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Never before had so many been seen in a single flight. The players who crowded the tables in the main room of the King's Resort to take part in Day1 G of the IPS Main Event were the unwitting protagonists of a new small record, a further step forward for a brand like Italian Poker Sport which this year celebrates its first 10 years of life.
The 1,277 entries are the highest number reached so far: last year, the year of the edition with the record number of total entries, the peak had been reached at Day1 G but the counter had stopped at 1,274.
The raw numbers, however, don't give you an idea of the atmosphere at King's: "I've been working here for less than a year, but more than 830 physical players seated at the tables at the same time I hadn't even seen at the WSOPE," said one of the many, talented, dealers involved in these fiery days, to say the least.
To overtake a field of over 1,200 players you certainly don't have to be unlucky, and the Italian Wissam Ouertani (photo below), who in addition to his good run knows his way around, was rewarded for his audacity:
"Am I chipleader? - commented Wissam at the end of the day - "How did it go? It was a tournament where for five hours I didn't play a single hand. Then I won a 70-30 (Q-Q>AQ ed.) and that gave me some breathing space and at level 3/6 thousand came the hand that brought me up in the count.
I open J-Ts from the cut-off and the blinds defend. The flop comes Q-9-3 with two Diamonds, small checks, BB leads, I call and small also calls. On a K at the turn, which makes me hit nut flush, I bet half-pot, SB folds, and BB plays. The Turn is irrelevant, a 7 if I remember correctly, I bet 70% pot and BB calls showing Double Pair.
The decisive blow though, by pot size, was K-K vs Q-Q for about 500,000 total chips. I'm glad I closed with 100 blinds, it happened last year but I didn't make it through, let's try again this year!"
The Top 5
The performance of Wissam Ouertani, chip leader with 1,232,000, is worth 5th place in the overall count. That of the Czech "CARLISLE" on the other hand, second today with 1,164,000 chips, puts him in eighth place.
There are only 16 players who have crossed the million chip threshold at the moment: Rachid Allouch, third in the count with 1,140,000, is one of them.
Completing the Top 5 are Italian Vincenzo Merola (1,044,000) and Romanian Alexandru Budai (1,026,000). Also qualifying are Italians Sergio Regalbuto (735,000), Martino Cito (626,000), Gianmarco Martini 294,000, as well as last April's EPM champion Stefan Alexandru Drusca (231,000).
Unofficial Chipcount
Wissam Ouertani Italy 1232000
CARLISLE Czech Republic 1164000
Rachid Allouch Germany 1140000
Vincenzo Merola Italy 1044000
Alexandru Budai Romania 1026000
Michele Mercurio Italy 994000
YamR46 Germany 980000
Sandor Gal Hungary 959000
Frex Germany 927000
Jaroslav Bartak Slovakia 880000
Gregor Eberharter Austria 844000
Biagio Morciano Italy 830000
Salvatore Panzera Italy 813000
Alexander Denk Germany 806000
Tamas Geiger Hungary 766000
Gergely Voeroes Hungary 753000
Daniel Dobrev Iordanov Bulgaria 745000
Mark Michael Von Wartburg Switzerland 738000
Sergio Vincenzo Regalbuto Italy 735000
Goekhan Guengoer Turkey 729000
Marc Treffer Germany 719000
Goran Curic Croatia 718000
Bogdan Alexandru Bogorin Romania 718000
Luigi Lavigna Italy 715000
Ngoc Minh Hoang Czech Republic 689000
Marijan Tadic Croatia 673000
Miroslav Zitka Czech Republic 670000
Peter Kamaras Hungary 668000
Redouan Bettioui Belgium 651000
Yakov Bar El Israel 645000
Sergei Konovalov Russian Federation 642000
Dawid Andrzej Moschko Germany 639000
Silas Germann Switzerland 626000
Martino Cito Italy 626000
Filib Yacoub Switzerland 626000
Giovanni Crescimone Italy 612000
Lars Kooistra Netherlands 602000
Anton Riad Bishara Bulgaria 577000
Felix Belz Germany 573000
Mario Magistro Italy 573000
Galina Stoyanova Tsexova Bulgaria 563000
Gheorghe Pop Romania 553000
Tobias Andree Germany 547000
Dennis Germany 543000
Gianpaolo Schiraldi Italy 542000
Goran Lukac Switzerland 530000
Tommaso Bentivoglio Italy 527000
Vasileios Kollias Greece 491000
Daniel Granov Czech Republic 482000
Domenico Masella Italy 471000
Jerome Julien Stritmatter France 466000
Florian Bock Germany 462000
Patrick Christian Wolff Germany 452000
Omar Regent Czech Republic 440000
Tomas Chovanec Slovakia 439000
QUESO MANCHEGO Germany 429000
Jiri Noga Czech Republic 427000
Bernard Daniel P Fach Belgium 423000
MFG777 Germany 413000
Wolfgang Schloegelhofer Austria 406000
Vitoldas Rogoza Lithuania 405000
Oleg Jdan Moldova, Republic of 404000
Ilkay Mutlu Belgium 397000
Giovanni Panariti Italy 389000
Federica Fabiani Italy 389000
Giorgio Soceanu Italy 388000
Zeljko Gadzic Croatia 382000
ONE7TWO Slovenia 382000
Svajunas Seduikis Lithuania 373000
Adam Stanislaw Siwicki Poland 372000
Gabriel Iemmito Italy 355000
MINGGU Switzerland 343000
PiuPiu Israel 339000
Mauro Spurio Italy 339000
Dariusz Robert Charski Poland 335000
Agostino Aleazzi Italy 332000
Mirza Sweden 332000
Csaba Kilin Borsos Spain 331000
Amar Reso Italy 328000
Albert Kolmberger Germany 325000
SchweiniFFM Germany 325000
Markus Niklaus Switzerland 324000
Ralph Dittmar Germany 322000
Jan Farkas Czech Republic 319000
Daniele Vesco Italy 319000
Dragos Constantin Grigore Belgium 316000
Carlo Gamba Italy 315000
Angelo Augusto Carminati Italy 315000
Alfredo Ranaudo Italy 311000
Branislav Ondrus Slovakia 301000
Gianmarco Martini Italy 294000
Salvatore Bifulco Italy 285000
Andrea Fabrizi Italy 274000
Ferat Uysal Turkey 274000
Miguel Caballero Costa Spain 268000
Frank D. Germany 266000
Leroy Germany 266000
Demba Germany 265000
BETON Czech Republic 262000
Milan Kolar Czech Republic 261000
Hendrik Nicolaas Mari Kremers Netherlands 255000
Barry Germany 255000
Beton Turkey 248000
Christoph Hillinger Austria 240000
Michele Tocci Italy 237000
Andrija Vujic Croatia 235000
Maciej Ludwik Kondraszuk Poland 234000
Sandro Danilo Piccinno Italy 231000
Stefan Alexandru Drusca United Kingdom 231000
Stefan Wittmann Germany 231000
kamikaze Germany 228000
Amatore Terrafino Italy 223000
Paweł Piotr Staszewski Poland 220000
Vladimir Minarik Slovakia 214000
Mr Andrei Manoliu United Kingdom 214000
Yves Paul Ober France 213000
Just4Fun@Kings Netherlands 210000
Robert Marcu Romania 208000
Robert Bunn Germany 206000
Krzysztof Janusz Sikorski Poland 204000
Michal Cep Czech Republic 203000
Alessandro De Michele Italy 200000
Stanislav Tsekov Tomov Bulgaria 199000
Tomasz Kopec Poland 196000
ARIC 69 Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of 194000
Florin Adrian Bilan Romania 186000
Bogdan Nicolae Ilies Romania 182000
Michele Nizzardelli Italy 181000
Nikos Nikolaou Greenland 169000
CallWayne Germany 161000
klokan Czech Republic 161000
Sandro Pitzanti Netherlands 160000
Hendrik Kwiatkowski Germany 158000
DRAX Czech Republic 156000
MONTANA Germany 154000
Antonios Georgiadias Greece 152000
Walter Nardelli Italy 152000
JABU 69 Germany 145000
Scottie Duane Howington United States 145000
Yaacov Adir Elharar Israel 144000
Alessandro Luccheddu Italy 140000
FILIPKOT Poland 140000
Viktor Herr Germany 133000
Mozzart Croatia 132000
LUKARELL0 Czech Republic 125000
Dogan Guengoer Switzerland 124000
Luca Angella Italy 116000
Catalin Paul Diac Romania 113000
Roberto Di Giuseppe Italy 107000
Ehud Agnon Israel 94000
Patrick Schwarz Germany 89000
Todor Ivkovikj Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of 87000
Dawid Lelito Poland 80000
Marius NIXON Romania 54000
Natale Allegra Italy 45000
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