Roberto Romanello
Encyclopedia
Roberto Romanello is a Welsh
professional poker
player from Swansea
, Wales
. Since turning professional in 2005, Romanello has made more than $520,000 live tournament earnings. Online, he is a Full Tilt
professional.
Romanello took up poker in 2005 after a sports injury sidelined him for three months. After enjoying watching the World Series of Poker
on television, he started to play online and won a World Poker Tour
prize package within his first two weeks of playing. After this initial success, Romanello began playing in his local casino. In 2006, he travelled to Las Vegas
for his first WSOP Main Event. Romanello performed well, finishing 312th and taking home almost $40,000.
Romanello is one of the most successful Welsh poker players. He is fifth on the Wales All Time Money List.
In December 2010 he won the European Poker Tour
stop in Prague for €640,000.
In April 2011 he won the €2,500 buy in World Poker Tour
stop at Bratislava in Slovakia with pocket fives.
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
professional poker
Poker
Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...
player from Swansea
Swansea
Swansea is a coastal city and county in Wales. Swansea is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands...
, Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
. Since turning professional in 2005, Romanello has made more than $520,000 live tournament earnings. Online, he is a Full Tilt
Full Tilt Poker
Full Tilt Poker is an online poker card room that opened in June 2004 with the involvement of poker professionals Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, Andy Bloch, Mike Matusow, Jennifer Harman and Chris Ferguson...
professional.
Romanello took up poker in 2005 after a sports injury sidelined him for three months. After enjoying watching the World Series of Poker
World Series of Poker
The World Series of Poker is a world-renowned series of poker tournaments held annually in Las Vegas and, since 2005, sponsored by Harrah's Entertainment...
on television, he started to play online and won a World Poker Tour
World Poker Tour
The World Poker Tour is a series of international poker tournaments and associated television series broadcasting the final table of each tournament. It was started in the United States by attorney/television producer Steven Lipscomb, who served as CEO of WPT Enterprises , the firm that...
prize package within his first two weeks of playing. After this initial success, Romanello began playing in his local casino. In 2006, he travelled to Las Vegas
Las Vegas metropolitan area
The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...
for his first WSOP Main Event. Romanello performed well, finishing 312th and taking home almost $40,000.
Romanello is one of the most successful Welsh poker players. He is fifth on the Wales All Time Money List.
In December 2010 he won the European Poker Tour
European Poker Tour
The Pokerstars European Poker Tour is a series of poker tournaments similar to those in the World Poker Tour , created by John Duthie, winner of the inaugural Poker Million tournament. It began in 2004 as part of the worldwide explosion in Texas Hold 'em popularity...
stop in Prague for €640,000.
In April 2011 he won the €2,500 buy in World Poker Tour
World Poker Tour
The World Poker Tour is a series of international poker tournaments and associated television series broadcasting the final table of each tournament. It was started in the United States by attorney/television producer Steven Lipscomb, who served as CEO of WPT Enterprises , the firm that...
stop at Bratislava in Slovakia with pocket fives.