This is a great story today. An online poker player who actually won his seat via a qualifier for the Party Poker Premier League IV event went on to win a whopping $158,000. This lucky player won his seat in the event through a qualifier event instead of having to pay the buy in fee.
This lucky player, Giovannia Safina, actually outlasted a lot of the big players in this event. This 44 year old online poker player is from Palermo in Italy and he finished in third place in the poker event. The Party Poker Premier League IV tool place at the M Resort in Las Vegas and as the third place winner this player took home $158k as his share of the $1.5 million prize pool.
The top prize which was $476,000 was won by a 37 year old French professional poker player called David Benyamine and the second place prize of $258,000 went to Luke Schwartz.
The first player to leave the event was the Party Poker World Open V champion Phil Laak.
I guess the whole point of this blog post today is to show that winning seats into these poker tournaments can really mean a lot. This Italian player who came in third in this big event didn’t have to pay the buy in fees and he actually won his seat. In most of the qualifiers for these events when you win a seat at the tournament it includes your buy in fee, your flights and accommodation and sometimes even spending money.
Most big poker tournaments have qualifying satellite tournaments that are held by a number of online poker websites and registered players on these websites can take part in the daily tournaments and sometimes even freerolls to win their seats.
This tournament was in conjunction with partypoker.com which is a very popular online poker website. They run some amazing tournaments and they have satellite qualifier events all the time that can see players winning seats in some of the biggest poker tournaments around the world.
If you are a member of the Poker Party website then you will know exactly what I am talking about but for those of your who aren’t this is one online poker website that you really should take a look at. Who knows, you could be the next big winner.
Until next time,
Gamble Wisely
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