The Venice leg of the PokerStars Italian Poker Tour has been won by a Hungarian player who has only been playing poker for four years. Tamas Lendvai showed no signs of inexperience though, as he came out on top of a 505 strong field, to land the €235,000 first prize.
Lendvai came into the PokerStars sponsored event in decent form, having cashed in this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event. It hasn’t been a bad last twelve months for the Hungarian either, with cashes at the North American Poker Tour back in January and at a European Poker Tour event in London, last October. The success of Lendvai in Venice though, far surpasses anything achieved in his poker career to date, almost trebling his total tournament earnings in one fell swoop.
Lendvai’s story is made especially interesting by the fact that he not only entered the final table as the shortest stack, but at one point during the third day of the tournament, he only had enough poker chips to cover seven big blinds! Old though it may be, it seems as though the “chip and chair” poker cliché is completely true.
The incredible comeback was completed when Lendvai shoved all in pre flop holding K-T, to find himself called by his heads up opponent Davide Cerrato, who held A-5. The flop brought no help for the Hungarian, but a King on the turn and a blank river ensured the Venice leg of the PokerStars Italian Poker Tour would be won in fairytale fashion.
Italian player Cerrato came to the table as one of the chip leaders and his second place effort earned him €147,000 in consolation prize money. Third place went to Giovanni La Padula, also from Italy, who took home €88,000 – not a bad return bad from his first ever live poker tournament.
The most recognisable name featured in the final eight was Ali Tekitamgac, winner of the World Poker Tour event in Barcelona back in May. The German player brought the largest chip stack to the final table in Venice, but could only finish in fifth place, earning €46,000 in the process.
San Remo will be the venue for the next PokerStars Italian Poker Tour event, a €2,000 + €200 No Limit Hold’em tournament which gets underway in a little under two weeks time.
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