Live Poker Italy: Champion reopens and San Marino IPO skips
Matteo Felli
The Live poker english continues its very slow ascent, between ups and downs.
The good news comes from Champion of Italy, where the casino will reopen nextJanuary 28 almost 4 years after closing due to bankruptcy. The home of live poker par excellence on Italian soil is therefore ready to take back its space.
The bad news, on the other hand, comes fromPoker Open of Italy. These days he should have played the da stage 1 million euro guaranteed in San Marino, but the new anticovid rules of the local government and the fear of the spread of the new one led the organization to eliminate the event.
Let’s see in detail.
Champion roars again
The wait is about to end. A Champion of Italy now there are the remaining days between the reopening of the Casino on the shores of Lake Lugano. The start of the life of the gambling house is scheduled for 28 January, although in reality, a first date seemed to be in the final days of 2021.
Monday 27 December everything was ready for the great restart, but a few hours before the start, the situation relating to Covid and infections has precipitated: the new variant has led everyone to focus on the postponed date, with the beginning of the new era on January 28th. Almost 4 years after closing for bankruptcy, the Municipal Casino of Campione d’Italia is ready to return to the scene.
Live poker has been the showpiece here for years, with an impressive array of attendance records. Starting from IPO that he was born in Campione, before changing his skin with his traveling tour. Other formats have also taken off from the ninth floor of the CasinĂ² di Campione and other events have marked indelible pages for live poker.
From the events of Snai, Sisal and Lottomatica, passing through theItalian Poker Tour and up to hosting a stage fromEuropean Poker Tour. In short, the navel of Italian poker. Sixty minutes by car from Milan, a stone’s throw from Lugano and twenty minutes from Como, the strategic location of the Campione casino between Italy And Swiss it has always been the real strength. In addition to a staff that for years has left its mark with top events.
IPO Skip
The Covid put a hand in the postponement of the IPO stage aSan Marino. 2022 was to open with a bang for thePoker Open of Italy, thanks to the million said guaranteed in the prize pool, but as the pandemic has pulled a bad joke on everyone. Given the infinite number of infections, the government of the Republic of the Titan has tightened reserves to contain the virus and it would be virtually impossible to accommodate the flood of players in casino sales.
Therefore, the organization, together with the San Marino Casino, has decided to cancel a historic stage in its own way. For the third time since 2013 it would be played with a million guaranteed in the prize pool, after the first two legendary stages played in Campione di Italia between 2013 and 2014. So it would have been the first time of an IPO with a guaranteed prize outside the national borders. For the moment it is not known if and when the evidence will be recovered.