On April 15, PokerStars.it increased the variety of Spin & Go games available in Italy's ring-fenced market and introduced new €25 buy-in games featuring a €300,000 total guaranteed prize pool. Only few hours after the launch, "borggiorg", a 57-year-old player from Milan, left the tables €250,000 richer, as he took down the top prize in what is the richest Spin & Go tournament ever played in the country.
"I just wasn't ready for that," the player told the PokerStars Blog. "My heart started to beat incredibly fast as soon as that prize came up on the screen.