Benny Spindler will be dining in style tonight after taking down the EPT9 Sanremo High Roller event, good for €253,000 - and a pristine silver cutlery set. Spindler also now wins his second Shamballa bracelet, adding this title to his EPT London crown, where he also won the exclusive bling....more

The final stages of the €10,000 High Roller event are taking place in the middle of some civilised chaos. Benny Spindler and Keven Stammen are heads up, playing for a bunch of cash and a bundle of additional prizes, but there are a lot of other people busy doing what...more

The contrast between the main event and the high roller is pretty stark. While the main event rumbles on in the theatre, with beams of bright light illuminating the central stage and the final table, the high roller event plays on in relative obscurity, beneath the mural of a...more

No matter how long a poker festival goes on, there will still be players with bricks of cash ready to buy in to the later events. Some are looking to play the rush, others to haul out of a hole, the majority simply completing a well-prepared schedule decided long in...more

As the main event in Sanremo gets very close to bagging and tagging for the night, the players in the High Roller event are preparing to play on into the early hours. They did not begin until 5pm local time, with registration closing after their dinner break at around 10.30pm....more

Steve O'Dwyer was back. In his hand was a scrap of paper and he wished to be seated immediately. It was partly owing to impatience, partly so he could put the events of the last few minutes behind him. He'd just been eliminated from the high roller event and...more

Somewhere in an alternate universe, poker tournaments get the attention they deserve. In this one, there can be bellowing and chaos about a player doubling a short stack in a €300 Hyper Turbo, while at the same time a field bulging with EPT champions, World Series bracelet winners and the...more

The PokerStars European Poker Tour is in Sanremo for its second stop on the Season 9 schedule. Sanremo is a favorite stop on the EPT, evidenced by the 837-player field that showed up for the Season 8 Main Event. What attracts players to the City of Flowers? We asked members...more

Season 9 of the European Poker Tour kicked off in a big way in Barcelona last month, but now it's time for the second stop of the season--EPT San Remo. From October 3-11, 2012, the Casino Sanremo will play host to a full festival of poker tournaments headlined by a...more

After the huge success of EPT Barcelona, which saw Mikalai Pobal beat Ilari Sahamies heads up for the title and €1,007,550, the next stop on the tour is EPT Sanremo. The Italian stop has thrown up some classic final tables over the last few years and some great champions too....more