Salvatore Bonavena Becomes First Italian EPT Champion
570 players took to the felt for the Poker Stars European Poker Tour including Sebastian Ruthenberg, Nenad Medic and Luca Pagano (among others). A grand total of 56 players made bank in the tourney which was played at the Prague Hilton in the capital of the Czech Republic. The final table was a melting pot with three Italians, a Canadian, a Finn, a Spaniard and a representative from Greece.
Salvatore Bonavena walked into the final table with the chip lead and exited as the winner after defeating fellow countryman Massimo Di Cicco heads-up. Bonavena (44) became the first Italian to win an EPT tournament.
Here are the final results:
1) Salvatore Bonavena - €774,000 2) Massimo Di Cicco - €445,000 3) Andrew Alan Chen - €257,000 4) Francesco Cirianni - €166,000 6) Fredrik Nygard - €130,000 7) Nasr El Nasr - €99,500 8) Raul Mestre - €71,800
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