Chip Counts at Dinner Break

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Level 10: 1,000/1,500 (1,500) Entries: 969/1,908 The players are now on a 75-minute dinner break. In roughly one hour, they will resume play on Level 10. I wandered the tournament area and identified some of the biggest stacks. Player Chips Big Blinds Mike Alonso 365,000 243 Evangelos Argyris 322,000 215 Robert Previsic 312,500 208 Andreas…

Everyone Loves a Chopped Pot

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Level 8: 6,000/1,200 (1,200) Entries: 1,096/1,876 Seated UTG, Mauro Pugliesi attempted to limp. Domenico Persico wouldn’t allow it, though, as he raised to 3,500. The tricky Pugliesi then moved all in for 33,000 in total, and Persico made the call. Mauro Pugliesi: Domenico Persico: “Booooring,” I thought to myself as the board spelled out .…

Day 1e Chip Counts

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Day 1e of the €600 Main Event attracted 922 entries. Below are the chip counts for those 138 who made it through to Day 2. Position Name Chips 1 Ruggero Magri 1,520,000 2 Enea Soumpasi Or Subashi 785,000 3 Alberto Sanchez Galiano 772,000 4 Kristian Previsic 619,000 5 Philip Cole 573,000 6 Giuseppe Ciancio 572,000…

Day 1f Survivors

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Now that our full reporting function has returned, we’re finally able to deliver the chip counts from yesterday’s starting flights. Day 1e counts coming soon, but here’s the chip counts of the Day 1f survivors. Jonny Tang bagged the largest stack of just over 700,000 chips and won the big stack bonus of a €1,500…

Anticlimax

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Level 7: 500/1,000 (1,000) Entries: 1,176/1,784 I was thrilled to witness the festivites at Table 69. Alessandro Marano opened to 2,300 from UTG+1, and Carmelo Contursi (Hi-jack), Ioannis Kritsotakis (Cut-off), Vincenzo Scarfogliero (Button), Taago Tamm (Small Blind), and Alessio Vichi (Big Blind) all made the call. “What a treat,” I was thinking to myself; six…