I was told to be careful, being in Barcelona.” Back home, if I had to count up £40,000, you can imagine the bundles of £20 notes - I’d have needed a bag.
My mates were looking at me, and I was looking at them thinking ‘Is this real?’ I folded it and put it in my pocket it went in that easily. “They paid me the €42,200 winnings in cash, most of it in €500 notes. I smashed it up.” The partypoker pro tells us.
“They had a €500+50 side event which I’ll never forget. It would be a choice that would define his fledgling career. However, having been told that the EPT Main Event was full apart from a ludicrous waiting list, he had two choices - go home or find another tournament. Still in his twenties, he’d pitched up in Barcelona, Spain. When we last spoke to Roberto Romanello, the Welsh Wizard was just the Welsh Whizzkid.
