Italian Poker Players - Dario Minieri, Jeff Lisandro, Max Pescatori, Marco Traniello, Luca Pagano, Dario Alioto (Paperback)

Chapters: Dario Minieri, Jeff Lisandro, Max Pescatori, Marco Traniello, Luca Pagano, Dario Alioto. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dario Minieri (Italian pronunciation: born 1985) is an Italian professional poker player from Rome, Italy who won a bracelet at the 2008 World Series of Poker at the age of 23, is a member of team PokerStars, is an online poker player who was the first person to collect enough Frequent Player Points to buy an automobile with them, and is a three-time European Poker Tour final tablist. Minieri, a top ranked online professional poker player, who plays on PokerStars under his own name "Dariominieri," is known for being a high-stakes heads-up specialist with the site's highest rank of Supernova Elite and he became the first person ever to buy a car, a 2007 Porsche Cayman S, with Frequent Player Points (over 3 million). On January 27, 2008, Minieri won PokerStars $5,200 (winner-takes-all) Freezeout, a 20 player tournament in which the winner takes the $100,000 prize barring any deals. When the game was left with two players, known as heads-up play, Minieri and his opponent Isaac Baron requested that the game pause to look over a deal; the deal was offered based on their chip equity with $25,000 by rule set aside for the winner. Baron, who was down to a 3-1 chip deficit demanded a larger portion of the chop with the majority going to Minieri. When the deal was refused by Minieri, he went on to win the entire $100,000. Minieri has cashed four times at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). At the 2007 WSOP Main Event, Minieri, who once was the chip leader coming off of day 3, finished in 96th place out of a field of 6358 entries. The next year, Minieri won his first bracelet at the 2008 WSOP in the $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em S...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=16698781