One of four Germans remaining in the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event entering Day 7, Kilian Kramer was in the most difficult position of the quartet when play resumes. Kramer came to the final three tables with 3.175 million in chips, 25th on the table but well-equipped to do damage should a good hand come around. He ended up in 18th place for $325,000.

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Kramer has been active in the European poker community since 2010. Kramer “broke his duck” by winning a €400 Turbo No Limit Hold’em tournament on the preliminary schedule for the European Poker Tour’s stop in Prague in 2010. The very next year, Kramer earned his first ever WSOP cash in a $1,500 NLHE tournament (finishing 141st out of a 2,500-player field).

Since 2012, Kramer has been a fixture on the European scene while occasionally coming to the United States for the WSOP. His best ever cash came in a preliminary event during the EPT Season IX stop in San Remo, Italy, where Kramer picked up €68,200 in 2012 and, on the WSOP stage, he had earned another six cashes including two in 2015. His 27 cashes from 2010 to 2015 has resulted in $445,695 in career tournament earnings.

The later stages of Day 6 weren’t kind to Kramer, but as he demonstrated in recovering from this setback, he has the tools to climb the ladder. Battling countryman Fedor Holz on an Ad-8s-5s-7s-10s board, Kramer had to muck on the river to Holz after putting more than 1.3 million chips in on the previous streets, demonstrating a restraint that many lack. Sitting at that time with 2.6 million in chips, Kramer was able to recover from that setback to his position for Day 7’s play.

Although he may not be as recognizable as his countrymen Holz, Anton Morgenstern, and Alexander Turyansky, Kramer has a chance to put his name in as one of the next great German players. A run to the November Nine would put the exclamation point on that ascension.