The first edition of the €100,000 guaranteed Swiss Championship of Poker in Mendrisio ended with the triumph of Eduard Fondos who took home the prestigious prize and €28,000. The Swiss Championship of Poker went all the way to the final head’s up and gave the victory of the Italian player of Moldavian origin over runner up Giorgio Leuchi who “consoled” himself with €17,000. Forty-eight people showed up for the Final Day of this SCOP and after three seat openings, the fateful ‘bubble’ burst. The uncomfortable role of bubble man fell to Vittorio Ortelli after 90 minutes of ‘bubble’. Among the first ‘prize’ eliminations were Raffaele Castro, Tony Benza and Leonardo Bartolone, winner of the SCOPLO tournament last week. Speaking of Omaha, Rino “Raise” Sallustro, winner of La Notte dell’Omaha in Mendrisio, failed to enter the Top20. Who comes close to the famous “back to back” is Fernando Rodriguez, already the historic winner of a past SCOP edition in 2018. After the dinner break, the Final Table is composed with a large presence of foreign players. Among the “favourites”, Francesco Mussi and Andrea Pruiti, Day1B’s chipleader, came out almost immediately. The third placed player is the Swiss Matthiew Frazier who takes home €12,000 before the final heads up won by Fondos, the best of the 517 players registered for this SCOP.
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Here is the final SCOP Mendrisio ranking:
- Eduard Fondos 28.000 euro
- Giorgio Leuchi 17.000 euro
- Thomas Luethi 12.000 euro
- Carlo Vitti 9.000 euro
- Matthew Frazier 6.750 euro
- Eros Bianchi 5.300 euro
- Andrea Pruiti 4.000 euro
- Francesco Mussi 2.975 euro
- Bruno Molteni 2.300 euro
- Antonio Foti 1.700 euro
- Piero Ferrari 1.700 euro
- Massimo Panero 1.700 euro
- Emmanuel Coppola 1.700 euro
- Sebastiano Privizzini – ITA – 1.200 euro
- Patrick Rossini – CH – 1.200 euro
- Sergio Mangili – ITA – 1.200 euro
- Jacopo Angrisano – ITA – 1.200 euro
- Francesco Intini – ITA – 1.200 euro
- Lucas Reimann – CH – 800 euro
- Hu Long – China – 800 euro
- Dario Bonissi – ITA – 800 euro
- Rino Sallustro – ITA – 800 euro
- Davide Grapsi – ITA – 800 euro
- Lauro Capitini – ITA – 800 euro
- Fernando Rodriguez – CH – 800 euro
- Giordano Santambrogio – ITA – 800 euro
- Markus Tobler – CH – 800 euro
- Mattia Brusoni – ITA – 500 euro
- Muneatsu Matsumoto – China – 500 euro
- Manuel Maggio – ITA – 500 euro
- Domenico Canzio – ITA – 500 euro
- Andrea Ettori – ITA – 500 euro
- Antonio Crocetta – ITA – 500 euro
- Leonardo Bartolone – ITA – 500 euro
- Marco Spiezia – ITA – 500 euro
- Victor Mendes – CH – 500 euro
- Charles Calfelis – CH – 500 euro
- Slaven Popov – BUL – 500 euro
- Antonio Bressi – ITA – 500 euro
- Simone Argirò – ITA – 500 euro
- Arad Shaqiri – ITA – 500 euro
- Andrea Lo Cascio – ITA – 500 euro
- Marco Porro – ITA – 500 euro
- Raffaele Castro – ITA – 500 euro
- Mario Alfano – ITA – 500 euro
