Dario Alioto Wins Pot Limit Omaha Event

2008 Caesars Palace
World Series of Poker
Europe (WSOPE)
Event #2
£5,000 Buy-in
Pot Limit Omaha
Tournament Report

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Italy's Dario Alioto wins European
Record £234,390 Pot-Limit Omaha
Prize at WSOP Europe

At World Series of Poker Europe presented by Betfair.com
European players continued their dominance at the first annual World Series
of Poker Europe presented by Betfair.com, as 23-year-old Dario Alioto of
Palermo, Italy, won the Pot-Limit Omaha Championship, £234,390 in cash
and the second WSOP gold bracelet ever awarded outside the United States.

Although an all-star contingent of poker professionals from the United States
entered the £5,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha event, only two ' Andy Bloch and
Ted Forrest ' made the final two tables. The remaining players, all of whom
cashed, continued the strong showing by Europe's young lions that began
with the first WSOP Europe event, a HORSE tournament won by Thomas Bihl
of Germany just 24 hours earlier.

'It's as though we've picked up where we left off at the Final Table of the
2007 Main Event in Las Vegas,' said WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack.
'That was the most international of tables and affirmed the global appeal of
poker. Results here in London further suggest that the rest of the world has
caught up to American poker professionals. This bodes well for the continued
international growth of the game.'

Alioto won the final hand of the Pot-Limit Omaha championship at 4:50 am
(GMT) today at The Casino at The Empire in London from second-place
finisher Istvan Novak of Hungary, who took home the consolation prize of
£137,280, or about $280,000.

Lithuanian native and current Australian resident Tony G finished third,
winning £94,380, following a seesaw battle for the chip lead with Alioto, and
losing a couple of critical hands to the Italian player and to Novak.

Ireland's David Callaghan finished fourth with £65,520, Antoine Arnault of
Paris wound up in fifth place with £49,530, Afghani Sherkhan Farnood
finished sixth for £38,220, Helsinki's Sampo Lopponen ended in seventh for
£30,420, multiple WSOP final-table player Andy Bloch of Las Vegas finished
eighth for £22,620 and Joseph Aval won £16,380 for ninth place.

Roland de Wolfe, Jan Persson and Ted Lawson collected £11,700 apiece for
finishing 10th through 12, respectively; John Duthie, Andrew Hagen and
Rupert Housden won £10,140 each for finishing 13th through 15th, and Dan
Bitsch Pedersen, Rafi Amit and Ted Forrest got £8,580 each for their 16th to
18th place finishes.

A total of 156 of the world's top poker players anted up £5,000 each to play
in the second WSOP Europe event, building a prize pool of £780,000. Both
the WSOP Europe HORSE and Pot-Limit Omaha tournaments established
record prize purses.

To view the complete results for Event #2 of the 2007 World
Series of Poker Europe, click on the link below:

2007 WSOP Europe Event #2 Tournament Results

To view the complete schedule for the 2007 World Series of
Poker Europe, click on the link below:

2007 World Series of Poker Europe Schedule & Results

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