Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akkari has been hanging out in Barcelona for the European Poker Tour and playing WCOOP at the same time. This is a road dispatch from the Brazilian bomber himself. By Andre Akkari EPT started in the best way possible to me, and in the city I...more
Andre Akkari Bio
Andre Akkari has cashed in the biggest poker events around the world and online at PokerStars. His breakthrough came when he won back-to-back side events at the 2006 Bellagio Cup in Las Vegas, good for combined prize money of $140,500. Since then there have been cashes at events like the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) and side events at the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final. He also scored a huge cash online in September 2008 when he finished runner-up in the $10,300 HORSE event in the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), for prize money of $200,000.
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