Bonavena Looking For Another EPT Prague Title

Four years ago, a then little-known Italian by the name of Salvatore Bonavena made his presence known to the poker world when he topped a field of 569 players to win the second EPT Prague for €774,000.

Yesterday, Stephen Bartley took a look at Bonavena's career since his win in an interesting PokerStars Blog piece. Here's snippet of what he had to say:

It proved a breakthrough for Bonavena, who swapped modest scores in local tournaments in places like Sanremo and Venice, for the international stage. But more than that, as the first Italian to win a EPT title, it proved a watershed for Italian poker which embraced the game, and its winner, with typical aplomb.

Four years on and Bonavena is still a regular on the tour. Playing tomorrow, he was spotted earlier taking in the scene of his past triumph, to which he has since added the Sisal Italian Champions of Poker and IPT Venice to his resume, not to mention a third place in a WSOPE hold'em event earlier this year.

Bonavena is in today's field, as is Andrew Chen, who placed third back in Season 5.

EPT Prague Season 5 Final Table

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool	Number of Payouts	Date
€5,000	569	€2,764,500	56	December 9-13, 2008

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Salvatore Bonavena	Italy	€774,000
2nd	Massimo Di Cicco	Italy	€445,000
3rd	Andrew Chen	Canada	€257,000
4th	Alexiou Konstantinos	Greece	€199,000
5th	Francesco Cirianni	Italy	€166,000
6th	Fredrik Nygard	Finland	€130,000
7th	[Removed:197]	Germany	€99,500
8th	Raul Mestre	Spain	€71,800