Minieri Still In The Hunt
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The poker world has seen a huge increase in aggressive play over the last couple of years and if you wanted to pinpoint someone at the very forefront at this change, certainly in Europe, then Dario Minieri would be your man. He's always playing a large pot, just picking up around 5,000 with a bet of 3,700 on the turn of a 
board.
Minieri first burst onto the poker scene when he placed 3rd in Baden back in EPT Season 3. His super-aggressive preflop style at the time was something other people weren't ready for at the time as very few people were being as active as he was back then.
Minieri hit further 3rd places in the EPT's at San Remo and Warsaw in the spring and autumn of 2008 and a much wanted bracelet win at the WSOP in between these. The interesting thing about this though is that the game has caught up, to a certain degree, with his style and results have not been quite as great as his purple patch year of 2008. However the young Italian is perhaps no longer as rough and raw as he was a few years ago, he has been forced to adapt his game to stay ahead of the curb.
One thing remains the same though, his style demands, in fact, craves a big stack to work with. So Minieri will always be in big pots early, finishing late with a huge stack or early with no stack, grinding is not something he does.