Avec, au total des deux Day 1, « seulement » 987 joueurs inscrits, l’EPT San Remo est un semi-succès pour ses organisateurs, qui avaient l’habitude de battre tous les records de participation. Au final, le vainqueur remportera 983 000€ — bien loin des 1.3 millions d’euros remportés par Liv Boeree l’an dernier—, et 490 joueurs seront de retours pour ce Day 2 qui devrait, pour une fois, débuter à l’heure.
Au rang des meilleurs joueurs, un chipleader batave, le Team PokerStars Pro Ruben Visser, suivi par le Libanais Nicolas Chouity, déjà repéré sur les étapes EPT, puis une flopée d’Italiens inconnus au bataillon. Dans cette masse, un Français arrive à se faufiler en cinquième place du Day 1B, Jean-Laurent Comparetto, ainsi qu’un… Mongol, Yuriv Nesterenko !
Alain Roy, ancien vainqueur du PPT, le « Moneymaker français » comme l’avait titré la presse à l’époque, finit la journée avec un beau tapis de 165 000 jetons, talonné par Vanessa Selbst, toujours aussi en forme, mais aussi Victor Ramdin, Carter Philips, Joe Cada et Roberto Romanello. Côté pros français, peu d’éliminations, mais des tapis plutôt moyens, comme Antony Lellouche, à 70 000 jetons. On espère que le Pro Winamax ira loin dans ce tournoi, lui qui est en recherche d’une belle perf depuis quelques temps.
Chipcount Day 1B
Ruben Visser Netherlands Team PokerStars Pro 251,500
Nicolas Chouity Lebanon PokerStars qualifier 233,400
Stefano Alberto Servalli Italy 202,400
Jean Laurent Comparetto France 192,000
Victor Ramdin USA Team PokerStars Pro 190,500
Diego Bolzoni Italy 188,700
Juri Pietroboni Italy 184,600
Yuriy Nesterenko Mongolia 179,000
Thomas Traboulsi Germany 170,300
David Vamplew UK 166,700
Alain Roy France 165,300
Gerasimos Deres Sweden 164,800
Vanessa Selbst USA Team PokerStars Pro 161,500
Alessandro Chiarato Italy 161,000
Antonio De Salvo Italy PokerStars qualifier 150,300
Carter Phillips USA 145,800
Domenico Iannone Italy 145,100
Jason James Canada 143,400
Quoc Trung Nguyen Italy PokerStars qualifier 140,200
Oscar Blanco Carrasco SPAIN 140,000
Tamas Lendvai Slovakia IPT TLB Award winner 138,400
Andrea Benelli Italy 136,100
Joe Cada USA Team PokerStars Pro 135,500
Gerardo Godinez Estrada Mexico 134,100
Simone Michele Italy 131,000
Antonino Venneri Italy 124,600
Francesco Delfoco Italy 123,600
Igor Yaroshevs Kyy Ukraine 122,000
Roberto Romanello UK 119,000
Maurizio Baisi Italy 117,800
Dario Rusconi Italy 117,000
Massimo Mosele Italy 116,300
Raffaele Arena Italy 115,900
Piero Piave Italy PokerStars qualifier 115,700
Costantino Russo Italy 114,400
Maurizio Agrello Italy 109,000
Georgios Manousos Greece 108,400
Max Lykov Russia Team PokerStars Pro 108,000
Nicola De Vita Italy 105,800
Marco Bognanni Italy 105,200
Ferdinando Lo Cascio Italy 104,100
John Eames UK 103,800
Freddy Darakjian France 103,100
Nicolas Yunis USA PokerStars player 100,900
Nicola Boldini Italy 99,700
Diego Testa Italy 98,300
Giacomo Maisto Italy 97,100
Leonid Yezik Ukraine 97,000
Filippo Bisciglia Italy 96,200
Domenico Spinelli Italy 95,500
Abhishek Khaitan UK PokerStars qualifier 94,700
Marco Fantini Italy 94,500
Thomas Meyer Swensen Norway 93,900
Luigi Diana Italy 92,400
Massimiliano Manigrasso Italy 90,900
Cristiano Linari Italy PokerStars qualifier 90,200
Ted Forrest USA 90,100
Francesco Pivetta Italy 89,000
Maxim Boguslavskiy Russia 87,900
Amir Fuks Israel 87,000
Giuseppe De Leonardi Italy 86,400
Shander De Vries Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 85,500
Jan Sorensen Denmark 85,200
Terrence Chan Canada PokerStars player 85,200
Salvatore Erittu Italy PokerStars qualifier 84,900
Kamal Choraria UK 83,000
Manuel Coppola Italy 83,000
Ciprian Hrisca Romania 82,500
Tibor Sule USA 82,400
Stephan Fajg France 81,900
Valerio Mattera Italy PokerStars player 81,600
Riccardo Marchini Italy 81,500
Barry Greenstein USA Team PokerStars Pro 81,300
Nicolas Leger Canada PokerStars qualifier 80,900
Alexander Novitskiy Russia 80,000
Acar Mazlum Turkey 79,900
Salvatore Castorina Italy 79,200
Giovanni Maresca Italy 77,800
Briam Roberts USA 75,900
Lars Damgaard Hansen Denmark PokerStars player 75,200
Giuliano Bendinelli Italy 75,100
Simone Ruggeri Italy 74,100
Cristian Petrullo Italy 73,800
Erik Van Den Berg Netherlands PokerStars player 73,160
Sebastian Ruthenberg Germany Team PokerStars Pro 72,000
Marat Begenov Kazakhstan 71,700
Jesse Cohen USA 70,500
Antony Lellouche France 70,400
Jens Hansen Denmark 70,400
Leonardo Patacconi Italy 70,300
Marcellino Terracciano Italy 70,100
Dario Alioto Italy 69,800
Massimo Di Cicco Italy 69,500
Felix Schulze Germany 69,300
Andrea Ferrari Italy 69,200
Govert Metaal Netherlands PokerStars player 68,400
Aleksandr Khizhnyak Russia 67,800
Carmine Chirico Italy 67,400
Massimiliano De Napoli Italy PokerStars qualifier 67,400
Luca Falaschi Italy 66,800
Dario Sammartino Italy 66,200
Bruno « Kool Shen » Lopes 65,300
Bruno Stefanelli Italy 65,300
Urs Kohler Switzerland 64,500
Mustapha Kanit Italy IPT Player of the Year 64,400
Xuan Liu Canada 64,400
Dario Nittolo Italy 63,900
Dylan Wilkerson USA 63,600
Massimiliano Forti Italy 63,300
Jean-Philippe Rohr France 62,500
Johannes Strassmann Germany Team PokerStars Pro 62,000
Paul Johannes Knebel Germany 61,700
Sergey Altbregin Russia 60,700
Pasquale Pellicano Italy 60,500
Richard Toth Hungary Team PokerStars Pro 60,400
Gabriele Lepore Italy 60,300
Gabriele Lepore Italy 60,300
Gianluca Speranza Italy 60,000
Salvatore Bianco Italy 59,900
Ronny Kaiser Switzerland 59,200
Andrea Piva Italy 58,800
Carl Dayon Canada 58,200
Germano Martucci Italy 58,100
Gianluca Tenore Italy 58,100
Riccardo Festa Italy 57,600
Yannick Frenette Canada PokerStars qualifier 57,600
Nicolino Di Carlo Italy 57,500
Roland Bachmann Switzerland 57,400
Edoardo Cocuzzi Italy 57,100
Max Greenwood Canada 56,400
Karen Sarkisyan Russia 56,000
Paolo Della Penna Italy 55,900
Oscar Teran Venezuela 54,700
Roberto Spada Italy 54,700
Aram Sargsyan Armenia PokerStars qualifier 52,900
Maurizio Sepede Italy 52,400
Tomas Sayech Sweden 51,800
Robinson Cole Italy 50,900
Luigi Pignataro Italy PokerStars player 50,600
Rasmus Larsen Denmark 50,500
Robert Irving Parkin UK PokerStars qualifier 48,600
Angelo Falcone Italy 48,400
Claudio Cecchi Italy 48,400
Luigi Torquato Italy PokerStars player 48,000
Luciano Longhitano Italy 47,200
Riccardo Lombardi Italy 46,900
Gianni Bonetto Italy 46,700
Viktor Wessman Sweden 46,300
Tsubasa Manabe Japan 46,200
Jordan Mitev Bulgaria 46,100
Sandiep Ajab Sing Khosa UK 45,900
Mirko Rossi Italy PokerStars qualifier 45,800
Marco Cinelli Italy 45,600
Keith Johnson UK 45,000
Pierre Sakr France 44,700
Sebastian Skuja Sweden PokerStars qualifier 44,600
Carla Solinas Italy IPT Female Player of the Year 44,100
Armando Masini Italy 43,700
Stefano Novelli Italy PokerStars qualifier 43,600
Toni Pettersson Finland 42,200
Williamson Johan Christofer Sweden 42,200
Alfonso Amendola Italy 42,000
Per Hildebrand Sweden 42,000
Michele Catelmo Italy 41,900
Travis Pearson USA 41,900
Francesco Tonti Italy 41,500
Luca Topazio Italy PokerStars player 41,400
Samer Abdul Rahman Sweden 41,400
Lars Meesterburrie Netherlands PokerStars player 41,000
Daniel Sjogren Sweden 39,600
Andrea Ratti Italy 39,400
James Sudworth UK 39,200
Renato Paolini Italy 39,100
Elton Tsang China 38,900
Joel Benzinou Belgium 38,000
Andy Black UK 37,800
Ofir Abromovici Israel 37,400
Enrico Lazzari Italy 36,300
Massimiliano Trifoglio Italy PokerStars qualifier 36,100
Angel Guillen Mexico Team PokerStars Pro 35,700
Lorand Horvath Hungary PokerStars qualifier 35,200
Mikhail Petrov Russia 35,000
Janar Kiivramees Estonia 34,400
Guenegou Thibaud Switzerland PokerStars player 34,300
Giacomo Massimiliano Scola Italy 34,200
Alessandro Funaro Italy 33,500
Daniele Vesco Italy 33,100
Marcin Horecki Poland Team PokerStars Pro 33,000
Riccardo Cugge Italy 33,000
Richard Loth Denmark 31,900
Aleksandr Val Russia 31,500
Daniele Guidetti Italy 31,300
Luca Ascani Italy 31,100
Davidi Kitai Belgium 30,900
Matteo Cimmino Italy 30,900
Ahmad Shams UK 30,500
Patrick Renkers Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 30,300
Artem Khudaverdiev Germany PokerStars qualifier 29,700
Alessandro De Michele Italy PokerStars player 29,000
Nicolas Rinquin France 28,600
Nicolas Chappuis France 28,400
Salvatore Bonavena Italy Team PokerStars Pro 28,400
Nicola Grieco Italy PokerStars qualifier 28,300
Sylvain Berthelot France 28,100
Angelo Antonio Di Giulio Italy 27,400
Teemu Typpi Finland PokerStars player 27,400
Archil Khoperia Georgia 27,200
Cristian Proietti Rocchi Italy 26,800
Daniele Chillemi Italy 26,700
Marcello Pepini Italy 26,500
Alex Gomes Brazil Team PokerStars Pro 26,400
Luana Spadaro Italy 26,400
Andrea Fabrizi Italy 26,200
Michal Polchlopek Malta PokerStars player 26,200
Mario Ripepi Italy 25,600
Carmelo Raudino Italy 24,300
Fabrizio Petrucciani Italy PokerStars qualifier 23,900
Devis Cavina Italy 23,800
Henri Kasper Estonia 23,600
Raffaele Bertolucci Italy 23,500
Carmine Narducci Italy 23,200
Andreas Berggren Sweden 23,100
Imre Leibold Estonia 22,800
Philip Meulyzer Italy 22,700
Cesare Florio Italy 22,100
Amerigo Tiberio Santoro Italy 21,400
Marco Fabbrini Italy 21,300
Yury Gulyy Germany 20,900
Emil Patel USA PokerStars player 20,800
Erich Friedl Austria 20,800
Arnaud Lombard France 20,700
Simona Larioli Italy 20,000
Arturo Pierantoni Italy 19,700
Nariman Yaghmai Italy 19,700
Ivan Demidov Russia Team PokerStars Pro 19,500
Nicola Caruso Italy PokerStars qualifier 18,200
Mads Wissing Denmark 18,100
Gregory Genovese Italy PokerStars player 17,900
Luca Amoruso Italy 16,900
Antonio Buonanno Italy 16,600
Aniello Delli Santi Italy 16,200
Mauro Fischietti Italy 14,400
Joao Guilherme Monte Studart Brazil 14,200
Johan « Johnny Dollar » Brandser Sweden PokerStars qualifier 13,700
Giacomo Rosa Italy 12,200
Oleg Tuntsev Russia 11,100
Vito Luigi Piconese Italy PokerStars qualifier 10,300
Franck Kalfon France 10,200
Anton Kozlovskiy Russia 7,600