Dario Minieri

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Dario Minieri
Minieri at the 2007 World Series of Poker.
Nickname(s)	Supernova
Hometown	Rome, Italy
World Series of Poker
Bracelet(s)	None
Money finishes	3
Highest ITM main event finish	96th, 2007
European Poker Tour
Titles	None
Final tables	2
Money finishes	3

Dario Minieri is an Italian professional poker player from Rome, Italy who is a member of team PokerStars,^[1]^[2] and is a online player who collected so many Frequent Player Points that he was the first person to buy an automobile with them.^[3]

1 Poker
2 Notes
3 External links

[edit] Poker

Mineiri as chip leader at the 2007 WSOP

[edit] Online poker

Minieri, a top ranked online professional poker player, who plays on PokerStars under his own name "Dariominieri", is known for being a high-stakes heads-up specialist with the sites highest rank of Supernova Elite^[4] and had accumulated enough Frequent Player Points (over 3 million) that he became the first person ever to buy a car with them, a 2007 Porsche Cayman S.^[5]

On January 27, 2008, Minieri won PokerStars $5,200 (winner-takes-all) Freezeout, a 20 player tournament in which the winner takes the $100,000 prize barring any deals, when the game was left with two players known as heads-up play, Minieri and his opponent Isaac Baron known on Pokerstars as "westmenloAA", requested that the game pause to look over a deal, a deal was offered based on their chip equity with $25,000 by rule set aside for the winner, Baron, who was down to a 3-1 chip deficit demanded a larger portion of the chop with the majority going to Minieri, when the deal was refused by Minieri he went on to win the entire $100,000.^[6]

[edit] World Series of Poker

Minieri has cashed three time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), at the 2007 WSOP Main Event , Minieri who was chip leader coming off of day 3 finished in 96th place out of a field of 6358 entries.

[edit] European Poker Tour

At the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Baden, Austria (The Big Double 2006), at the €5,000 No Limit Hold'em event Minieri finished in 3rd earning €125,780 ($159,763).

At the EPT San Remo, Italy on April 5, 2008, Minieri who held the chip lead at the beginning of the final table finished in 3rd place for €287,600 ($454,366), In the hand Minieri was dealt Q♠ Q♦, Minieri raised to 100,000 and his opponent Jason Mercier with A♦ 4♦ of the United States raised 340,000 and Minieri called, the flop came 7♥ 2♦ 8♦, Lawson check, Minieri bet 400,000 and Mercier check-raised all-in on a flush draw having Minieri covered, Minieri quickly called ahead in the hand with the two queens, the turn was the 4♥ with the 3♦ on the river making Mercier flush , Mercier went on the win the EPT title.^[7]

As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $750,000.^[8] he currently ranks 4th among Italian poker player in all time live tournament earnings ^[9]