Ramzi Jelassi likes Italy because of many reasons, but the biggest one might be the quality of the poker players, they haven’t fully evolved like many of the other poker playing countries. Ramzi paid €2000+€200 to play in the new Italian Poker Tour, this time making a stop in San Remo.

368 players bought in, and 238 of them made it through to the second day. Ramzi had 44.000, from the 20.000 that he started the day with. Early on day 2 Ramzi made a huge double up, he made a 4-bet preflop on the button with K9 and the flop came out KJ9, his opponent went all-in with 60.000, Ramzi called and his opponent showed A9. Up to 160.000, and here he was in the top of chips.

After this he managed to win an all-in pre-flop with TT vs AJ, which took him up to 400.000 with 45 players left in the tournament. He finished the day with 327.000, together with 34 other players.

Now we are at day 3, the day when they play down to the final table. Ramzi early got up to 500.000, but then dropping half of his stack with QQ vs AJ all-in pre-flop. This didn’t stop Ramzi and he fought his way back to 500.000, now with only 14 players left.

Ramzi likes to make a few moves, and he made one where he 3-bets his opponent all-in and his opponent calls, which Ramzi didn’t like as he was holding 9Ts, and he was up against AQ. The flop showed a 9 and it held up, this took him up to 1.000.000 in chips with only 10 players left!

The 9th player fell, and they now gathered all the tournament chips to one table, just to see who would be the 9th one to leave the tournament and not get in to the official final table tomorrow.

Ramzi was involved in the last hand of the day when he was holding 45 on a board looking like this 4K7 - 4 - A, giving Ramzi trip 5s, his opponent “De Nardi” had AQ, and his top pair was just not good enough.

This means that Ramzi Jelassi is going to the final table as the chipleader with 1.258.000 in chips!!

Have a look at the payouts:
1 € 170,000
2 € 100,000
3 € 68,000
4 € 50,000
5 € 39,000
6 € 28,000
7 € 18,000
8 € 13,000

And the players:
Seat 1 Francesco Veronese 986.000
Seat 2 Andrea Sapere 838.000
Seat 3 Massimo Di Cicco 1.015.000
Seat 4 Niccolò Domeniconi 968.000
Seat 5 Claudio Rinaldi 651.000
Seat 6 Giuseppe Pipino 631.000
Seat 7 Roberto Pompei 1.016.000
Seat 8 Ramzi Jelassi 1.258.000

The final table reporting will return tomorrow at 15.00 CET… GO RAMZI!

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