ITALIAN DELIGHT AT WSOP WIN (Update)
20 June 2008
Italian Internet ace achieves first bracelet
Another top Internet poker player, the 23-year-old
Italian ace Dario Minieri, has scored his first World
Series of Poker gold bracelet after winning Event 31 -
the $2 500 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em competition.
Minieri becomes only the second Italian - the first was
Max Pescatori - to win one of the coveted WSOP
bracelets.
1 012 players entered for the event, which provided
fast-paced entertainment and excitement with plenty of
changes in fortune and an abundance of aggressive poker,
at which the young Italian excelled.
The final table comprised Minieri, who held a more than
half a million chip lead over his nearest rival, Kevin
Song, Justin Filtz, Stuart Marshak, John O'Shea from
Dublin, Ireland and Seth Fischer.
The heads up was decided when Justin Filtz headed for
the exit in third place, eliminated by Fischer and
collecting a paycheck of $214 139. That left Minieri
across the table from Seth Fischer and at that stage
with a chip disadvantage. Minieri has admitted that it's
the sort of challenge he relishes, and he proved it by
winning and losing pots but relentlessly closing in on
Fischer to ultimately truimph in the 198th hand.
The reward was substantial, with a main prize of $528
418 and the bracelet, something that Minieri has strived
for in two previous WSOP appearances, when he cashed in
the two Main Events but didn't make the final table in
either.
Fischer's second place finish was worth $330 519, and
respect for a game played with intelligence and talent
but lacking in good fortune on the day.
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