Gianluca Michelini is the best of the 51 players remaining after the first flight of La Notte degli Assi 200,000 garantito. The 140 Day1A entries were a veritable torrent that poured into the tournament area of the Admiral Poker Room at the Casino di Mendrisio. Among them were some well-known faces such as Claudio “Swissy” Rinaldi, Luca Cristantielli, Cesare Raso, Matteo Sbrana, Alessandro “ilpizzopazzo” Piersigilli and Antonio Bernaudo, who came close to chipleading with over 300,000 chips. Great performances also by Pasquale Vinci and Giorgio Leuchi, runner up in the last SCOP. Even three women in the top positions of the count, the best Dalila Meroni. In the end, 51 qualified after 13 levels of play and we are around 40% of the initial field, testifying to the great depth of the structure. The €200,000 guaranteed tournament started at 6pm and had 10 levels of late registration. Those eliminated can “try again” starting today, Friday 20 January, with Day1B. The 51 qualifiers, on the other hand, will meet again on Sunday 22 January for Day2A and all those who go through to the Final Day will already be automatically “in the money”. It should be borne in mind that this first flight of La Notte degli Assi 200,000 guaranteed included the players who had won the ticket in the satellites organised inside the Admiral Poker Room and those who had won the pass in the previous edition of La Notte degli Assi at the Imperium in Milan. Starting from Day1B, however, the tickets will no longer be valid.
Here is the chipcount of the 51 players remaining after Day1A:
1 Gianluca Michelini 340.500
2 Antonio Bernaudo 315.000
3 Giorgio Leuchi 308.000
4 Pasquale Vinci 255.500
5 Dalila Meroni 250.000
6 Alessandro Galparoli 245.500
7 Enzo Napoli 242.000
8 Ana Maria David 219.500
9 Julien Proserpio 219.000
10 Antonio Archetti 218.500
11 Aldo Monteleone 217.000
12 Francesca Cotroneo 193.000
13 Cosimo Solazzo 183.000
14 Simone Argirò 172.000
15 Gaetano Porro 162.000
16 Marco Rodrigues 155.000
17 Marco Di Feo 153.500
18 Claudio Castelli 149.000
19 Franco Galli 144.500
20 Luca Rossi 142.000
21 Loretta Tuma 136.000
22 Stefano Maresca 129.500
23 Giacomo Soda 121.000
24 Ezio Ostoni 115.000
25 Sebastiano Privizzini 114.500
26 Gianluca Nardone 111.500
27 Federico Caroe 110.000
28 Robert Salkurti 108.500
29 Maurizio Musso 108.000
30 Claudio Rinaldi 107.000
31 Soheil Roshankish 103.000
32 Florjan Gjokhilaj 98.000
33 Alessandro Piersigilli 98.000
34 Sandro Carucci 93.000
35 Gaetano Napoli 91.500
36 Gianluca Nobili 87.500
37 Benjamin Corbin White 86.500
38 Maurizio Donatiello 81.500
39 Francesco Fiore 81.500
40 Matteo Baroni 79.000
41 Xu Aiguo 75.000
42 Domenico Candido 73.500
43 Raffaele Zambo 73.500
44 Alessandro Comi 69.000
45 Cesare Raso 65.000
46 Marco Panada 59.500
47 Giuseppe Trapani 56.000
48 Fernando Colazzo 50.000
49 Gabriele Napoli 45.500
50 Salvatore Floridia 44.000
51 Andrea Bottinelli 40.000