Online MTTs Sunday Recap: Roberto Romanello's Powerful Powerfest

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Online MTTs Sunday Recap: Roberto Romanello's Powerful Powerfest
09:37
23 Jan

(Photo: WSOP.com)

Party Poker's seventh running of Powerfest began on Sunday with 12 events out of 147 scheduled, and site ambassador Roberto “WelshWizard” Romanello had a fine day on the virtual felt, final tabling two of the tournaments for over $41K in prize money combined.

The first of his final tables was the $500K Gtd Title Fight Special Edition that attracted 2,100 entrants at a $215 buy-in, providing a nice overlay for all participants. “ABOUDIABY2” took home the title and $83,500 in prize money, getting past runner-up “DieguiDekk15.” Romanello's deep run ended in 4th place for $25,250.

POWERFEST #03-M: $500K GTD - Final Table Results

1ABOUDIABY2
$83,500
2DieguiDekk15
$58,850
3bdhs.
$38,000
4WelshWizard
$25,250
5luccaspie
$17,725
6RagingDiarrhea
$12,200
7Rescuebaklava23
$8,380
8Swunhiire
$5,375 


The WelshWizard's other final table came courtesy of the $250,000 GTD  Super High Roller where 137 players coughed up the $2,100 entry fee. That brought the prize pool to $274K and saw “KONY2012” and “PrettySteph” commandeer a chop of first and second place prize money.

KONY2012 took about $5K more and the SHR title, while PrettySteph likely feels a whole lot prettier today with her purse weighed down by $51,462. Romanello's cut for fifth place totaled $16,440.

POWERFEST #03-H: $250K GTD SHR - Final Table Results

1KONY2012
$56,740
2PrettySteph
$51,462
3SandwichBacon
$32,880
4Zaymovishka
$23,290
5WelshWizard
$16,440
6IN INFINITY
$13,015
7probirs
$10,357
8YumsYums
$8,220         


The $215 Sunday Million at PokerStars drew 5,893 entrants, consisting of 4,782 entries and 1,111 re-entries. The prize pool ballooned to $1,178,600 and made winners out of 1,052 players.

Every player landing in the money received a ticket to a $30K all-in shootout in addition to the prize money. The lion share of that prize money went to Latvia's "auercan," who began final table action with the second shortest stack, but roared back to claim the title and $159,131.67.

PokerStars Sunday Million - Final Table Results

1auercan
$159,131.67
2zavag
$111,670.69
3zcedrick
$78,366.99
4Lenballs1014
$54,995.59
5buttonstars
$38,594.31
6jbrown8777
$27,084.34
7cxde
$19,007.04
8mixmixmix
$13,338.68
9PikkuHUMPPA
$9,360.79        


Other results on PokerStars' busy Sunday schedule included a title for Russia's "SENSIMIL1" in the $215 Sunday Warm-Up for $47,105.25. Not far from the Russian champ came another big winner over the weekend when Ukraine's "RomeOpro" won the Sunday 500 for $37,764.07.


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Charles is a Chicago native and long time poker player who dusted off his journalism degree and began writing about poker following the events of Black Friday in 2011. He has written for a number of leading poker websites, offering his insights and expertise on subjects ranging from online poker leg...Read more

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