EMOTIONAL OVERLOAD: ROMANELLO CAPTURES EPT PRAGUE; WEARS HEART ON HIS SLEEVE

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Usually poker tournament players go through such a grind for a 4 or 5 tournament that they have no emotions left once they capture an important title - luckily, this was not the case for EPT Prague winner Robert Romanello.

In fact, once Romanello's hand was raised in victory, every emotion came out. He tried to hide the tears of emotion rolling down his cheeks but couldn't - and it was such a refreshing site to see. Winning a major title such as a EPT tournament should be emotional, and Romanello proved it! Congratulations on reminding us that poker players have emotions, and aren't just robots making standard raises, calls, or folds, Roberto!

More than half of the players in the Top 18 scored for at least a second time on the PTPR circuit this season. Three players (Rob Hollink, Richard Toth and Salvatore Bonavena) scored for the fourth time while Kevin MacPhee scored for the fifth time this season!

For money results from EPT Prague, see below.


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
European Poker Tour Prague
EPT Main Event
December 13-18, 2010

Hilton Hotel
Prague, Czech Republic

Buy-in: $6,411
Prizepool: $3,609,796
Entries: 563


FINAL RESULTS
ROMANELLO ROBERTO 130
BONO EMILIANO 80
HORECKI MARCIN 50
SKRIPKA PETER 40
LEONZIO MARCO 35
BENDIK JAN 30
BEVAND MANUEL 30
NULLI ROBERTO 15
MACPHEE KEVIN 15
LOSEV NIKOLAY 15
PAVEL ION 15
WEISNER MELANIE 13
KIPNIS DENIS 13
HOLLINK ROB 13
TOTH RICHARD 13
RODRIGUEZ SERGIO 10
BONAVENA SALVATORE 10
SOULEIMAN JEAN SAMI 10


TOP 24 MONEY RESULTS (IN EURO)...
1 - Roberto Romanello, UK, €640,000
2 - Emiliano Bono, Italy, €435,000
3 - Marcin Horecki, Poland, €247,000
4 - Peter Skripka, Russia, €163,000
5 - Marco Leonzio, Italy, €130,000
6 - Jan Bendik, Slovakia, €100,000
7 - Manuel Bevand, France, €71,000
8 - Roberto Nulli, Italy, €54,550
9 - Kevin MacPhee, USA, €40,000
10 - Nikolay Losev, Russia, €40,000
11 - Ion Pavel, Romania, €30,000
12 - Melanie Weisner, USA, €30,000
13 - Denis Kipnis, Russia, €25,000
14 - Rob Hollink, Netherlands, €25,000
15 - Richard Toth, Hungary, €20,000
16 - Sergio Rodriguez Sanchez, Spain, €20,000
17 - Salvatore Bonavena, Italy, €15,000
18 - Jean Sami Souleiman, Lebanon, €15,000
19 - Haykel Cherif Vidal, Spain, €15,000
20 - Andrea Ferrari, Italy, €15,000
21 - Josh Prager, United States, €15,000
22 - Zoltan Szabo, Hungary, €15,000
23 - Ludovic Marguerat, Switzerland, €15,000
24 - Helen Prager, USA, €15,000