Dario Minieri (; born 1985) is an Italian professional

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player from

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who won a

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at the age of 23, is a member of team

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player who was the first person to collect enough ''Frequent Player Points'' to buy an

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with them, and is a three-time

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final tablist.

Online poker

Minieri plays on

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, with 3 million frequent player points. On 27 January 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

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requested that the game pause to look over a deal; the 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. Minieri refused the deal and went on to win the entire $100,000.

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Minieri has cashed eight times at the

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(WSOP). At the

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Main Event, Minieri, who once was the chip leader coming off of day 3, finished in 96th place out of a field of 6,358 entries. The next year, Minieri won his first

at the

in the $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Six-handed event, beating out a field of 1,012 players, earning $528,418 his highest cash to date. In the final hand, with blinds 30,000/60,000 with a 5000 Ante, Minieri made a raise preflop to 125,000. His opponent Seth Fischer re-raised all-in and was called by Minieri's to Fischer's on a board of .

World Series of Poker bracelets

European Poker Tour

At the

(EPT) in

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

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on 5 April 2008, Minieri held the chip lead at the beginning of the final table and finished in 3rd place for €287,600 ($454,366). In his final hand, Minieri was dealt . Minieri raised to 100,000 and

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of the United States re-raised to 340,000 with , and Minieri called. After the flop came down , Mercier checked, and Minieri bet 400,000. Mercier then check-raised all-in with his nut flush draw. Minieri quickly called while ahead in the hand, putting his tournament life at risk with the two queens. The turn was the , giving Mercier even more outs and the on the river made Mercier the winning flush to eliminate Minieri. Mercier went on to win the event. In 2008, Minieri made a second EPT final table at the event in Warsaw and again finished in 3rd place, earning €123,162 ($153,619). As of May 2011, his live tournament winnings total $1,856,098. His 8 cashes as the WSOP account for $721,245 of those winnings.World Series of Poker Earnings
, worldseriesofpoker.com He currently ranks 13th among Italian poker players in all time live tournament earnings.

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