The 1 million euro Gtd Italian Poker Open returns to San Marino from 3 to 10 January 2023
IPO returns to the Giochi del Titano in San Marino from 3 to 10 January 2023 with 1 million euros Gtd with the organization PkLive360.
Written by Cesare Antonini
It had been talked about for some time and, after the records of Sanremo, after seven months thanks to the difficulty of many casinos to restart and host such an important event, it is back there.‘Italian Poker Open. And IPO returns to San Marinowith the organization PkLive360 by Andrea Rocci, obviously, and with the collaboration of Euro Rounders in the house that acts as a guest and that can only be there Titan Games, from 3 to 10 January 2023.
This is the first news. But let’s move on to the “meat”: the main event will have a € 1 million guaranteed prize pool and, one year later when the San Marino government, due to Covid-19, canceled the event, IPO will try again but this time there should be no problems.
The news, released on the tournament’s social networks, has already sparked great enthusiasm for a reference tournament in a location that has just returned from the last record of the IPS, the other very strong Italian live poker brand. San Marino is increasingly a point of reference with the Titan Games committed at 360 degrees to try to satisfy the players. In this sense, the event could dust off the rooms that had been prepared for the January 2022 event but the rooms of the former Ferrari museum have already withstood the impact of very numerous flight. It will certainly be in the interest of the organizers to ensure that everything is adjusted to the prize pool capable of attracting thousands of players.
WHAT TOURNAMENT WILL IT BE?
As we always like to say, the IPO “recipe” never changes and the buy in will stay from 550 euros (490 + 60) with seven flight departures including one Speed with 25 minute levels scheduled for Saturday 8 January, before Day 2 at 6:30 pm. I Day1 “normal” owes the 45 minute levels with late registration scheduled at 11th level and 1 possible re-registration per flight for players.
The structure foresees the passage to 60 minutes of blind level for Day2 while, from Day3, there will be 75 minutes to play for one of the most playable late stages of live poker in Europe.
The stack is 40,000 chips, even that unchanged.
THERE ARE ALSO THE SIDE EVENTS, CASH GAME AND SAT
Everything appears very concentrated on the main event and with 1 million euros up for grabs it is absolutely understandable. There will also be cash games, of course, but also qualifying satellites for the first three days and also with 20 tickets guaranteeddivided between Tuesday 3 January (10), Wednesday 4 January (5) and Thursday 5 January (5).
There is room forIPO Omaha Pot Limit from 220 euro on January 5 while then waiting for theMaster of the IPO. Day1 of the € 990 tournament with 50,000 chips in stack and levels of 45 minutes on Day1 and 60 minutes on Day2. It ends on January 10 at the same time as the main event.
Also scheduled is a Sunday Side, a Monday Side and a Closer Deep.