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The Poker Grapevine – Roberto Romanello Comes Close to Winning Own Event
Posted by: Randy Williams - Mon, 2013-01-21 12:30
About a week ago we featured a piece about Roberto Romanello and his invention: the Multi Prize-Pool
poker tournament, which was going to be put to the test shortly. Well, the first ever MPP event is in the books and not only did it turned out to be quite a success indeed, Romanello almost won it.
The scene of the event was the Dusk Till Dawn Poker and Casino in Nottingham and the starting field was 177 players strong. Although many of the registrants were unknowns curious to give the new tournament format a try, there were quite a few “name” players in the starting field as well. Sam Trickett played, together with Romanello himself of course, Simon Deadman and Ben Vinson.
The event featured a £5k guarantee, but the resulting prize-pool was a much bigger one. Every one of the entrants played for the £25 prize-pool, 111 of them played for the £50 prize-pool and 64 qualified for the £100 prize-pool. The story of the event was obviously Roberto Romanello’s deep run. Romanello made it all the way to the heads-up stage of the event, where he got bounced by Brian Sheppard. The winner had bought into every one of the prize-pools, so he ended up taking down a little over £3k.
In other news: the British
online poker scene has a new top dog in Rick Trigg, who stitched together a rather unbelievable Sunday tournament run to clinch the top spot in the rankings.
Trigg won the Sunday Brawl, another of the weekend majors at PokerStars and a $60k guaranteed re-buy event at Full Tilt Poker. He made several deep runs too: he finished 5th in the $215 Second Chance event and he finished 6th in the Sunday 500.
