Two years ago the UK's Roberto Romanello came to the Czech Republic and defeated a field of 563 players to walk away with the EPT Prague title and €640,000 first-place prize.
Romanello is in today's field and looking for his second title in three years, and in honor of the past champion, we thought we'd take a look back at his win by reproducing the recap from his victory (check out PokerNews' EPT7 Prague Live Blog for the full story):
Roberto Romanello is the PokerStars.com EPT Prague Main Event Champion and a worthy one at that. Since Day 1b Romanello has been amongst the chipleaders and after defeating Emilliano Bono heads-up he now has the trophy, the title and €640,000 in his back pocket!
He came into the final table fifth from eight in chips but he played perfectly all the way through and thoroughly deserved to win each and every single one of the 16,890,000 chips in play.
Romanello has entertained his opponents and the media alike with his witty banter, his happy go lucky attitude and the fact that he is one of poker's true gentleman. Ask anybody in this industry to speak a bad word of him and you will not find a single soul who will do so.
After being overcome with emotion and having to leave the tournament area, Romanello composed himself and returned to rapturous applause from the spectators, staff, media and railbirds who had all gathered round to welcome the new champion.
After accepting the winner's trophy, Romanello asked if he could say a few words. After asking for a round of applause for the tournament dealers, who have been superb once again, Romanello had this to say to his supporters.
"The support was superb all week. I feel like everyone wanted me to win and it feels so good to actually do it."
This result is Romanello's biggest by a long shot, more than four times his previous largest cash, which stood at $200,000. However, you get the feeling from his reaction that the money, although extremely welcome, means less than being able to call himself EPT Prague Champion.
From everyone here at PokerNews.com, congratulations to Roberto Romanello, the 2010 PokerStars.com EPT Prague Main Event Champion!
EPT Prague Season 7 Final Table
| Buy-in | Entrants | Prize Pool | Number of Payouts | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| €5,000 + €300 | 563 | €2,730,550 | 80 | December 13-18, 2010 |
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Roberto Romanello | United Kingdom | €640,000 |
| 2nd | Emiliano Bono | Italy | €435,000 |
| 3rd | Marcin Horecki | Poland | €247,000 |
| 4th | Peter Skripka | Russia | €163,000 |
| 5th | Marco Leonzio | Italy | €130,000 |
| 6th | Jan Bendik | Slovakia | €100,000 |
| 7th | Manuel Bevand | France | €71,000 |
| 8th | Roberto Nulli | Italy | €54,500 |
when Moorman bet 2,000 into Switzerland's Friedrich Paul Raz, who clicked it back with a min-raise. Moorman sat deep in thought for a solid minute, and then silently conceded the hand.
for rivered trips. Moorman's eyebrows shot up in mock surprise before. "Nice bet, no worries," Moorman said and shaking his head in the affirmative when asked if he had folded 
. "I don't have too many good folds left in me."
board, sending a puzzled Wahlbeck into the tank. Wahlbeck was studying the board with his head cocked to one side and he really looked pained in his decision making. Whatever thought processes he had, they pointed him towards calling and that is what he did.
flop.
turn saw Keys fired again. This time he upped the ante slightly to 1,900 and after asking for a count of Keys' stack (11,100) Kaflas called.
flop.
Schemion slowed down with a check. Christensen took the opportunity to bet a single blue T5,000 chip, which got the job done as Schemion sent his cards flying to the muck.
, both Dror and Kulifaj knuckled again, and Hellman fired 2,525. This time, only Kulifaj called.
, completing possible flush and straight draws, and Kulifaj immediately led out for 6,525. Hellman flicked his cards into the muck, and the Slovakian PokerStars qualifier raked in the pot.
