Finalists Unveiled for Team CelebPoker at San Remo

Leading online poker room CelebPoker.com has unveiled the 20 finalists in the competition to choose its representatives for the San Remo Main Event poker tournament.

Just three team members will be chosen from the hundreds who entered the hugely popular promotion February and March, with three packages worth €6,500 each on offer for the Main Event, which takes place from April 18th to the 23rd. Participants will be selected in a Grand Final on April 12th.

“Here at CelebPoker.com, we’re committed to sending representatives from among our membership to the world’s greatest poker tournaments, and San Remo is among best in Europe,” said David Donovan, Chief Executive Officer of CelebPoker.com. “These three individuals have earned themselves a buy-in to the tournament and that means the chance to win some serious money.”

The San Remo Main Poker Event debuted on the European Poker Tour in 2008, with 701 players forking out €5,000 each to compete for €3.1 million in cash. Young American poker player Jason Mercier rose to the top to capture the title and €869,000 in one of the final table battles of the season.

CelebPoker.com’s entrants will be competing in a pool of 800 players, with the additional 99 seats meaning that an extra €475,000 will be added to the prize pool, meaning an estimated prize of more than €1 million for the tournament winner. In addition to the buy-in, the three winners will also receive €1,250 from CelebPoker.com towards accommodation and expenses.

The CelebPoker.com competition was open only to those members who raked more than €1,000 on the site in February or March, which earned an invite to the two online semi-finals. The top 10 players from the semi-finals then qualified for the Grand Final, from which the three winners will be chosen, with a €500 consolation prize for the fourth-placed competitor.

Members going through to the Grand Final are as follows:

February Qualifiers: March Qualifiers:
1. I Moreno 1. V Kivirinta
2. O Yilmaz 2. M Perkowski
3. D Kelly 3. M Haas
4. B Szabad 4. A Gnuva
5. M Friedmann 5. M Siekaniec
6. G Juhasz 6. E Petrov
7. R Hollaar 7. E Flesjo
8. H Lindemann 8. J Eijnden
9. M Offenbach 9. A Altinel
10. S Hollaar 10. M Kreidler


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CelebPoker.com was voted the Best Poker Software 2007 by readers of Gambling Online Magazine and is an exciting, fully licensed and regulated online poker room available in 14 languages. We are dedicated to helping online poker players find fame and fortune by honing their skills on the site and providing them with the opportunity to become sponsored players at major live poker events. We also have an excellent online poker league and great monthly promotions. Check out www.CelebPoker.com today.