PokerPages.com Poker News - 2008 World Poker Tour Festa Al Lago

We are less than a week away from the start of the World Poker Tour Festa Al Lago Main Event. The Festa Al Lago stop wasn't a part of the WPT's Season VI schedule, but will return to the Bellagio in Las Vegas for six days, beginning on October 20th.

Vivek Rajkumar was the last WPT made-millionaire to be crowned, after the Seattle native pocketed $1.4 million for a win at the Borgata Poker Open last month at the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. Just days ago, Glen Witmer of Waterloo, ON, Canada, took down the North American Poker Championship in Niagara Falls, worth a $1 million payday. After about a week at the Bellagio tables, one player will be handed a small fortune for his or her win at the 2008 Festa Al Lago.

In 2006, Andreas Walnum of Norway outlasted 432 others and a tough final table to take home the largest portion of the $4.2 million prize pool, the $1 million first-place-prize. Walnum's two red deuces were able to hold off eventual runner-up finisher Steve Wong.

Final table results:

1	Andreas Walnum (Bodo, Norway)	$1,090,025
2	Steve Wong AKA "S 18" (Hoofddorp, Netherlands)	$542,700
3	Joe Pelton (Newport Beach, CA, USA)	$292,220
4	Christopher W. Loveland (Hollis, NH, USA)	$187,745
5	David Baker AKA "DB" (Katy, TX, USA)	$125,240
6	Can Kim Hua AKA "CK" (Rosemead, CA, USA)	$83,490

Live coverage of the 2008 WPT Festa Al Lago main event begins Monday, October 20th. Opening day coverage will be posted here.

Click here to read 2006 Festa Al Lago final table coverage.

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