Sanremo – It’s the day of Mario Adinolfi, there is no doubt. Also because he is the one who commands everyone on the other hand 99BB, 985,000 coins, with whom he puts himself in command of 26 qualifiers from Day1B Wpt Prime Main Event of today but also of the 11 of Flight A. After all, the feeling with the World Poker Tourhe has always had it: “I have always played them and I have always loved the brand that I see is now finding new vigor with this format, Wpt Prime – he confessed to Gioconews.it – I almost don’t play anymore, I really have too much to do even if poker remains a great passion for me. I saw this tournament in Sanremo, 1,100 euro buy in (a few bullets spent it before qualifying, Ed.) and I flew here straight away even if I go back to Rome tomorrow to vote and then go back for Day2 on Sunday. I wouldn’t play other smaller tournaments if I had time and I found this one perfect. I also have a particular feeling with the WPT. I made two very important final tables with incredible fields in Vienna and Sanremo and I played many of them when buy ins were even more important.”
Exact. Big Mario talks about Wpt Vienna 2011 when he came out fourth for 115 thousand euros and there was a certain thing at the final table Alexius Isaiah. 555 entries for approximately 1.8 million dollars in prize pool. But let’s go back to 2009 when Adinolfi finished sixth in Venice at 4,400 euros with 397 entries for 1.5 million up for grabs. “There were players like Mike McDonald, Michele Slama Saad and Darietto Minieri”. Oh yes, all true. And there was also a certain Martin Jacobson who later became world champion in 2014 for 10 million dollars. There he finished second behind Ragnar Astrom, a Swedish compatriot who won 397 thousand euros and Jacobson won 238 thousand euros. Adinolfi 66 thousand euros between Slam Saad and Minieri, in fact.
The line of play was to attack without defenders, practically. Except when it started climbing to 400,000-500,000 chips it became unstoppable. He opened all his hands, flatted, attacked and even when he made a mistake with the blind he got into a shot that could have turned into a bluff on 4 spades against Carlo Catelani who had flopped an illegible straight. But the shots were many and often legitimate when the opponents hoped to take away the chips but Mario had taken a piece of the board. Like that flush draw nuts that didn’t close for a French player who had A8 with the Ace of hearts and shoved on the monotonous flop of hearts: “I, however, had taken the Jack and he was blank!”, he analyzed Adinolfi. In short, the dynamics and inertia of the tournament went his way. And he has been playing for years and has been able to make the most of the situation.
Having said this to chase him Marcin Puczylowski Marcin with 743,000 chips and Ferrando Fabrice with 705,000.
In fourth place Shlomi MaltaIsraeli, which caused the AA vs KK bubble to burst for the unfortunate bubble man who contributed his 648,000 tokens.
Italy brings Gianfranco Iaculli in seventh place for 50BB and Claudio Di Giacomo at 391,000. The two managed the presence of Adinolfi well, with whom, frankly, it was difficult to play. Iaculli doubled right on him and then, having moved from the table, went up again. Di Giacomo played with great knowledge and experience, constantly growing almost without being noticed. Apart from one shot in which he decides to 5bet find with KQ against AA and 1010 and finds two Ks on the flop: “Every now and then I combine it too!”, He commented smiling.
Gregory Grech he entered late optimizing to the maximum and closing at 375,000, he is a historic reg of Sanremo. Also inside Laurent Polito with 236,000 and we also mention Carlo Catelani and Natale Polizzotto, the latter who dodged the worst blows and professionally managed to qualify.
Tomorrow from 12 Day1C and then the evening Turbo. Follow the updates because the field will be crazy.
Here is the count:
Ranking Name Surname Stack
1 Adinolfi Mario 985 000 (99 Bb)
2 Puczylowski Marcin 743 000 (74 Bb)
3 Ferrando Fabrice 705 000 (71 Bb)
4 Shlomi Malka 648 000 (65 Bb)
5 Michot Laurent 561 000 (56 Bb)
6 Nguyen Kym 521 000 (52 Bb)
7 Iaculli Gianfranco 502 000 (50 Bb)
8 Berlin Devid 489 000 (49 Bb)
9 Dhoumier Mehdi 480 000 (48 Bb)
10 Abbas Eric 453 000 (45 Bb)
11 By Giacomo Claudio 391 000 (39 Bb)
12 Grech Gregory 375 000 (38 Bb)
13 Traian Costin Stanciu 334 000 (33 Bb)
14 Le Pure Radu 323 000 (32 Bb)
15 Dos Santos Florian 314 000 (31 Bb)
16 Udzimir Luchkou 284 000 (28 Bb)
17 Sardal Tal 275 000 (28 Bb)
18 Weilin Isgt 271 000 (27 Bb)
19 Priamo Charter 260 000 (26 Bb)
20 Polito Laurent 236 000 (24 Bb)
21 Mizrahi Josef 230 000 (23 Bb)
22 Catelani Carlo 191 000 (19 Bb)
23 Polizzotto Natale 162 000 (16 Bb)
24 Hawkins Andrew 138 000 (14 Bb)
25 Yau Franck 122 000 (12 Bb)
26 Donzelli Giorgio 115 000 (12 Bb)
