/ Matthew Pitt / 21 July 2011 / Leave a Comment 
If you look at the attendances for any major European poker tournament, be it a World Poker Tour or European Poker Tour you will discover a quite telling trend when it comes to tournaments held in France and Italy. The trend is that events held in these two countries are always the best attended and by a large margin.
Is this because France and Italy are beautiful countries and the perfect places to have a break from life? Possibly and I certainly wouldn't not argue with that fact but I can tell you the real reason if you want me to. Yes? It's because the completely suck at poker and when I say suck it is because there are not enough negative non-swear words to describe how the vast majority of them are. They are truly terrible.
I used to think the French were the worst players but after covering WPT Slovenia over the last week I now state that our Italian brothers and the worst poker nation on the planet. Never have I seen so many fundamentally wrong plays made by so many people in such a short period of time, you would honestly think this was a $2 rebuy not a €3,300 World Poker Tour Main Event.
Over the course of the week I have seen on Italian lose 630,000 chips in an hour by calling three-bet shoves with the likes of ace-ten off and betting twice the pot on the river with king-high when it polarised his range so badly it was not even funny. I've also seen players, Italian ones, open-limp the button and then fold with six big blinds, seriously, and then one Italian dude folded ace-king blind versus blind on the bubble despite getting more than three and a half to one. Absolutely terrible I can tell you.
Today is the final table of WPT Slovenia and despite not having anyone to root for after Toby Lewis, Thomas Macdonald and John Eames busted out I am looking forward to it just so I can have a giggle at the play by the majority of the fishes out there! Talking of Eames, his was involved in a hand that was just horrible. The spewy Italian fish mentioned above opened with a raise from MP, a Finnish dude three-bet shoved for 116,000, Eames reshoved for 135,000 and the spewmeister called, with AdQd of all hands, LOLERSKATES! The Finnish dude held AhTh and Eames JcJd. The flop came down Js-6c-5h and Eames was now more than a 95% favourite to win a 400,000+ pot, but the turn was the 3h and the river the 7h and the Finn won with his runner-runner flush. So sick, but he took it well despite never recovering from it.
I've learned a lot from the British players this week, just by listening to them talk amongst each other and when they've answered questions about hands I've seen them play. You can see why players who live together and travel together get better at the game than those of us who don't have that opportunity, I guess I am lucky that I get to rub shoulders with them from time to time.
Well I better disappear now as there is less than 20 minutes to the final table starts and I need to prepare a few things. Before my next entry I am going to start a campaign to let the Italians back into worldwide online poker because if they are allowed we will be all rich! This time next year Rodders.....
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