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PRAGUE


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The sporting hand shake... Winner Roberto (left) thanks Marcin Horecki on a great match ...whilst Emillano Bono (centre) looks on!


Welsh pro Roberto Romanello secured his fi rst major title when he came out on top at EPT Prague in December. He picked up the €640,000 fi rst prize after beating Italian Emiliano Bono heads-up.


e2,730,550 prize pool. The 34-year-old from Swansea said: “I’ve been trying to do this for a very long time. This means everything to me”. Still wearing the lucky wig that he bought at EPT


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Snowfest last season, Romanello added that the massive support he’d received throughout the fi ve-day event had given him the drive to win. Prior to Prague, Romanello’s best EPT fi nish


was sixth place at last season’s EPT Copenhagen. He also cashed at EPT Barcelona fi nishing in 39th place earning e15,000. He took up poker while recovering from a sporting injury and since turning professional in 2005 has nearly $900,000 in live tournament earnings. His Prague victory puts him in third place in the Wales All Time Money List.


Polish Team PokerStars Pro Marcin Horecki


made a heroic bid for the Prague title and fought hard at the fi nal, but was ultimately eliminated by Bono in third place, earning e247,000. This was Horecki’s seventh EPT cash and second EPT fi nal table. In Season 5, the former ski champion came third at EPT London earning a £303,439 payday.


said: “I’ve been trying to do this for a very long time. This means everything to me...


’’ 8 Poker Europa | FEBRUARY 2011 | www.PokerEuropaOnline.com ‘‘ The 34-year-old from Swansea


As well as the Main Event, there were 19 side events including a Czechs-only e10,000 freeroll to celebrate the country’s victory in the best country category at last year’s EPT Awards. Team PokerStars Pro Martin Hruby as well as Martin Kabrhel and last season’s EPT Prague champion Jan Skampa were among the 13 entrants.


Sweden’s Nichlas Mattson won the


e10,000 event earning e127,000 after beating Irish pro John O’Shea


heads-up. Team PokerStars Pro Max Lykov fi nished best in a 68-strong fi eld to win the e1,000 NLH, earning e24,400.


Croatian pro Hana Soljan won the e330 NLH Ladies Event and a fi rst prize of e3,750 after beating EPT Tallinn winner Anastasiia Syvak, from Lativia, heads-up. Portuguese businessman Fernando Britto, won the last event of EPT Prague, the e1k Turbo Random Bounty event.


There were 563 players from 47


countries who competed in the e5,300 Main Event creating a


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