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Peter The Great Wins Inaugural Russian Poker Tourney

Prepare yourself for plenty of lazy descriptions, obvious puns and terrible Russian jokes. Peter Vlasenko, a Moscow-based poker player, has won the inaugural St Petersburg Open and immediately been dubbed the new ‘Tsar of Poker’. ‘Peter The Great’, as he has also come to be known, picked up $84,000 at the Party Poker backed event held at the Golden Garden Casino. The event saw the largest prize pool on Russian poker history on offer: $500,000. The Tsar saw off plenty of stiff competition in what was his first ever major live game. He normally plays high stakes online. Mark Vronskiy, a veteran pro from St Petersburg was beaten into second place when his pocket threes failed to beat Vlasenko’s pair of eights, which he hit on the turn. Whether ‘Peter The Great’ can rule like his despotic namesake remains to be seen.




Source: OnlineCasinoNews

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