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<\/p>\nAndrea Dato made it third time lucky at the WPT Venice Carnival 2014 main event, defeating Britain’s Sam Trickett heads-up for the title and \u20ac105,000, after having made the final table twice before in 2011 and 2012.<\/p>\n
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Trickett, who signed a sponsorship deal with Everest Poker earlier this week, held an almost 3:1 chip lead when heads-up play began but after a two-hour duel it was the Italian who earned the single largest cash of his career.<\/p>\n
The two battled for four levels and took turns exchanging the chip lead but in level 30 (50,000\/100,000\/15,000), Dato doubled through Trickett and pulled out to a 10-1 chip lead. Soon after Trickett moved all-in holding KC-7C, Dato calling with the 10S-2H. Trickett was ahead, but the 5H-4S-2C flop paired Dato. A 9S on the turn was of no consequence and neither was the 5C on the river.<\/p>\n
Trickett was eliminated in second place for \u20ac66,000, while Dato captured a WPT title and a seat into the WPT World Championship at the Borgata Hotel in April.<\/p>\n
An hour into the final table Sotirios Koutoupas was the first player eliminated. He moved all in on the turn holding an open-ended straight draw and Dato called him holding top pair. The river blanked and Koutoupas left in sixth place.<\/p>\n
A few hands later Alessio Isaia moved all in pre-flop after being crippled by Maurizio Saieva. Trickett called holding Q-9 and was ahead of Isaia\u2019s 8-6. The flop fell Trickett\u2019s way with Q-Q-9 for a flopped full house and Isaia was out in fifth place.<\/p>\n
Next to go was Mario Vojvoda who fell victim to another Q-Q-9 flop that went Trickett’s way. Vojvoda bet 70,000, Trickett min-raised to 140,000, Vojvoda made it 280,000 and Trickett called. The turn brought a jack and Vojvoda check-shoved all-in. Trickett called with Q-8 for trip queens. Vojvoda tabled pocket jacks for a turned full house, but an eight on the river shipped the pot to Trickett.<\/p>\n
Three-handed lasted for an hour before a short-stacked Saieva shoved holding A-J and Trickett called holding 6-4. The board ran 8-7-6-Q-K and Saieva was eliminated.<\/p>\n
WPT Venice Main Event<\/strong> Andrea Dato made it third time lucky at the WPT Venice Carnival 2014 main event, defeating Britain’s Sam Trickett heads-up for the title and \u20ac105,000, after having made the final table twice before in 2011 and 2012. Trickett, who signed a sponsorship deal with Everest Poker earlier this week, held an almost 3:1 chip lead…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1st\tAndrea Dato\t\u20ac105,000
\n2nd\tSam Trickett\t\u20ac66,000
\n3rd\tMaurizio Saieva\t\u20ac42,000
\n4th\tMario Vojvoda\t\u20ac31,000
\n5th\tAlessio Isaia\t\u20ac24,000
\n6th\tSotirios Koutoupas\t\u20ac19,400<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"