Swedish Player Ragnar Astrom Wins World Poker Tour in Venice

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DATE : Mon, 18 May 2009 07:38:17 -0700
Entered in Database : 2009-05-18 14:38:17
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Last week, 397 players competed for more than $2 million in prize money in the first ever World Poker Tour® event in Italy, WPT Venice, powered by bwin. The €4,000 tournament kicked off May 6 at Casino di Venezia with a diverse international playing field, including poker pros Carlos Mortensen, Vanessa Rousso, Chad Brown, Surinder Sunar, Steve Sung, Patrick Bruel or Max 'the Italian Pirate' Pescatori.After five days of play, 22-year old Ragnar Astrom took home more than $542,000, a $25,000 seat in the WPT World Championship in Las Vegas, and an official WPT bracelet on Sunday when he defeated fellow Swede, Martin Jacobson. Jacobson received $325,000 as runner-up, and Frenchman Vincent Pasdeloup placed third to win $217,000, having reached the final table after qualifying for WPT Venice as a freeroll qualifier on bwin."This was our first event with World Poker Tour, and we are delighted with how well things worked out", said Manfred Bodner, Co-CEO of bwin. "The combination of the online and offline player experience coupled with the information systems and being able to offer bets on the tournament adds a whole new dimension to both sides."In addition to holding the event in the oldest casino in the world, bwin developed and introduced a Live Tournament Information System, which provided real-time streaming information such as leaderboards and bust-out updates throughout the tournament.The May 10 final table was videostreamed live, and bets on the final table were offered on bwin.com, including overall winner bets, country bets and head-to-head bets.Click here to play

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