 11th-place finish in World Series of Poker event 11 ($2,000 NLH) for $41,640.

Future plans: Wants to take another stab at the WSOP, specifically the Main Event.

“There’s so many good players out there, I don’t have any expectations to do what I did last year,”Mandt says, “but I’d love to take another shot”