EPT San Remo Breaks Player Record
April 22, 2009
The European Poker Tour currently been held in San Remo broke the record for hosting the most players ever.
The first day of the tournament 1A hosted under 500 players who joined professionals alike at the felts, with the second starter day 1B offering a massive 600 player boost to the numbers.
The participation figures for day 1B took the final number of players to 1,178 players, breaking the previous record for participation numbers for the European based tournament.
With such a large turn out for the live tournament, the prize pool grew to a staggering 5.7 million euros, with first place taking 1.5 million euros home.
The tournament featured a huge array of players with poker greats, professionals and bracelet holders gracing the felts.
With such a mixed ability level taking their seat at the felts, there was bound to be some shocks and exciting action for the spectators to see.
One of these shocks was watching Dario Minieri moving all in with A/Q only to come up against A/A.
As the hand played through Minieri found himself behind as the flop fell, hitting a Q, little did he know that the hand was covered at this point, with the hand ending with his opponent taking the pot due to an ace high flush, narrowly missing out on an ace high straight flush.
As with many of the live tournaments, events happen that are unforeseen, with Minieri been hottly tipped to build on his final table finish last year.
One thing is for sure, watching this tournament will give all poker fans and fanatics a racing heart, watching the game unfold.
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