Dec 18, 20235 min read

🤴Marino Valerio's sliding door

Entries 588/ Left 47

Flashback. We are in the last levels of play of Day 1E, Marino Valerio from Cut Off pins two Aces and decides to play them in trapping, after the opening of a very closed player.

The Big Dark opts for a squeeze, the original raiser folds, and Marino, consistent with his line, simply calls. The flop reads 10♥️ 9♣️ 8♥️ the squeezer bets 1/3 of the pot, call. The turn is a 4♠️, his opponent has about a pot-size bet and goes all-in.

Marino calls and has to face a Pair of Nines (or better, a flopped set). His hopes of staying in the tournament are hanging by a thread, there are only two more Aces in the deck (at least in theory, not knowing what the other players folded preflop), which, translated into numbers, is roughly equal to a 4 percent chance of winning.

Marino Valerio

Flashforward. We are on Day 2 B, Marino is sitting in seat 7 with a huge amount of chips. He writes the highest number on the envelope compared to everyone else left in the game (including the qualifiers from Day 2 A). That Ace, in the end, came out for real.

If we happened to be in one of the other 24 parallel universes we would be telling you a different story, but in the one from which we are writing to you the good Marino not only managed to close Day1 as chip leader, but on Day2 he even managed to quintuple his stack by exceeding 2.5 million. How? We let him tell us:

"Tough redraw with 4/5 reg, which is why in the first three levels I remained very cautious preserving the stack. The first double-up came with K♠️ K♦️ in a spot where BB defends with Q♠️ 9♥️ my opening from UTG, on the flop he cashes 9-8-3 with two Spades and we end up all-in.

Then I switched tables and I have to admit that I ran fairly well, saw a lot of cards, and, also thanks to my stack, managed to win several uncontested pots in the bubble phase. The biggest pot I won with A-K suited on my 4-bet: he dropped J-10-9 with two Hearts with his opponent having flatted the 4-bet with Q-10 from BTN. Turn Q♥️...From there on a few more uncontested pots and here I am!"

The tournament

It started at 5:30 p.m. with a half-hour delay compared to the time indicated in the schedule, as the morning flight speed ended precisely at 5:00 p.m. Thanks to the 71 entries (with 24 qualifiers) the entry count reached 840, generating a €259,450 prize pool bestowed in this way:

€196,000 constituted the tournament prize money
15,000€ was awarded as the chip leader prize on Days 1B and C.
35,000€ is allocated to the top 3 Teams (20K to 1st, 10K to 2nd, and 5K to 3rd)
12,950€ will be awarded to the top 37 finishers in the form of 350€ tickets to the next Grand Final

The action lasted until about 2:30 a.m., with a rather long bubble phase that saw the survivors engaged for a full two hours from 50 left to 47, the time of the bubble burst as well as the closing of the Day.

The Top 5

Marino Valerio (team "#Tuttoacaso"), as mentioned in the opening, leads the ranks with 2,510,000 chips, followed by the Day1 A chip leader, Adrian Lovin Sorin, at 2,409,000. In the third position, however, we find the chip leader at the beginning of the Day, Davide Clodomiro with 2,271,000.

Given the huge stack to be administered, the Calabrian player could afford to wait for the right spot, which came in the form of a preflop cooler against Davide Nutarelli: Aces for Davide, A-K for the DJ, who abandons the tournament a few steps away from the bubble.

Fourth place for Gabriele Farris (Sardinia Poker Team), with 2,249,000, while in fifth place there is room for the man who is not afraid to call himself the greatest player in the world, the very nice Niki Prela at 1,884,000.

Continuing in the ranking including Day2 A and B obviously, we find several well-known names in the Eurorounders circuit and not only, starting with number 11, Alessandro Scermino (1,226,000) and continuing with the chip leader at Day1F Corrado Luigi (22nd at 928. 000), Romano Ravaioli (37th at 554,000), Davide Cojaniz (39th 496,000), Lorenzo Acampora (41st at 475,000), Federico Anselmi (49th at 362,000), Maurizio Migliorini (54th at 275,000), Roberto Roberti (56th at 254,000) and Edoardo Fattorini (66th at 133,000).

Unofficial Chipcount

POS. SURNAME NAME CHIPS TABLE SEAT

VALERIO MARINO 2510000 29 8
LOVIN SORIN ADRIAN 2409000 25 9
CLODOMIRO DAVIDE 2271000 23 5
FARRIS GABRIELE 2249000 31 8
NIKI PRELA 1884000 24 2
BEGOVIĆ AMAR 1656000 30 6
PALMISANO PAOLO 1360000 28 6
RIGA PAOLO 1312000 28 2
NEGREA LUCIAN-CORNEL 1300000 30 7
CARRARO THOMAS 1270000 24 5
SCERMINO ALESSANDRO 1226000 31 5
IZZO ANDREA 1200000 23 1
COLOMBO GIORGIO 1172000 25 2
MOLITERNO VITO 1152000 29 6
BOI STEFANO 1118000 28 4
MASCIALE CARMINE 1086000 30 1
PREVEDELLO DELLI SANTI LUCIANO 1080000 24 7
VANONCINI NUNZIO 1020000 23 4
PIZZICOLI MATTEO 1014000 31 4
TAGLIENTE STEFANO 995000 25 3
GEIGER ANDRE WOLFGANG 950000 29 4
CORRADO LUIGI 928000 28 7
VIDIC TIM 900000 30 10
MARINZULICH STEFANO 856000 24 1
GREGORACE FRANCESCO 805000 31 6
PERCOSSI LUIGI 721000 23 10
MANCUSO DARIO 655000 25 6
BEČIĆ EDIS 634000 29 9
CAMPI ANDREA 624000 28 1
ZAMPERETTI CHRISTOPHER 618000 30 4
HODŽIĆ SEJDEFA 615000 24 9
DA PONTE ALESSANDRO 614000 23 8
ĐORĐEVIĆ ZORAN 593000 25 5
SIENA NICOLA 592000 29 2
FORNASIERO TOMMASO 588000 31 1
LEVORATO ALESSANDRO 585000 28 8
RAVAIOLI ROMANO 554000 30 9
CAIAZZO UMBERTO 505000 24 3
COJANIZ DAVIDE 496000 25 1
BRICCOLA ALESSANDRO FELICE 487000 23 7
ACAMPORA LORENZO 475000 29 3
CAMPEDELLI ALESSANDRO 467000 31 7
VISPI MARCO 460000 28 9
BILLI FABRIZIO 426000 30 5
DAFFINI DAVIDE 416000 24 8
ROMANO DOMENICO 404000 29 5
CASELLA MARCO 378000 23 9
SULIS SAVERIO SALVATORE 373000 25 8
ANSELMI FEDERICO 362000 31 9
CORDI' DOMENICO 350000 28 3
CHOI KYUNG OK 318000 30 8
MONELLO MARCO 276000 24 4
MASCOLO ENRICO 275000 23 3
MIGLIORINI MAURIZIO 275000 25 7
CIMERA DEAN 272000 31 2
ROBERTI ROBERTO 254000 29 1
MITROVIĆ HRVOJE 231000 28 5
QUILICHINI LUCA 217000 30 3
GULLOTTI CARMELO 216000 24 10
LODDO LINO 215000 23 2
KONTIĆ ALEN 205000 25 10
LORENZON PAOLO 204000 29 7
MATKOVIĆ LEONARDO 164000 31 3
MAGRI RUGGERO 158000 30 2
CUGNOD VALTER ALFONSO 157000 24 6
FATTORINI EDOARDO 133000 25 4
VASSALLO GIANMARCO 24000 23 6

Team Ranking

POS N° TEAM NAME SCORE

76 Adriatico 85
58 BETTING TEAM 65
67 bei player 55
42 Jokerstars 55
48 Querce 55
87 Team Busto 55
89 PP Team 50
95 #TUTTOACASO 45
54 Goldenboys 45
65 durr 40
96 Euro Thunders 40
91 Golden Gate 777 40
81 JUST HOLDEM 40
73 Regina di Cuori 40
72 SARDINIA POKER TEAM 40
51 THE ENEMY 40
46 Need For Spew 35
84 Royal flash 35
75 4betswiss 30
55 Daždevnjaci 30
50 I regghini convinti 30
80 Insieme per caso 30
94 OLYMPIC MIRANO 30
60 (S)DREAM TEAM 25
79 I nuovi quasiamici 25
62 Perla Lovers 25
41 PokerCode 1 25
70 Sportbull Donkclub 25
71 Team Bracama (Roma) 25
45 Tutto a caso 25
52 WE HAVE A DREAM 25
56 Back to back 20
82 LUDO-TEAM 20
68 Nai sen 20
92 SARDEGNA SPACE UNDERGROUND 20
66 Shuffle up and River 20
85 Sportbull Skill 20
90 CHI CALLA PERDE!!! 15
77 DIAMANTE 15
98 Golden Gate 333 15
64 ORSETTI GOMMOSI 15
69 Sportbull Demolition 15
47 Sportbull Immortal 15
97 TheClub NoDeal 15
78 Gallipazzi 10
74 SPACE UNDERGROUND SENORBÌ 10
53 Sportbull I Fantastici 5 10
44 Good Fellas 5
83 MATRIX POKER TEAM 5
49 Tržaška Poker Liga 5
57 Hold’em Firenze & ETOP 0
88 Montecarlo poker house 0
63 N-u.p.i. 0
93 Olympic Mirano B
3 PokerCode 3 0
99 Sportbull Royal 0
86 Suicide Squad 2.0 0
61 Team Triglav 0

*We invite team captains to check the scores and, in case of mistakes, to report it within 24 hours from the update or no later than the awards ceremony. From then on, not corrections will be allowed.

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