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 Italy has finally won an EPT event.  Or more precisely an Italian has.   That Italian is Salvatore Bonavena.  The event being the EPT Prague.

 570 Entrants.  Buy-in 5250 Euros

1 € 774,000 Salvatore Bonavena  
2 € 445,000 Massimo Di Cicco  
3 € 257,000 Andrew Alan Chen  
4 € 199,000 Alexiou Konstantinos  
5 € 166,000 Francesco Cirianni  
6 € 130,000 Fredrik Nygard  
7 € 99,500 Nasr El Nasr  
8 € 71,800 Raul Mestre  
9 € 42,800 Sebastian Ruthenberg  
10 € 42,800 Jonathan Duhamel  
11 € 30,400 Daniel Drescher  
12 € 30,400 Igor Rejdovjan  
13 € 22,100 Juan Maceiras  
14 € 22,100 Domenico Iannonne  
15 € 16,600 Rifat Pavelic  
16 € 16,600 Dan Pedersen  
17 € 13,800 Jens Glud Hansen  
18 € 13,800 Daniel Biro

Notable finishes for Johnny Lodden in 43rd, Dario Minieri in 47th, and Juha Helppi in 48th

Displine plays such a huge part in poker.  But that doesnt mean an ill-displined player cannot be successful, because they can be…potentially.  It just means they need to make the right choices of what sort of poker to get involved in.

You can be successful in the long term with discipline problems if you play only large field MTTs.  On one day it can all come good, and a hyper aggressive borderline kamikaze approach can pay off with a big win.   All those times where you grew impatient or couldnt be bothered to concentrate become irrelevant.  Getting their once or twice can be enough to float your bankroll for a very long time, even after a chunky withdrawal.

 However on the flip side, SNGs and Cash tables always require discipline.  You are grinding a margin, and exploiting small edges on a consistant basis.  You play volume, and need to be hitting the ball dead-center all the time over that volume.  Regular mistakes/weakneses will kill your bankroll over time.  

If you recognise yourself as having discipline problems (often impatient or reckless) then you are best to avoid the SNGs/Cash tables and concentrate solely on the MTTs.    Good Luck to you.