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On Day 1b of PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino® €5,300 Main Event, Italian player Gianluca Speranza finished with a narrow lead atop a tightly bunched group of players as 222 of 481 runners made it through the day. Speranza’s stack of 201,500 means Day 1a leader Jeff Hakim still paces the field by a wide margin.
The players got into the habit of throwing in their poker chips, as needed, for ’hero points’ allowing to reroll duff rolls, do extra damage, rapid heal wounds etc While the adventure was very hack’n’slash ( this time round: a giant crab and a large snake ), the best brawl came at the end of the evening when the four-strong party took on eight. Total life earnings: $161,482. Latest cash: $2,500 on 07-Dec-2019. Click here to see the details of Nicholas Galtos’ 35 cashes.PositionPlayerCountryChip Count1Gianluca SperanzaItaly201,5002Michael KolkowiczFrance197,3003Makram SaberLebanon192,0004Xavier RouayrouxFrance192,0005David UrbanSlovakia188,7006Raffaele SorrentinoItaly175,2007Remi CastaignonFrance160,0008Christopher FrankGermany152,0009Vasyl ZabrodskyyUkraine146,40010Aleksei IstominRussia144,600
*The one and only Nicholas Galtos His name is Nicholas Galtos, and it’s actually no fluke that he’s here in Prague today. It isn’t even his first visit here for poker as he finished 22nd in the main event in 2012.
*Monday, June 20, 2016 to Friday, June 24, 2016. Event #33: $1,500 Summer Solstice No-Limit Hold’em.
Meanwhile, one of poker biggest superstars of a few years also put in a good performance. Patrik Antonius, who still is one of the most recognizable faces in poker, turned back the clock a bit as he ran up the chip lead by dinner break before ultimately finishing with 102,200.
Antonius sat in during Level 4 and doubled his starting stack almost immediately.
Antonius, best known for his high-stakes cash exploits, also has over $6.7 million in tournament winnings but has only booked a single cash in the past three years as he moves farther and farther from the global tournament scene.Nick Galtos Poker Wife
Antonius sat in during Level 4 and doubled his starting stack almost immediately with a discerning call when he and an opponent each missed flush draws. Antonius did make a pair of fives, however, and called off on the river when his opponent put him all in.
Right before dinner, Antonius made a big move up the chip counts when four players saw an ace-king-three flop for a three-bet. Antonius held ace-three for two pair, and the player who three-bet was unable to get away from ace-queen, helping the Fin go to dinner with over 300 big blinds after he faded his opponent’s outs on the turn and river.
Other notables bagging over six figures included EPT Barcelona champ Sebastian Malec (140,200), PokerStars Team Pro Liv Boeree (127,400), recent PokerStars National Championship winner Andreas Klatt, Davidi Kitai and Tom Hall.
Jan Bendik who won the last EPT event here last year, also made it through, as did PokerStars Team Pros Daniel Negreanu, Igor Kurganov and Bertrand ’ElkY’ Grospellier.
Ryan Riess’ recent heater, including a WPT title in Florida, did not continue as he fizzled out after losing most of his stack to Jason Wheeler. Players joining him on the rail included Anthony Zinno, Paul Newey, Ami Barer, Ivan Luca and PokerStars Team Pro Felipe Ramos.
Day 1b’s field pushed the two-flight total for the event to 716 runners, and there’s still time for more to join them. Registration remains open until the noon restart, and PokerNews will pick up the coverage again then, so be sure to return for Day 2.TableSeatNameCountryChip Count11Stefan SchillhabelGermany203.00012Francesco GriecoItaly58.90014Craig VarnellUnited States115.70015Vicente DelgadoSpain107.00016Jose Vendrell SchwaigerGermany27.00017Marcin WysockiDenmark19.00018Mikko TurtiainenFinland37.70021Matthew HopkinsUnited Kingdom94.60022Ran AzorIsrael24.10023Patrik TkacSlovakia37.60024Salvatore PepiItaly39.50025Maria HoUnited States16.50026Mark TeltscherUnited Kingdom90.10027Dominik NitscheGermany26.20028Romain NardinFrance86.00031Igor KurganovRussia76.00032Peter EichhardtSweden121.90033John JuandaIndonesia45.90034Christoph VogelsangGermany69.50035Jack SalterUnited Kingdom75.80036Preben StokkanNorway54.60038Charlie CarrelUnited Kingdom48.40041Dmitrii DeviatovRussia15.40042Valerii LubenetsUkraine83.70043Daniel NegreanuCanada27.60045Ryan FranklinUnited States106.00046Leo NordinSweden28.70047Paul HoeferGermany12.10048Manuel SadornilSpain50.50052Jason MercierUnited States83.40053Alin GrasuRomania43.50054Vitaliy ImertsakiUkraine37.10055Hossein EnsanGermany80.00056Dermot BlainIreland37.00057Walid Bou HabibLebanon35.00058Luigi ContiItaly94.70061Firas NassarLebanon51.60062Micha de GraafBelgium93.40063Jimmy GuerreroFrance48.00064Sam GraftonUnited Kingdom12.00066Anton HrabchakUkraine48.70067Keven StammenUnited States38.70068Pascal HartmannGermany152.10071Tiberiu ZanfiracheRomania46.30072Andreas KlattGermany118.00073Yan LiChina50.50074Ariel MalnikLithuania78.30075Sindre TvedtNorway76.80077Steven MulderGermany20.60078Davy ChamorroFrance3.60081Cosmin Mihai PetricaRomania109.60082Govert MetaalNetherlands19.80083Lukasz KubickiPoland92.70084Onur UnsalTurkey115.80085Daniel SmithMonaco90.10087Johan GuilbertFrance47.40088Remi CastaignonFrance160.00091Morten MortensenDenmark96.80093Martin LundeNorway87.00094Benjamin PollakFrance53.80095Patrik AntoniusFinland102.20096Hideki TakafujiJapan70.70097Andrejs MaklecovsLatvia81.50098Alexandru PapazianRomania95.300101Nabil ChayaCanada31.700102Vladimir DemenkovRussia70.000103Roger TondeurSwitzerland77.000104Sergio AidoSpain52.300105Steve O’DwyerIreland24.200106Jogvan GlerfossFaroe Islands25.600107Paul-Francois TedeschiFrance60.400111Carlos ChangTaiwan109.300112Aurelien GuigliniFrance28.900113Børge SandsgaardNorway37.600114Krisztian FejerdiHungary7.500115Michel Pereira MarquesBrazil168.900117Giovanni LenaItaly67.900118Luke CerklewiczUnited Kingdom36.400122Nikolay NikolovBulgaria40.400123Markus DurneggerAustria106.400124Nick PetrangeloUnited States63.000125Moritz DietrichGermany77.900126Jeremy MamouFrance23.300127Nicolas PouzencFrance24.500128Henrik TollefsenNorway22.300132Tsugunari TomaJapan70.500133Martin JacobsonSpain25.900134Viktor ShenerRussia16.200135Emil PatelFinland46.100136Arne CoulierBelgium127.700137Rabah Ait-AbdelmalekFrance69.400138Michal VitkovskySlovakia94.000141Benjamin HeptinstallAustralia84.000142Carlos MironiukArgentina55.300143Hauke FickGermany49.700144Bas De LaatMalta56.200145Michel PomaretFrance55.000146Macsim RobertRomania42.400147Sergei PetrushevskiiRussia91.800148Philipp KoberAustria51.300151Karim NabiFrance59.500152Karim SouaidFrance131.000153Javier Gomez ZapateroSpain23.600154Franck MakaciFrance56.200155Marcin DziembalaPoland70.900156Mikalai VaskaboinikauBelarus57.500157Victoria Coren MitchellUnited Kingdom35.500158Clemente Malheiro CarreiraPortugal61.500161Sylvain LoosliFrance47.500162Ibrahim GhassanLebanon44.500163Fabiano KovalskiBrazil35.000164[Removed:43]France115.500165Jerome ArnouldFrance26.200166Kliment Roussev TarmakovCanada32.300167Thomas PopovCanada28.200168Michael KolkowiczFrance197.300171Maxim PanyakRussia84.600172Adrien AllainFrance73.000173Istvan BirizdoHungary61.200174Sergio CabreraUnited Kingdom24.000175Bart LybaertBelgium82.600176Marius GierseGermany77.700177Vasileios CharalampakisGreece72.000178Michael KoranSwitzerland30.200181Viliyan PetleshkovBulgaria129.600182Sebastian Ruiz FigueroaChile80.800183Andrew ChenCanada28.600184Paul GuichardFrance45.400185Ramin HajiyevAzerbaijan97.000186Ionut BodogaiRomania49.200187Adolfo VaezaUruguay65.300188Carole SegouraFrance73.400191Tommaso BriottiItaly17.400192Ramon Miquel MunozSpain121.500193Frederic CasaltaFrance25.500194Isaac HaxtonUnited States65.200195Manig LoeserGermany195.700196Arezki BelaidiCanada49.200197Jeffrey HakimLebanon305.300198Jullian FerioloFrance98.900201Tommy HjornerudNorway84.100203Makram SaberLebanon192.000204Emin AghayevAzerbaijan41.300205Dmytro ShuvanovUkraine136.100206Adi AlkalayIsrael105.800207Marco MasuttiSlovakia39.900208Jean KojaFrance90.000211Dan ColmanUnited States13.600212Ruslan MityayevUkraine28.100213James MitchellUnited Kingdom109.000214Adrian IonescuRomania38.400215[Removed:172]Germany35.200216Bradley MarshCanada88.300217Adrien DelmasFrance33.300218Robert PankowskiPoland33.000221Jerome L’HostisUnited Kingdom80.500223Michel EidLebanon49.900224Dan SmithUnited States49.100225Dzmitry RabotkinBelarus49.300226Simonet StephaneFrance53.400227Kosumosu YamanakaJapan23.800228Faraz JakaUnited States98.100231Carlos LopesFrance9.200232Waldemar NowakPoland19.000233Dirk Van LuijkBelgium52.300234[Removed:170]Lithuania94.000235Jerome SgorranoBelgium28.300236El Amir Ziad ChehabLebanon30.000237Jawad BengouraneFrance82.000238Nicholas GaltosSwitzerland24.100241Besiana AntoniAlbania13.600242Hau Minh NguyenAustralia78.200243Jean MonturyFrance35.000244Diego VilelaBrazil140.000245Raffaello LocatelliItaly64.800246Lee Hon CheongHong Kong10.400247Natasha BarbourCanada91.600248Florian KosslerGermany35.500251Benjamin SaadaFrance22.000252Matthew WhitingUnited Kingdom42.100253Juri MereuItaly55.000254Vishwanath ManjunathUnited Kingdom51.700255Jean Paul ZaffranIsrael41.400256Alexander DebusGermany36.600257Leonardo VilelaBrazil107.200258Benny GlaserUnited Kingdom56.100261Didier OrtizColombia38.100262Jason WheelerUnited States30.900263Oliver WeisGermany41.900264Mudasser HussainUnited Kingdom20.100265Thomas BergNorway83.100266Igor YaroshevskyyUkraine156.700267Maria LampropulosArgentina53.000268Laurynas LevinskasLithuania23.400271Isabel BaltazarFrance30.200272Lander LijoSpain40.800273Gaelle BaumannFrance49.200274Thomas MuehloeckerAustria18.200275Hicham MoussaNigeria56.500276Fabrice SoulierFrance105.100277Xavier RouayrouxFrance192.000278Muhyedine FaresSenegal54.900281Jacques TorbeyLebanon107.300282Bruno LopezFrance73.200283Stephen WoodheadUnited Kingdom55.800284Julio Martini FilhoBrazil60.800285Levan KaramanishviliUkraine53.300286Jean-Jacques ZeitounFrance60.000287Ole SchemionGermany144.900288Shijirbaatar SanjaasurenMongolia130.000291Tom HallUnited Kingdom102.000292Kent RoedNorway41.700293Maksim ShulgaRussia80.800294Alexandre MoreauFrance63.200295Rocco PalumboItaly105.900296Paul TestudFrance103.000297Aliaksei BoikaBelarus77.000298Edouard MignotFrance55.000301Harry TouilFrance18.700302Usman SiddiqueUnited Kingdom51.500303William SaadIvory Coast47.900304Kaue De SouzaBrazil44.300305Walery EngelGermany57.300306Espen SolaasNorway35.300307Cosmin Ionut DumitricuRomania78.200308Gerald KarlicAustria45.000311Raffaele SorrentinoItaly175.200312Daniel DvoressCanada44.200313Paul GreselNetherlands50.600314Aleksandar TomovicSerbia57.500315Rony HalimiFrance49.800316Romain LewisFrance82.100317Benoit LamFrance86.500318Celina LinAustralia125.500321Narcis-Gabriel NedelcuRomania103.300322Andrey BondarRussia49.200323Aleksandrs GolubevsUnited Kingdom25.900324Marius CazacuRomania5.100325Kyrylo KudymaUkraine73.000326Sebastien CompteFrance26.000327Donald Duarte SierraNicaragua43.200328Andrey VlasenkoRussia12.800331Artur SahakyanArmenia102.800332Christian StokkelandNorway75.600333Bertrand ’ElkY’ GrospellierFrance50.800334Christophe LarqueminFrance6.100335Fatima Moreira De MeloNetherlands32.300336Peyman LuthGermany78.800337Shakhabiddin MuradovLatvia142.500338Salvatore Candido GrazianoSwitzerland22.600341Anton DeglinneBelgium18.800342Thiago CremaBrazil128.700343Christopher GeorgeUnited States24.000344Alexey TkachenkoRussia21.700345Patrick SacrispeyreMorocco25.900346Adrian MateosSpain58.900347Aladin ReskallahFrance20.000348Ove StenbergNorway33.400351Dick PostelMalta12.000352Iliodoros KamatakisGreece105.000354Salvatore BiancoItaly127.900355Luiz DuarteUnited States43.100356Rafael MoraesBrazil53.400357Viacheslav GoryachevRussia23.100358Jose GonzalesArgentina62.000361Karen OliverUnited Kingdom78.000362Jerome BrionFrance55.400363Justin BonomoUnited States71.200365Hannes SpeiserAustria88.400366Konstantinos NanosGermany22.300367Kirill IvanovRussia86.900368Gianluca SperanzaItaly201.500371David UrbanSlovakia188.700372Tom-Aksel BedellNorway17.500373Giuseppe ZarboFrance36.000374Davidi KitaiBelgium109.800375Liv BoereeUnited Kingdom127.400376Maxim LykovRussia87.300378Diego ZeiterSwitzerland52.500382Marco WeidnerGermany31.600383Ke ChenChina84.300384Douglas Ferreira SouzaBrazil79.000385Wesley WongCanada21.000386Jean AubervalFrance49.600387Robert HaighGermany55.600388Chebli ChebliLebanon61.900391Andrea RocciItaly56.200392Alexandros KoloniasGreece29.000394Victor Zabukas BegaraBrazil83.800395Lucas GreenwoodCanada28.100396Aleksei IstominRussia144.600397Christopher FrankGermany152.000398Davor LaniniItaly90.100401Evgenii SboevRussia18.700402Alexandre LuneauFrance69.400403Andreas HoivoldNorway83.900404Vasyl ZabrodskyyUkraine146.400405Ivan GlushkovRussia25.200406Ian GillespieUnited States34.000407Yury SalikaevRussia63.200408Oystein ChristensenNorway38.500412Simon TaberhamUnited Kingdom61.800413Julien PirardBelgium28.300414Marius-Catalin PerteaRomania82.700415Gavin O’RourkeIreland11.000416Norberto KornGermany71.300418Alexios ZervosGreece31.800421Sebastien LebaronFrance21.500422Allan DyrstadNorway14.400423Lauren MonossonUnited States64.100424Mickael MamouFrance50.800425Sebastian MalecPoland140.100426Johny JabraRomania31.800427Gediminas KareckasLithuania62.700428Arno ThuyBelgium39.500431Jan BendikSlovakia67.800432Stefan VagnerSlovakia11.500433Michele BianchiSwitzerland58.700434Artan DedushaUnited Kingdom96.700436Stefan HuberSwitzerland96.000437Anil OzdemirTurkey39.500438Giorgio DonzelliItaly26.700441Geoffroy CombetteFrance44.800443Minh Phuc NguyenAustralia75.100444Francesco FaviaItaly101.000445Nicola D’AnselmoItaly53.600446Diego VenturaPeru126.100447Nicolas Fuentes VidalChile76.400448Sonny FrancoFrance33.700
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There have been representatives of many sports who have turned their hand to poker -- either during their playing days or, more usually, once they are over. These include the roster of Team PokerStars Sportstar, such as Rafa Nadal and Ronaldo, for instance, as well as various other footballers including Royston Drenthe, who once played for Real Madrid, and the former Orient player, Steve Watts.
Today in Prague, however, there’s an Australian ex-professional roller hockey player competing in the EPT Main Event, which is not a sentence PokerStars Blog would ever have expected to write. The principal reason is that there’s only ever been one Australian professional roller hockey player. The one and only Nicholas Galtos
His name is Nicholas Galtos, and it’s actually no fluke that he’s here in Prague today. It isn’t even his first visit here for poker as he finished 22nd in the main event in 2012. Since then Galtos has scored cashes in Edinburgh, Cork, Las Vegas, Valencia, Dublin and London and it doesn’t take long in his company to realise that the 56-year-old Aussie, who now calls Montreaux in Switzerland home, has had an interesting and varied life and has done it, for the most part, with a smile on his face. It’s also immediately apparent that he was destined for sporting career.
’My dad took over a bankrupt sports centre in Brisbane which had a skating rink, swimming pool and squash courts and we had an apartment above it,’ he says. ’So growing up there I was swimming every day in the morning, playing squash and hustling pool games, 9-ball and 8-ball when I was nine.’
His attention soon turned to the sport he would go on to make a living from: ’Then I started playing roller hockey and got pretty good at it. I was playing all the sports at school, as you do in Australia, but the roller hockey was something I loved and I ended up playing for the national team.’
Roller hockey is like ice hockey, but is played on a dry surface. There are two main types of the game, with the rules and equipment differing based on what sort of skates you play in. If you’re wearing inline skates, it is more like ice hockey but if you play in quad skates (four wheels) it makes the game more like football or basketball due to the greater manoeuvrability that the skates offer.
Galtos’s skills helped him travel the world and, in 1978, when he was 18, he travelled to Argentina for the World Championships. At the time Argentina was a country full of political uncertainty and was under rule of a military dictatorship. It didn’t stop the crowds coming out for sport, however, and Galtos played in front of a crowd of 14,000 in San Juan. ’The same year that they won the World Cup in football they also won the roller hockey World Championships,’ Galtos says.
The military rule extended off the pitch too. ’Each team had a bodyguard who would travel on the team bus,’ Galtos says. ’Ours was a guy called Guido. He had a huge pistol in his pocket all the time and you weren’t allowed out of the hotel on your own.’
Not that it stopped Galtos. ’I kind of fell in love with a girl there and I got suspended from the Australian team for three years because I snuck out with two other guys and went to meet this girl,’ he says. ’We climbed down drainpipes and we took off. I spoke Spanish, which helped, so we went out with these girls and then came back. I got caught, it was an embarrassing thing to happen, and they kicked me out for three years, but I got back in by 1982. I could still play for my club team but not the national team.’
After returning from Argentina, Galtos was soon off on his travels again. At 20, he played for a team in La Coruna, in northern Spain. He then returned to Australia to complete his studies, before another eventful trip to Europe in 1984. ’We were dropped off in Italy before we went to the World Championships,’ he says. ’In a warm-up match I scored four goals against some top Italian team. The president of this team was a millionaire and he told me he wanted me to sign for his team so I rung my wife and told her I was staying in Italy.’Galtos - got goals, got signed
While the game in Australia was strictly amateur, it was a different case in Europe. ’In Australia, we’d be lucky if we got a thousand people but in the 1980s in Italy you’d get between 5,000 and 7,000 people at a game,’ he says. And back in the 1980s roller hockey had a higher profile than it does now and it was more than possible to make a decent living from the game.
’During EPT Barcelona I actually went back and saw one of my friends called Jordi who used to be the captain of FC Barcelona’s roller hockey team, which was the best team in the world in the 80s,’ Galtos says. ’He’s got pictures on the wall of him receiving awards as top sportsman of the year from the King of Spain. He was on the cover of all the top sports papers and magazines. I remember when I was playing fo
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On Day 1b of PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino® €5,300 Main Event, Italian player Gianluca Speranza finished with a narrow lead atop a tightly bunched group of players as 222 of 481 runners made it through the day. Speranza’s stack of 201,500 means Day 1a leader Jeff Hakim still paces the field by a wide margin.
The players got into the habit of throwing in their poker chips, as needed, for ’hero points’ allowing to reroll duff rolls, do extra damage, rapid heal wounds etc While the adventure was very hack’n’slash ( this time round: a giant crab and a large snake ), the best brawl came at the end of the evening when the four-strong party took on eight. Total life earnings: $161,482. Latest cash: $2,500 on 07-Dec-2019. Click here to see the details of Nicholas Galtos’ 35 cashes.PositionPlayerCountryChip Count1Gianluca SperanzaItaly201,5002Michael KolkowiczFrance197,3003Makram SaberLebanon192,0004Xavier RouayrouxFrance192,0005David UrbanSlovakia188,7006Raffaele SorrentinoItaly175,2007Remi CastaignonFrance160,0008Christopher FrankGermany152,0009Vasyl ZabrodskyyUkraine146,40010Aleksei IstominRussia144,600
*The one and only Nicholas Galtos His name is Nicholas Galtos, and it’s actually no fluke that he’s here in Prague today. It isn’t even his first visit here for poker as he finished 22nd in the main event in 2012.
*Monday, June 20, 2016 to Friday, June 24, 2016. Event #33: $1,500 Summer Solstice No-Limit Hold’em.
Meanwhile, one of poker biggest superstars of a few years also put in a good performance. Patrik Antonius, who still is one of the most recognizable faces in poker, turned back the clock a bit as he ran up the chip lead by dinner break before ultimately finishing with 102,200.
Antonius sat in during Level 4 and doubled his starting stack almost immediately.
Antonius, best known for his high-stakes cash exploits, also has over $6.7 million in tournament winnings but has only booked a single cash in the past three years as he moves farther and farther from the global tournament scene.Nick Galtos Poker Wife
Antonius sat in during Level 4 and doubled his starting stack almost immediately with a discerning call when he and an opponent each missed flush draws. Antonius did make a pair of fives, however, and called off on the river when his opponent put him all in.
Right before dinner, Antonius made a big move up the chip counts when four players saw an ace-king-three flop for a three-bet. Antonius held ace-three for two pair, and the player who three-bet was unable to get away from ace-queen, helping the Fin go to dinner with over 300 big blinds after he faded his opponent’s outs on the turn and river.
Other notables bagging over six figures included EPT Barcelona champ Sebastian Malec (140,200), PokerStars Team Pro Liv Boeree (127,400), recent PokerStars National Championship winner Andreas Klatt, Davidi Kitai and Tom Hall.
Jan Bendik who won the last EPT event here last year, also made it through, as did PokerStars Team Pros Daniel Negreanu, Igor Kurganov and Bertrand ’ElkY’ Grospellier.
Ryan Riess’ recent heater, including a WPT title in Florida, did not continue as he fizzled out after losing most of his stack to Jason Wheeler. Players joining him on the rail included Anthony Zinno, Paul Newey, Ami Barer, Ivan Luca and PokerStars Team Pro Felipe Ramos.
Day 1b’s field pushed the two-flight total for the event to 716 runners, and there’s still time for more to join them. Registration remains open until the noon restart, and PokerNews will pick up the coverage again then, so be sure to return for Day 2.TableSeatNameCountryChip Count11Stefan SchillhabelGermany203.00012Francesco GriecoItaly58.90014Craig VarnellUnited States115.70015Vicente DelgadoSpain107.00016Jose Vendrell SchwaigerGermany27.00017Marcin WysockiDenmark19.00018Mikko TurtiainenFinland37.70021Matthew HopkinsUnited Kingdom94.60022Ran AzorIsrael24.10023Patrik TkacSlovakia37.60024Salvatore PepiItaly39.50025Maria HoUnited States16.50026Mark TeltscherUnited Kingdom90.10027Dominik NitscheGermany26.20028Romain NardinFrance86.00031Igor KurganovRussia76.00032Peter EichhardtSweden121.90033John JuandaIndonesia45.90034Christoph VogelsangGermany69.50035Jack SalterUnited Kingdom75.80036Preben StokkanNorway54.60038Charlie CarrelUnited Kingdom48.40041Dmitrii DeviatovRussia15.40042Valerii LubenetsUkraine83.70043Daniel NegreanuCanada27.60045Ryan FranklinUnited States106.00046Leo NordinSweden28.70047Paul HoeferGermany12.10048Manuel SadornilSpain50.50052Jason MercierUnited States83.40053Alin GrasuRomania43.50054Vitaliy ImertsakiUkraine37.10055Hossein EnsanGermany80.00056Dermot BlainIreland37.00057Walid Bou HabibLebanon35.00058Luigi ContiItaly94.70061Firas NassarLebanon51.60062Micha de GraafBelgium93.40063Jimmy GuerreroFrance48.00064Sam GraftonUnited Kingdom12.00066Anton HrabchakUkraine48.70067Keven StammenUnited States38.70068Pascal HartmannGermany152.10071Tiberiu ZanfiracheRomania46.30072Andreas KlattGermany118.00073Yan LiChina50.50074Ariel MalnikLithuania78.30075Sindre TvedtNorway76.80077Steven MulderGermany20.60078Davy ChamorroFrance3.60081Cosmin Mihai PetricaRomania109.60082Govert MetaalNetherlands19.80083Lukasz KubickiPoland92.70084Onur UnsalTurkey115.80085Daniel SmithMonaco90.10087Johan GuilbertFrance47.40088Remi CastaignonFrance160.00091Morten MortensenDenmark96.80093Martin LundeNorway87.00094Benjamin PollakFrance53.80095Patrik AntoniusFinland102.20096Hideki TakafujiJapan70.70097Andrejs MaklecovsLatvia81.50098Alexandru PapazianRomania95.300101Nabil ChayaCanada31.700102Vladimir DemenkovRussia70.000103Roger TondeurSwitzerland77.000104Sergio AidoSpain52.300105Steve O’DwyerIreland24.200106Jogvan GlerfossFaroe Islands25.600107Paul-Francois TedeschiFrance60.400111Carlos ChangTaiwan109.300112Aurelien GuigliniFrance28.900113Børge SandsgaardNorway37.600114Krisztian FejerdiHungary7.500115Michel Pereira MarquesBrazil168.900117Giovanni LenaItaly67.900118Luke CerklewiczUnited Kingdom36.400122Nikolay NikolovBulgaria40.400123Markus DurneggerAustria106.400124Nick PetrangeloUnited States63.000125Moritz DietrichGermany77.900126Jeremy MamouFrance23.300127Nicolas PouzencFrance24.500128Henrik TollefsenNorway22.300132Tsugunari TomaJapan70.500133Martin JacobsonSpain25.900134Viktor ShenerRussia16.200135Emil PatelFinland46.100136Arne CoulierBelgium127.700137Rabah Ait-AbdelmalekFrance69.400138Michal VitkovskySlovakia94.000141Benjamin HeptinstallAustralia84.000142Carlos MironiukArgentina55.300143Hauke FickGermany49.700144Bas De LaatMalta56.200145Michel PomaretFrance55.000146Macsim RobertRomania42.400147Sergei PetrushevskiiRussia91.800148Philipp KoberAustria51.300151Karim NabiFrance59.500152Karim SouaidFrance131.000153Javier Gomez ZapateroSpain23.600154Franck MakaciFrance56.200155Marcin DziembalaPoland70.900156Mikalai VaskaboinikauBelarus57.500157Victoria Coren MitchellUnited Kingdom35.500158Clemente Malheiro CarreiraPortugal61.500161Sylvain LoosliFrance47.500162Ibrahim GhassanLebanon44.500163Fabiano KovalskiBrazil35.000164[Removed:43]France115.500165Jerome ArnouldFrance26.200166Kliment Roussev TarmakovCanada32.300167Thomas PopovCanada28.200168Michael KolkowiczFrance197.300171Maxim PanyakRussia84.600172Adrien AllainFrance73.000173Istvan BirizdoHungary61.200174Sergio CabreraUnited Kingdom24.000175Bart LybaertBelgium82.600176Marius GierseGermany77.700177Vasileios CharalampakisGreece72.000178Michael KoranSwitzerland30.200181Viliyan PetleshkovBulgaria129.600182Sebastian Ruiz FigueroaChile80.800183Andrew ChenCanada28.600184Paul GuichardFrance45.400185Ramin HajiyevAzerbaijan97.000186Ionut BodogaiRomania49.200187Adolfo VaezaUruguay65.300188Carole SegouraFrance73.400191Tommaso BriottiItaly17.400192Ramon Miquel MunozSpain121.500193Frederic CasaltaFrance25.500194Isaac HaxtonUnited States65.200195Manig LoeserGermany195.700196Arezki BelaidiCanada49.200197Jeffrey HakimLebanon305.300198Jullian FerioloFrance98.900201Tommy HjornerudNorway84.100203Makram SaberLebanon192.000204Emin AghayevAzerbaijan41.300205Dmytro ShuvanovUkraine136.100206Adi AlkalayIsrael105.800207Marco MasuttiSlovakia39.900208Jean KojaFrance90.000211Dan ColmanUnited States13.600212Ruslan MityayevUkraine28.100213James MitchellUnited Kingdom109.000214Adrian IonescuRomania38.400215[Removed:172]Germany35.200216Bradley MarshCanada88.300217Adrien DelmasFrance33.300218Robert PankowskiPoland33.000221Jerome L’HostisUnited Kingdom80.500223Michel EidLebanon49.900224Dan SmithUnited States49.100225Dzmitry RabotkinBelarus49.300226Simonet StephaneFrance53.400227Kosumosu YamanakaJapan23.800228Faraz JakaUnited States98.100231Carlos LopesFrance9.200232Waldemar NowakPoland19.000233Dirk Van LuijkBelgium52.300234[Removed:170]Lithuania94.000235Jerome SgorranoBelgium28.300236El Amir Ziad ChehabLebanon30.000237Jawad BengouraneFrance82.000238Nicholas GaltosSwitzerland24.100241Besiana AntoniAlbania13.600242Hau Minh NguyenAustralia78.200243Jean MonturyFrance35.000244Diego VilelaBrazil140.000245Raffaello LocatelliItaly64.800246Lee Hon CheongHong Kong10.400247Natasha BarbourCanada91.600248Florian KosslerGermany35.500251Benjamin SaadaFrance22.000252Matthew WhitingUnited Kingdom42.100253Juri MereuItaly55.000254Vishwanath ManjunathUnited Kingdom51.700255Jean Paul ZaffranIsrael41.400256Alexander DebusGermany36.600257Leonardo VilelaBrazil107.200258Benny GlaserUnited Kingdom56.100261Didier OrtizColombia38.100262Jason WheelerUnited States30.900263Oliver WeisGermany41.900264Mudasser HussainUnited Kingdom20.100265Thomas BergNorway83.100266Igor YaroshevskyyUkraine156.700267Maria LampropulosArgentina53.000268Laurynas LevinskasLithuania23.400271Isabel BaltazarFrance30.200272Lander LijoSpain40.800273Gaelle BaumannFrance49.200274Thomas MuehloeckerAustria18.200275Hicham MoussaNigeria56.500276Fabrice SoulierFrance105.100277Xavier RouayrouxFrance192.000278Muhyedine FaresSenegal54.900281Jacques TorbeyLebanon107.300282Bruno LopezFrance73.200283Stephen WoodheadUnited Kingdom55.800284Julio Martini FilhoBrazil60.800285Levan KaramanishviliUkraine53.300286Jean-Jacques ZeitounFrance60.000287Ole SchemionGermany144.900288Shijirbaatar SanjaasurenMongolia130.000291Tom HallUnited Kingdom102.000292Kent RoedNorway41.700293Maksim ShulgaRussia80.800294Alexandre MoreauFrance63.200295Rocco PalumboItaly105.900296Paul TestudFrance103.000297Aliaksei BoikaBelarus77.000298Edouard MignotFrance55.000301Harry TouilFrance18.700302Usman SiddiqueUnited Kingdom51.500303William SaadIvory Coast47.900304Kaue De SouzaBrazil44.300305Walery EngelGermany57.300306Espen SolaasNorway35.300307Cosmin Ionut DumitricuRomania78.200308Gerald KarlicAustria45.000311Raffaele SorrentinoItaly175.200312Daniel DvoressCanada44.200313Paul GreselNetherlands50.600314Aleksandar TomovicSerbia57.500315Rony HalimiFrance49.800316Romain LewisFrance82.100317Benoit LamFrance86.500318Celina LinAustralia125.500321Narcis-Gabriel NedelcuRomania103.300322Andrey BondarRussia49.200323Aleksandrs GolubevsUnited Kingdom25.900324Marius CazacuRomania5.100325Kyrylo KudymaUkraine73.000326Sebastien CompteFrance26.000327Donald Duarte SierraNicaragua43.200328Andrey VlasenkoRussia12.800331Artur SahakyanArmenia102.800332Christian StokkelandNorway75.600333Bertrand ’ElkY’ GrospellierFrance50.800334Christophe LarqueminFrance6.100335Fatima Moreira De MeloNetherlands32.300336Peyman LuthGermany78.800337Shakhabiddin MuradovLatvia142.500338Salvatore Candido GrazianoSwitzerland22.600341Anton DeglinneBelgium18.800342Thiago CremaBrazil128.700343Christopher GeorgeUnited States24.000344Alexey TkachenkoRussia21.700345Patrick SacrispeyreMorocco25.900346Adrian MateosSpain58.900347Aladin ReskallahFrance20.000348Ove StenbergNorway33.400351Dick PostelMalta12.000352Iliodoros KamatakisGreece105.000354Salvatore BiancoItaly127.900355Luiz DuarteUnited States43.100356Rafael MoraesBrazil53.400357Viacheslav GoryachevRussia23.100358Jose GonzalesArgentina62.000361Karen OliverUnited Kingdom78.000362Jerome BrionFrance55.400363Justin BonomoUnited States71.200365Hannes SpeiserAustria88.400366Konstantinos NanosGermany22.300367Kirill IvanovRussia86.900368Gianluca SperanzaItaly201.500371David UrbanSlovakia188.700372Tom-Aksel BedellNorway17.500373Giuseppe ZarboFrance36.000374Davidi KitaiBelgium109.800375Liv BoereeUnited Kingdom127.400376Maxim LykovRussia87.300378Diego ZeiterSwitzerland52.500382Marco WeidnerGermany31.600383Ke ChenChina84.300384Douglas Ferreira SouzaBrazil79.000385Wesley WongCanada21.000386Jean AubervalFrance49.600387Robert HaighGermany55.600388Chebli ChebliLebanon61.900391Andrea RocciItaly56.200392Alexandros KoloniasGreece29.000394Victor Zabukas BegaraBrazil83.800395Lucas GreenwoodCanada28.100396Aleksei IstominRussia144.600397Christopher FrankGermany152.000398Davor LaniniItaly90.100401Evgenii SboevRussia18.700402Alexandre LuneauFrance69.400403Andreas HoivoldNorway83.900404Vasyl ZabrodskyyUkraine146.400405Ivan GlushkovRussia25.200406Ian GillespieUnited States34.000407Yury SalikaevRussia63.200408Oystein ChristensenNorway38.500412Simon TaberhamUnited Kingdom61.800413Julien PirardBelgium28.300414Marius-Catalin PerteaRomania82.700415Gavin O’RourkeIreland11.000416Norberto KornGermany71.300418Alexios ZervosGreece31.800421Sebastien LebaronFrance21.500422Allan DyrstadNorway14.400423Lauren MonossonUnited States64.100424Mickael MamouFrance50.800425Sebastian MalecPoland140.100426Johny JabraRomania31.800427Gediminas KareckasLithuania62.700428Arno ThuyBelgium39.500431Jan BendikSlovakia67.800432Stefan VagnerSlovakia11.500433Michele BianchiSwitzerland58.700434Artan DedushaUnited Kingdom96.700436Stefan HuberSwitzerland96.000437Anil OzdemirTurkey39.500438Giorgio DonzelliItaly26.700441Geoffroy CombetteFrance44.800443Minh Phuc NguyenAustralia75.100444Francesco FaviaItaly101.000445Nicola D’AnselmoItaly53.600446Diego VenturaPeru126.100447Nicolas Fuentes VidalChile76.400448Sonny FrancoFrance33.700
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There have been representatives of many sports who have turned their hand to poker -- either during their playing days or, more usually, once they are over. These include the roster of Team PokerStars Sportstar, such as Rafa Nadal and Ronaldo, for instance, as well as various other footballers including Royston Drenthe, who once played for Real Madrid, and the former Orient player, Steve Watts.
Today in Prague, however, there’s an Australian ex-professional roller hockey player competing in the EPT Main Event, which is not a sentence PokerStars Blog would ever have expected to write. The principal reason is that there’s only ever been one Australian professional roller hockey player. The one and only Nicholas Galtos
His name is Nicholas Galtos, and it’s actually no fluke that he’s here in Prague today. It isn’t even his first visit here for poker as he finished 22nd in the main event in 2012. Since then Galtos has scored cashes in Edinburgh, Cork, Las Vegas, Valencia, Dublin and London and it doesn’t take long in his company to realise that the 56-year-old Aussie, who now calls Montreaux in Switzerland home, has had an interesting and varied life and has done it, for the most part, with a smile on his face. It’s also immediately apparent that he was destined for sporting career.
’My dad took over a bankrupt sports centre in Brisbane which had a skating rink, swimming pool and squash courts and we had an apartment above it,’ he says. ’So growing up there I was swimming every day in the morning, playing squash and hustling pool games, 9-ball and 8-ball when I was nine.’
His attention soon turned to the sport he would go on to make a living from: ’Then I started playing roller hockey and got pretty good at it. I was playing all the sports at school, as you do in Australia, but the roller hockey was something I loved and I ended up playing for the national team.’
Roller hockey is like ice hockey, but is played on a dry surface. There are two main types of the game, with the rules and equipment differing based on what sort of skates you play in. If you’re wearing inline skates, it is more like ice hockey but if you play in quad skates (four wheels) it makes the game more like football or basketball due to the greater manoeuvrability that the skates offer.
Galtos’s skills helped him travel the world and, in 1978, when he was 18, he travelled to Argentina for the World Championships. At the time Argentina was a country full of political uncertainty and was under rule of a military dictatorship. It didn’t stop the crowds coming out for sport, however, and Galtos played in front of a crowd of 14,000 in San Juan. ’The same year that they won the World Cup in football they also won the roller hockey World Championships,’ Galtos says.
The military rule extended off the pitch too. ’Each team had a bodyguard who would travel on the team bus,’ Galtos says. ’Ours was a guy called Guido. He had a huge pistol in his pocket all the time and you weren’t allowed out of the hotel on your own.’
Not that it stopped Galtos. ’I kind of fell in love with a girl there and I got suspended from the Australian team for three years because I snuck out with two other guys and went to meet this girl,’ he says. ’We climbed down drainpipes and we took off. I spoke Spanish, which helped, so we went out with these girls and then came back. I got caught, it was an embarrassing thing to happen, and they kicked me out for three years, but I got back in by 1982. I could still play for my club team but not the national team.’
After returning from Argentina, Galtos was soon off on his travels again. At 20, he played for a team in La Coruna, in northern Spain. He then returned to Australia to complete his studies, before another eventful trip to Europe in 1984. ’We were dropped off in Italy before we went to the World Championships,’ he says. ’In a warm-up match I scored four goals against some top Italian team. The president of this team was a millionaire and he told me he wanted me to sign for his team so I rung my wife and told her I was staying in Italy.’Galtos - got goals, got signed
While the game in Australia was strictly amateur, it was a different case in Europe. ’In Australia, we’d be lucky if we got a thousand people but in the 1980s in Italy you’d get between 5,000 and 7,000 people at a game,’ he says. And back in the 1980s roller hockey had a higher profile than it does now and it was more than possible to make a decent living from the game.
’During EPT Barcelona I actually went back and saw one of my friends called Jordi who used to be the captain of FC Barcelona’s roller hockey team, which was the best team in the world in the 80s,’ Galtos says. ’He’s got pictures on the wall of him receiving awards as top sportsman of the year from the King of Spain. He was on the cover of all the top sports papers and magazines. I remember when I was playing fo
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