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Spanish Poker Tour Grand Finale fi nal table


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The poker year came to an exciting end with several large


tournaments. At the 2010 Spanish Poker Tour Grand Finale held at the Gran Casino Costa Brava in Lloret del Mar, 120 European poker players battled it out for a e360,000 prize pool - the biggest in Tour history. The poker year came to an exciting end with several large tournaments. At the 2010 Spanish Poker Tour Grand Finale held at the Gran Casino Costa Brava in Lloret del Mar, 120 European poker players battled it out for a e360,000 prize pool - the biggest in Tour history.


And, although there were


several high profi le Spanish players competing in the event, among them well known pros Raúl Páez, Catarina Santos and Javier Martinez Gil (2009 Spanish Poker Champion and winner of the 2010 SPT Ibiza) the top four were all from outside Spain.


Germany’s Marvin Rettenmaier dominated the fi nal table to


win the Main Event and cashed 111,000. Joining Marvin at the fi nal was the last woman standing, France’s Claire Renaut (2nd -  60,000) and two Dutch players the Live the Dream Team’s Koen de Bakker (3rd - 36,000) and defending 2009 SPT Champion, Team Everest’s


Steven van Zadelhoff (4th - 26,500).


Leo Truche, the Live the Dream


Team member from France who did not cash in the Main Event, took his vengeance by winning both the Side Event and the Fun Event in Lloret. Everest Poker invited the top players of the tour to play a 48,000 SPT MVP Freeroll (5 per cent of the Tour’s total prize-pool) on the eve of the Grand Finale. Spain’s Leo Margets (your correspondent’s favourite Spanish Poker Poster Pin Up) was the fi rst place fi nisher, taking home 15,500.


The tournament ended an excellent year for the Spanish Poker


Germany’s Marvin


Rettenmaier dominated the fi nal table to win the Main Event


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Tour and after the huge turnouts in Castellon, Sevilla and Lloret, the 2010 Spanish Poker Tour was the most successful ever.


Elsewhere Belgium’s Kevin


Vandermissen won the Full Tilt Poker Series Grand fi nal in Barcelona. After four days of play between 194 players Vandermissen dominated the fi nal table and went into the fi nal heads up against Switzerland’s Michael Schuerpf with a massive chip lead. As expected, the heads up didn’t last long and Vandermissen picked up the winner’s cheque for 150,000. Michael Schuerpf took home


100,000, the fourth time that he has cashed in international tournaments


while German Dominik Nitsche took 70,000 for third.


Down in Marbella brother and sister Miguel and Paqui Cortijo had a weekend to remember. On the Friday Deepstack Turbo tournament, Miguel, a well known and respected player at Casino Marbella, beat over 70 other


players for the win, took home over 4,000 for his victory, while on the Sunday it was the turn of sister Paqui, who took victory in the weekly Bounty Tournament and collected 2,600 in prize money. An excellent weekend for the family!


And fi nally, if you’re


looking for bit of Bellagio glamour but don’t want to fl y over to the States, then your prayers may have been answered. Benidorm announced that it wants to become the Las Vegas of Spain with a new initiative that will allow 4 and 5-star hotels to host mini-casinos inside their premises. The initiative was


proposed by Hosbec –


Benidorm’s hotel association and so far has received support from Benidorm’s town hall. Toni Mayor, Hosbec chief said:


Belgium’s Kevin


Vandermissen won the Full Tilt Poker Series


“It is important to do it as quickly as possible, as our future depends on attracting this type of tourist.” Vegas style glamour in Benidorm? I’ll keep you posted!


Wishing you all the best at the tables for 2011!


The fi ve day festival, which takes place in the Burlington Hotel in Dublin


on April 21st-25th has the largest schedule yet of events.


The Irish Open Main Event, a


3,200 + 300 NLH starts on 22nd April and will run for four days. Also included in the schedule of


events are a 750 PLO Championship, a 1,000 NLH, a 300 Ladies NLH Championship, a Turbo 300 and 200 NLH a 270 NLH Scalps Freezeout. Players can register and pay for all events via the online payment system which is available at www. irishpokeropen.com/register.


Weekly super satellites to the Irish Open 2011 Main Event take place on paddypowerpoker.com every Sunday and Tuesday with a variety of feeders running daily. Players who qualify on paddypowerpoker.com will be eligible for the Sole Survivor promotion where the longest lasting qualifi er will win 100,000 in addition to their tournament prize money.


PROGRAMM DER IRISH OPEN ANGEKÜNDIGT


Das fünftägige Festival fi ndet vom 21. bis 25. April im Dubliner Burlington


Hotel statt und wartet mit dem bisher umfangreichsten Programm auf. Der Startschuss für das Irish Open Main Event, ein 3.200 + 300 NLH, wird am 22. April fallen. Das Turnier läuft über vier Tage.


Darüber hinaus umfasst das Programm eine 750 PLO


Championship, ein 1.000 NLH, eine 300 Ladies NLH Championship, ein 300 NLH Turbo und ein 200 NLH


Turbo sowie ein 270 NLH Scalps Freezeout. Anmeldungen und Zahlungen


für sämtliche Events werden über das Online-Zahlungssystem entgegengenommen. Dieses steht auf www.irishpokeropen.com/register zur Verfügung. Auf paddypowerpoker.com fi nden immer sonntags und dienstags Supersatelliten zum Irish Open Main Event 2011 statt, zu denen es wiederrum tägliche Feeders gibt. Wer sich auf paddypowerpoker.


com qualifi ziert, nimmt automatisch an der Sole Survivor Promotion teil, bei der das Turnierpreisgeld des am längsten überlebenden Qualifi kanten um 100.000 aufgebessert wird.


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