Results for tag: WPT Venice Grand Prix
Posted by:
Yorky Pud
on Feb 14, 2012 at 12:41:17 PM
On Monday a total of 155 poker players passed through the doors of the oldest running casino in the world, the Casino Di Venezia, and exchanged €4,950 for 30,000 tournament chips and the chance to join the likes of Phil Ivey, and Gus Hansen in becoming a World Poker Tour champion.
For 149 of them the dream has ended but for the six men who have reached the televised final table the dream is certainly still alive and in around 24 hours time one of them will indeed be crowed WPT Venice Grand Prix champion. The man who they all have to catch when the tournament resumes at 1400 CET on Friday is Andrea Dato who ended the penultimate day with 1,591,000 chips, the only player to pass the one million chip barrier..
The name Dato may ring a bell with some of you and it should because in...
Posted by:
Yorky Pud
on Feb 14, 2012 at 12:40:15 PM
He may not be a household name in any sense of the word but Rinat Bogdanov has earned a place amongst poker's elite. How and why? By winning a World Poker Tour Main Event, the WPT Venice Grand Prix to be exact.
Until the €4,950 WPT Venice Grand Prix Main Event Bogdanov only had three cashes worth a combined $14,773 to his name, but now he has an extra €229,800 to his name after his epic win.
The financial trader started the final table third from six in chips and stuck to his game plan perfectly, to play tightly and try to move up in the payout places. it may not have been the most ideal of strategies but it certainly worked for him.
The €32,195 he was guaranteed at the start of the day was soon increased as Andrea Carini was eliminated in sixth place. Carini decided to three-bet...