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Perhaps it is the air of Sanremo, or perhaps the lure of Italy's most important tournament, the fact is that the 2024 edition allows another small milestone to be crossed.
It never happened here in Sanremo that the IPO Main Event reached 256 entries on the opening day: in the year of records the counter stopped at 255. A total of 42 qualified for Day 2 via Day1 A.
The best of them all? Giancarlo Crobeddu, is a regular in these parts even though he comes from Sulcis (Sardinia). Here are his words after bagging the stack:
"How did my tournament go? I had quite a bit of luck. I had the best hand even when I didn't get in the shot! It happened in a spot where I was going to put with 8-8, but in the end, I preferred to preserve the stack, even though at showdown, my opponents had A-Q, A-Q, and A-K, and the board was all low cards.
Joking aside, I'm really happy with how it went. I played tighter than I usually do by waiting for the right hands, and I was rewarded."
The Top 5
In addition to the aforementioned Giancarlo, chip leader with 705,000 chips, we find the Frenchman Mehdi Dhouimer (600,000), who, in the final round, put on a little show by going all-in in the dark against an opponent at the table on two occasions. At first, he succumbed, but in the next hand, he managed to win over 250,000 chips by eliminating his opponent with A-4o against 9-6o.
Third position for Diego De Martino (519,000), followed by Andrew King with 461,000 and Loana Silvana Apostol (450,000). Below is the complete list of the 42 qualifiers.
Unofficial Chipcount
1 CROBEDDU Giancarlo 705 000 (176 BB)
2 DHOUIMER Mehdi 600 000 (150 BB)
3 DE MARTINO Diego 519 000 (130 BB)
4 KING Andrew 461 000 (115 BB)
5 APOSTOL Ioana Silvana 450 000 (113 BB)
6 LAMI-CHAPPUIS Bertrand 409 000 (102 BB)
7 MAESTRAN Sebastien 375 000 (94 BB)
8 FAJNDAN Jacques 356 000 (89 BB)
9 MAGNOLI Arcangelo 352 000 (88 BB)
10 MORAREAU Eric 342 000 (86 BB)
11 DEBUE David 341 000 (85 BB)
12 DENILANT Eric 314 000 (79 BB)
13 CHASTREUX Louis 298 000 (75 BB)
14 SAIA Victor 294 000 (74 BB)
15 CORONELLA Marco 271 000 (68 BB)
16 VANLOOT Robin 270 000 (68 BB)
17 MARIANI Laurent 256 000 (64 BB)
18 SUPPA Francesco 244 000 (61 BB)
19 MANFREDINI Alessandro 243 000 (61 BB)
20 SEMINO Lorenzo 230 000 (58 BB)
21 TASCA Roberto 219 000 (55 BB)
22 LOUINI Kareem 210 000 (53 BB)
23 MOSCONI Marcello 200 000 (50 BB)
24 PELLEGRINO Luca 183 000 (46 BB)
25 VILLEFROY Alexandre 182 000 (46 BB)
26 BENSEMBOUF Jean-Claud 177 000 (44 BB)
27 PASTORE Massimiliano 174 000 (44 BB)
28 BOTTARO Andrea 159 000 (40 BB)
29 ARICO Mirco 156 000 (39 BB)
30 MONTICCIOLO Alessandro 139 000 (35 BB)
31 NAPOLITANO Giovanni 139 000 (35 BB)
32 CUCAI Roberto 138 000 (35 BB)
33 LRUPEUK Zamra 130 000 (33 BB)
34 LAOUINI Shamsebin 124 000 (31 BB)
35 EMANUEL Ramos 115 000 (29 BB)
36 RISCALZATI Francesco 114 000 (29 BB)
37 TORREILLES Charles 99 000 (25 BB)
38 COSTANTIN Eric 94 000 (24 BB)
39 ONNIS Sandro 63 000 (16 BB)
40 DI GIORGIO Gianluca 45 000 (11 BB)
41 MORRER Fabien 44 000 (11 BB)
42 SUPPA Raffaele 42 000 (11 BB)
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