Full Tilt poker news articles are currently full with reports of their pros winning at various major events and tournaments in 2011. with Michael Tureniec winning the main event at the EPT Copenhagen and Alessio Isaia the title of WPT Venice, it is definitely a time to celebrate for Full Tilt!
Full Tilt poker news articles- Michael Tureniec’s victory
Michael Tureniec from FullTiltPoker has won the prize money of $685,000 at the main event of the EPT Copenhagen 2011. This six day prestigious event had attracted as many as 449 players with a prize pool of as much as $2.7 million. Full Tilt pro Michael started at the final table with a chip stack at the fifth place but he held more than two thirds of these chips by the time he went to play against Per Linde for heads up. The players battled it out for more than three hours before Michael won the tournament and the prize money at the main event. Having had the advantage of his chips throughout the tournament, he had always looked to be the favourite. However, Per survived two all ins which managed to double up his stack in no time.
The third time, however, Michael claimed the victory. At the final hand, Michael went all in with his As-Jc that got an instant call from his opponent who had a pocket 7s. The cards at the board had been 2c, 3d, 5c, Jd and 4c. the turn card give Michael his biggest victory in tournament during his career.
Full Tilt poker news articles- Alessio Isaia’s victory
Alessio Isaia won the World Poker Tour’s championship title at WPT Venice 2011. He is also the first ever Italian to win the champion title at WPT. This poker pro earned a cool first prize of 380,000 Euros after a memorable heads up battle which went on for over eight hours. The event had been held in Venice at the Casinio Di Venezia with 523 players entering the event. The tournament saw Alessio in the leading position after day one. He also managed to reach the finale table with the second highest chips.
However, by the time the www.FullTiltPoker.net tournament went heads up, Alessia had just 2,800,000 while the opponent had 12,865,000 chips. It took him more than eight hours to get the title from the opponent from Hungary and finally emerged as the champion and winner after the opponent went all in with Qc and 6c. Alessio called with his Ah and Qd. The board showed Jc 3h 2s 4s 8c and both missed and the championship title went o Alessio. The victory was the largest for his career, taking his career to the next level.