Dario Sammartino

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Dario Sammartino
Dario Sammartino (2016)
Dario Sammartino (2016)
  Personal information  
Date of birth April 5th 1987
place of birth ItalyItaly Naples
Nickname
Secret_M0d3PokerStars
place of residence SloveniaSlovenia Nova Gorica
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0$ 6,000,000
Total prize money $ 14,573,846
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 41
Best main event 2. ( 2019 )
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 13
  Main Event of the PokerStars Championship  
title no
Cashes 1
  Main Event of party poker Live  
title no
Cashes 1
Last updated: August 3, 2020

Giuseppe Dario Sammartino (born April 5, 1987 in Naples ) is a professional Italian poker player .

Poker career

Career

Sammartino plays on the online poker platform PokerStars under the nickname Secret_M0d3 . Since 2008 he has been taking part in renowned live tournaments .

Sammartino was in July 2011 for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas successful and died in a tournament variant No-Limit Hold'em the money. At the main event of the World Series of Poker Europe , which was held in Cannes in October 2011 , he finished 17th for € 37,000 in prize money. At the end of October 2013, Sammartino finished second in the main event of the Italian Poker Tour in Sanremo for 95,000 euros. In the WSOP 2014 he reached the final table of the Six Handed Championship and was awarded for his sixth place close to 100,000 US dollars . At the beginning of May 2015, Sammartino reached the final table of the European Poker Tour in Monte-Carlo at both the Super High Roller Event and the High Roller and also cashed in the Main Event for prize money of over one million euros. In January 2016, he finished third in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller in the Bahamas for just under $ 550,000. At the 2017 WSOP , Sammartino reached the final table of the $ 111,111 buy-in event on the tournament schedule, the High Roller for One Drop , and finished the event in third place behind Doug Polk and Bertrand Grospellier for a purse of over 1 $ 5 million. In July 2019 Sammartino reached the Main Event of the WSOP in 2019 the final table , which was played from 14 to 16 July of 2019. He started with the sixth most chips and played his way up to heads-up , in which he was defeated by the German-Iranian Hossein Ensan . Sammartino received US $ 6 million in prize money that made him jump past Mustapha Kanit to become one of the most successful Italian poker players. A photo of Sammartino taken by Drew Amato at the final table later won a Global Poker Award as Poker Photo of the Year 2019 . At the end of October 2019, Sammartino also reached the final table at the Main Event of the World Series of Poker Europe at King's Resort in Rozvadov and took fourth place, worth over 340,000 euros.

In total, Sammartino has earned more than 14.5 million US dollars with poker in live tournaments , making it the most successful Italian poker player . From April to November 2016 , Sammartino played as part of the Rome Emperors in the Global Poker League , but missed the playoffs with his team.

Prize money overview

year Prize money (in $ ) Tournament victories
2008 00.00.4781 -
2009 00.045,547 -
2010 00.075.051 -
2011 00.100,076 -
2012 00.038.195 -
2013 00.478,658 2
2014 00.509.222 -
2015 01,452,445 -
2016 01,078,496 -
2017 03,301,146 1
2018 00.528.860 -
2019 06,961,368 1
2020 00,000.000 -
total 14,573,846 4th

Web links

Commons : Dario Sammartino  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dario Sammartino in the database of the Global Poker Index, accessed on July 7, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ Dario Sammartino in the World Series of Poker database, accessed July 7, 2017.
  3. ↑ Secret_M0d3 on Pokerstars at highstakesdb.com, accessed July 7, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b Dario Sammartino in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 7, 2017 (English).
  5. ↑ 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2011 ($ 1,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 7, 2017.
  6. ↑ 2011 World Series of Poker - Europe (€ 10,000 + 400 Main Event - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 7, 2017 (English).
  7. ↑ IPT - 5 - Sanremo II (€ 630 + 70 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 7, 2017 (English).
  8. ↑ 45th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2014 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - Six Handed (Event # 32)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 7, 2017.
  9. ↑ EPT - 11 - FPS - 5 - Grand Final (€ 98,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller (Event # 14)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 7, 2017 (English).
  10. ↑ EPT - 11 - FPS - 5 - Grand Final (€ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller 8 Handed (Event # 61)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 7, 2017 (English).
  11. ↑ EPT - 11 - FPS - 5 - Grand Final (€ 10,000 + 600 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event (Event # 27)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 7, 2017.
  12. ↑ PCA - 2016 ($ 25,000 # 74 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller 8-Handed) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 7, 2017.
  13. ↑ 48th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2017 ($ 111,111 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller for One Drop (Event # 6)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 7, 2017.
  14. ↑ 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event: Hossein Ensan as chip leader on pokernews.com on July 13, 2019, accessed on July 13, 2019.
  15. ↑ 50th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2019 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - WSOP Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 17, 2019.
  16. ↑ Ingram, Chidwick & Kerstetter Among 2nd Annual Global Poker Award Winners on pokernews.com on March 7, 2020, accessed on March 12, 2020 (English).
  17. ↑ World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) 2019 (€ 10,350 No Limit Hold'em - WSOPE Main Event (Event # 14)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 1, 2019 (English).
  18. ↑ Rome Emperors on the Global Poker League website, accessed July 7, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Sammartino, Dario
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sammartino, Giuseppe Dario (full name); Secret_M0d3 (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian poker player
DATE OF BIRTH April 5th 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples , Italy