Italians at the final table of the Main Event Wsop: here is the complete list

Wsop often turn into the USA against the rest of the world. In recent years, citizens of the old continent have also brought important bracelets to home. How much we went close to the big blow? Here is the history of the Italians at the final table of the Main Event Wsop

In the beginning it was candy

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The long march towards the election of the new world champion has begun in Las Vegas. The wsop main event will start on July 2nd and everyone dreams of the most important bracelet. At the tables there will be a lot of Italians. The tricolor has never won high in the sky for a success at $ 10,000 no-Limit Hold’em Main Event. In this kind of tournament, from over 10,000 participants, luck matters a lot and even for the most established professionals it is almost impossible to excel. Italy had to wait a little before remaining glued to the screen to follow a compatriot in the legendary “November Nine“: it was 2010 and for the first time the wall of the 7,000 members had broken down. Among them there was Filippo Candio who just had a short time before an important tournament on the Italian circuit. Candio ran the blue dream by climbing positions on positions before surrendering to the fourth place that he earned him a millionaire check!

Other Italians at the final table of the Main Event Wsop

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The 2010 Sardinian player exploit followed a few years later: in 2015 he touched a Federico Butteroni, Player not so known in the world of Italian poker since it was back from Australia. The Roman plays a nice poker but comes very short to the appointment with history. Its stack is approximately 6 million equal to 3.2% of the total chips at stake. Federico tries but he cannot set up the comeback of the century: eighth place for him and Italian dream postponed. We arrive at the Main Event of 2019 with Italy who had touched the victory in event 37: a deepstack that saw Marco Bognanni close second. In the last 9 we find Dario Sammartinoflagship of blue poker. Dario, who for the occasion wears a tuxedo, is not among the best Italians is among the world’s world tops. Is adrenaline in a thousand, is the first world champion title on arrival? “Sammarnuts “floated in 6th position But for him to change marches has never been a problem. Get to the head -to -head! The German Ensan, in the decisive hand, finds himself a couple of kings and Sammartino must surrender. Waiting for other Expolit only three Italians sat in the final table of the main WSOP