ITALIAN FESTIVAL – MARCH 16-25, 2025 CASINÒ PORTOMASO, MALTA

ITALIAN POKER OPEN 500,000 GTD

🔹 CHECK OUT THE CHIPCOUNT FOR DAY 1F 🔹 DAY 1H SPEED LAST CHANCE BEGINS AT 11:00 AM 🔹 TONIGHT: “LA NOTTE DEGLI ASSI” HIGH ROLLER KICKS OFF! The most crowded flight of the tournament saw 363 players register, with 77 advancing to Day 2 of the Italian Poker Open 500,000 GTD. Leading the chip count is Ruggero Giardina, who bagged the largest stack with 637,000 chips, followed by Andrea Marchi with 548,000. A familiar face, Riccardo Trevisani, takes 4th place with 420,000 chips, with the amusing slogan: “This is no joke!” Among the top stacks, we also find Giuseppe Rosa and Teo Garo, the latter securing 284,000 chips. Luca Poldaretti, Luca Accornero, and Andrea Crobu (who bagged over 240,000 chips) also move on to Day 2. Other notable qualifiers include Ale Orsi, Gianni Sutera, and Roman Fondos. Some shorter stacks making it through include Nicola Pezzullo, Flaviano Cammisuli, and Dario “Bonzo” Nittolo, all barely above 100,000 chips.

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CHIPCOUNT – DAY 1F

1️⃣ Ruggero Carlo Giardina 🇮🇹 – 637,000 2️⃣ Andrea Marchi 🇮🇹 – 548,000 3️⃣ Davide Campione 🇮🇹 – 503,000 4️⃣ Riccardo Trevisani 🇮🇹 – 420,000 5️⃣ Alexandru Budai 🇷🇴 – 401,000 6️⃣ Giuseppe Rosa 🇮🇹 – 310,000 7️⃣ Salvatore Panzera 🇮🇹 – 302,000 8️⃣ Giovanni Previti 🇮🇹 – 291,000 9️⃣ Shane Dempsey 🇬🇧 – 290,000 🔟 Matteo Garofali-Martorelli 🇮🇹 – 284,000 🔹 11. Adrian Ziemichod 🇵🇱 – 282,000 🔹 12. Stefano Olivetti 🇮🇹 – 256,000 🔹 13. Luca Poldaretti 🇮🇹 – 255,000 🔹 14. Giuseppe Di Marco 🇮🇹 – 253,000 🔹 15. Luca Accornero 🇮🇹 – 246,000 🔹 16. Leonardo Zanotti 🇮🇹 – 243,000 🔹 17. Alfonso Simone 🇮🇹 – 232,000 🔹 18. Rosario Arasi 🇮🇹 – 231,000 🔹 19. Giuseppe Emanuele 🇮🇹 – 227,000 🔹 20. Umberto De Cunto 🇮🇹 – 222,000 🔹 21. Claudio Campochiaro 🇮🇹 – 221,000 🔹 22. Andrea Pasquale Crobu 🇮🇹 – 216,000 🔹 23. Domenico Di Vito 🇮🇹 – 215,000 🔹 24. Domenico Davide Lando 🇮🇹 – 215,000 🔹 25. Diego De Martino 🇮🇹 – 211,000 🔹 26. Vincenzo Serraino 🇮🇹 – 205,000 🔹 27. Antonio Aquila 🇮🇹 – 202,000 🔹 28. Andrea Atzeni 🇮🇹 – 200,000 🔹 29. Alessandro Ampola 🇮🇹 – 187,000 🔹 30. Danilo Colomba 🇮🇹 – 187,000 🔹 31. Stefano Frattini 🇮🇹 – 187,000 🔹 32. Giovanni Nava 🇮🇹 – 187,000 🔹 33. Dario Mancuso 🇮🇹 – 184,000 🔹 34. Alessandro Orsi Smittarello 🇮🇹 – 180,000 🔹 35. Roman Fondos 🇮🇹 – 176,000 🔹 36. Gianluca Pagliaro 🇮🇹 – 175,000 🔹 37. Vincenzo Vitello 🇮🇹 – 175,000 🔹 38. Giovanni Sutera 🇮🇹 – 174,000 🔹 39. Luca Russo 🇮🇹 – 173,000 🔹 40. Rocco Maiorana 🇮🇹 – 166,000 🔹 41. Alfredo Cuzzocrea 🇮🇹 – 164,000 🔹 42. Andrea Iannantuoni 🇮🇹 – 163,000 🔹 43. Alessandro Barone 🇮🇹 – 160,000 🔹 44. Edoardo Accornero 🇮🇹 – 159,000 🔹 45. Lapo Becherucci 🇮🇹 – 156,000 🔹 46. Giancarlo Massa 🇮🇹 – 156,000 🔹 47. Biagio Torrisi 🇮🇹 – 150,000 🔹 48. Jordan Bertrand Manuel Dumas 🇫🇷 – 144,000 🔹 49. Francesco Brondi 🇮🇹 – 142,000 🔹 50. Mikel Calò 🇮🇹 – 141,000 🔹 51. Giovanni Napoletano 🇮🇹 – 141,000 🔹 52. Pasquale Alessandro Giacoppo 🇮🇹 – 138,000 🔹 53. Francesco Dello Ioio 🇮🇹 – 133,000 🔹 54. Michele Antonio Zafonti 🇮🇹 – 132,000 🔹 55. Lars Marcus Larsson 🇸🇪 – 131,000 🔹 56. Ervin Gjini 🇦🇱 – 130,000 🔹 57. Alfredo Cuti 🇮🇹 – 123,000 🔹 58. Gianni Mocchi 🇮🇹 – 112,000 🔹 59. Flaviano Cammisuli 🇮🇹 – 110,000 🔹 60. Nicola Pezzullo 🇮🇹 – 109,000 🔹 61. Mauro Frederick Zennaro 🇮🇹 – 109,000 🔹 62. Dario Nittolo 🇮🇹 – 108,000 🔹 63. Stefano Crepaldi 🇮🇹 – 105,000 🔹 64. Santo Sidoti 🇮🇹 – 105,000 🔹 65. Stefano Armeli Iapichino 🇮🇹 – 103,000 🔹 66. Piersante Ferri 🇮🇹 – 103,000 🔹 67. Nicodemo Piccolo 🇮🇹 – 102,000 🔹 68. Federico Dato 🇮🇹 – 101,000 🔹 69. Marco Siciliano 🇮🇹 – 100,000 🔹 70. Angelo Censabella 🇮🇹 – 92,000 🔹 71. Mihai Szilveszter 🇮🇹 – 89,000 🔹 72. Gianni Palmisano 🇮🇹 – 80,000 🔹 73. Corrado Martinelli 🇮🇹 – 72,000 🔹 74. Cosimo De Gennaro 🇮🇹 – 58,000 🔹 75. Salvatore Boi 🇮🇹 – 54,000 🔹 76. Nikolaos Tsitos 🇬🇷 – 46,000 🔹 77. Leonardo Gigante 🇮🇹 – 37,000 Stay tuned for more updates as Day 2 approaches! 🔥♠️