Wednesday December 10,2014 : PMU WPTN HAT TRICK FOR POLITO
Record third WPTN win for Frenchman
Four days of hard poker saw Frenchman Laurent Polito take the PMU .fr World Poker Tour National (WPTN) Paris title and a pay check of Euro 140 000.
Polito bested a field of 682 beating out Carlo Savinelli in a brief heads-up while notching up a record second WPTN Paris title, the first of which was in 2013.
He is also the first player to win three WPTN titles, taking down the WPTN Cannes in May 2014.
Final standings were:
1 Laurent Polito € 140,000
2 Carlo Savinelli € 94,500
3 William Wilhelm € 61,000
4 Alexandre Gama € 45,000
5 David Lascar € 35,000
6 Stephan Ouzilou € 28,000
7 Franck Kalfon € 22,500
8 Omar Lakdhari € 18,000
9 Nathalie Schaeffer € 14,000
10 Tarek Bouchama € 10,000
11 Mohamed El Bakouri € 10,000
12 Thierry Luksenberg € 10,000
13 Claudio Leonardi € 8,100
14 Faouzi Degachi € 8,100