Simone Andrian Ensures WPT Prime San Remo Trophy Stays in Italy
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Picturesque San Remo was awash with poker players competing in the WPT Prime San Remo Main Event. A field of 838 entrants exchanged €1,100 for the chance to become a World Poker Tour champion, creating a €787,720 prize pool as they did so.
The top 106 finishers helped themselves to a slice of the pie. The likes of Alessio Isaia, Kalidou Sow, and William Dorey were among those who cashed but failed to reach the nine-handed final table, in what was an Italian-dominated field.
WPT Prime San Remo Main Event Final Table Results
| Rank | Player | Country | Prize (EUR) | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Simone Andrian | Italy | $147,200 | $157,973* |
| 2 | Aristidis Theodoridis | Italy | $90,000 | $96,705 |
| 3 | Giuseppe Zarbo | France | $65,000 | $69,843 |
| 4 | Bruno Compagna | Italy | $50,000 | $52,725 |
| 5 | Kevin O'Donnell | United States | $37,000 | $39,757 |
| 6 | Maher Achour | Tunisia | $29,000 | $31,161 |
| 7 | Ivan Kuziv | Ukraine | $22,000 | $23,639 |
| 8 | Dylan Kehoe | Ireland | $17,000 | $18,267 |
| 9 | Dario De Paz | Italy | $13,500 | $14,506 |
*first place includes a $10,400 seat to the 2023 WPT World Championship
Dario De Paz sat down at the final table with a 13 big blind stack. He was left with only three big blinds after running his pocket kings into the aces of Ireland's Dylan Kehoe, and despite double up, fell in ninth place two hands later.
Kehoe busted in eighth after getting his short stack in with king-ten on a king-high board, only for Aristidis Theodoridis to snap him off with a turned set of fours.
Ukraine's Ivan Kuziv crashed out in seventh on the 52nd hand of the final table. Start of the say chip leader Simone Andrian min-raised to 200,000 in the cutoff before calling the 2,500,000 shove from Kuziv in the big blind. Kuziv showed ace-king, Andrian pocket queens, and the five community cards were void of aces, kings, or unlikely straights.
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Mere minutes later, Maher Achour bowed out in sixth. Achour four-bet all-in for seven big blinds with ace-king, only for Theodoridis, the three-bettor, to call with pocket aces. No drama from the board, and Achour was gone.
The final five became four with the untimely demise of Kevin O'Donnell, who has sat down at the final table with the joint shortest stack. O'Donnell came unstuck on the 70th hand of the evening, pushing all-in for three big blinds with ace-six and never catching up against the dominating ace-queen of Theodoridis.
It took until midway through Level 29 for another player to find themselves void of chips. With blinds of 75,000/150,000/150,000a, Theodoridis made it 375,000 to go with king-eight of clubs, and called the 725,000 shove from Bruno Compagna, made with ace-six. The board gifted Comapgna a nine-high straight but also Theodoridis a club flush.
Heads-up was set before Compagna's seat had gone cold. Giuseppe Zarbo moved all-in with ace-nine for 15.5 big blinds, and Andrian called in the small blind with ace-jack. Zarbo picked up a straight draw, but it failed to arrive, as Andrian scooped the top after pairing his jack.
Andrian went into the heads-up clash with Theodoridis holding a 17,350,000 (116 big blinds) to 7,800,000 (52 big blinds) advantage, and the writing looked to be on the wall for the shorter stack. However, Theodoridis got lucky with king-five versus ace-queen to flip the battle on its head.
Andrian pulled level before nudging in front, and the tournament ended on the 15nd hand of the final table. Andrian min-raised to 500,000 and called the 4,500,000 shove from his opponent. It was ace-eight for Theodoridis but ace-king for Andrian. A king on the flop left Theodoridis drawing thin, with a six on the turn leaving him drawing dead.
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