The Mediterranean Deepstack Poker Championship II in Casino Portoroz, Slovenia has just finished. 150 players made the trip to the beautiful Slovenian coast resort of Portoroz to take part in D4 Events 50,000 chip deep stack tournament. This was double the amount of players that attended in 2010 and great indication that this fabulous new poker destination is only going to get more popular.
Over 90% of the field travelled from afar to this event with players attending from England, Ireland, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Croatia, Italy, Latvia, Bosnia, Canada and The USA.
By the time the final table was set it was the Belgian's who has the upper hand. 5 of them made the final nine and all of those lasted until only 6 players remained. Anthony Rodrigues entered the day as a big chip leader with almost 1/3 of the chips in play. He was busted by the Day 1 chip leader Wesley Nobels in 3rd place. After a heads up battle that lasted for an hour with fellow Belgian Raf de Wever, the aggressive 21 year old Wesley had all the chips to claim the €17,900 first prize and the trophy.
The new Mediterranean Deepstack Poker Champion has now cashed in 3 D4 Events tournaments this year. He only started playing live within the last year as the age limit in his home country is 21. He is likely to be seen at more live tournament in the near future as he plans to re-invest most of his winnings in poker.
The next D4 Events tournament is the Belgian Deepstack Poker Championship in Casino de Namur. This is now the main event of The Wallonie Series of Poker and if last year is anything to go by it will be a sell-out again. The tournament starts on July 28th. After this it is the "Goliath" in Coventry which is being organised by D4 Events and G Casino in the impressive EON lounge at the Ricoh Arena. We stay in the midlands of England for the English Deepstack Poker Championship at The Broadway Casino in September before hopping across the North Sea for the Winamax sponsored European Short-Handed Poker Championship in Dublin. See www.d4events.com for all the latest information about our tournaments.
There are some videos from the Mediterranean event on our Youtube channel so you can see for yourself what a great place Slovenia is to come and play poker. http://www.youtube.com/user/D4Events
Attached is a picture of Wesley Nobels along with the full results. More photo's from the event will be available from Tuesday by request. Please credit Danny Maxwell from www.irishpokerboards.com for the photo's.
