Over the last couple of months, Lord Alan Sugar has whittled down the 18 candidates who started the process and Mr Poulton has survived to the final five.
The 34-year-old was one of the oldest of this year's bunch of hopefuls, but his experience may have helped put him within sniffing distance of the coveted quarter of a million pound investment.
Mr Poulton impressed when he was appointed project manager in the seventh week of the competition and won a task which required the teams to open a discount store in Manchester.
Since then it's been a difficult few weeks; the father-of-one has found himself on the losing side on three consecutive occasions and has had his share of narrow escapes in the board room.
Lord Sugar himself has expressed reservations that the Aston University graduate may be too "corporate" to be his business partner.
Deliberating who should be given their marching orders in Wednesday night's instalment, the former Amstrad boss said: "I've been around for a long time, I've been in business for nearly 50 years, and of course I've come across a lot of Garys... I worry you lack entrepreneurial spirit."
In the end, Mr Poulton escaped by the skin of his teeth, earning a spot in the show's notorious "interview week."
All of the remaining candidates will now have their business proposition prodded, poked and possibly torn to shreds by four of Lord Sugar's closest confidantes. Only two will go on to claim a place in the grand final.
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