EPT San Remo High Roller: Benny Splinder won his 8th title
Aside from the main event that ended with the victory of Ludovic Lacay, the Italian stage of the ninth season of the European Poker Tour tournament had also a large scale tournament which is the 10,000 entry free High Roller. They were 84 players who joined the poker room of Casino San Remo to compete for the title of the tournament, creating a prize pool of 823,200 that was tie between the top 10 players. The verdict after a few days of meeting of the High Roller fall thus and resulted in the victory of the German Benny Spindler. Despite the presence of a number of marquee players on the final table, Splinder was simply fabulous. He ousted the American Kevin Stammen in the final duel long enough. As a reminder, he was also the winner of the No-Limit Hold'em Turbo side event of 2,100. For shis econd place, Stammen left with a prize of 200,000.
Splinder win therefore again after a few months of scarcity. In fact, his last performance was his greatest victory at the EPT London in September 2011. With this new achievement in Italy, the German embellished his bank account with a sum of 253,000 and added an eighth title at his prizelist. Note that he holds $ 3.5 million in tournament winnings now. Finalist in the main event of the World Series of Poker Europe Cannes, Joseph Cheong was among the finalists of this tournament of elites. Unfortunately, he failed to win the title and settled for the fourth place with a premium of 74,200. Specialist of High Roller tournament, Philipp Gruissem was also nominated but finished finally sixth.
Source: Oliver JOHNSON
Thursday, 18 October 2012
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