After a pretty short heads-up-battle, where Domenico Tinnirello first doubled up with A, 6 against Masini’s K, 3 to take overtake the lead 2 million to 1 million, Tinnirello re-raised all-in holding Q, 6 and was called by Alessio Masini who had A, J. The board came T, 6, 4, 3, K and Tinnirello’s pair of sixes was enough to take the titel and the first prize of €121,00. The both Italians were happy after the match and Masini was pleased with his check worth €72,000.
That’s it from us who has provided the live report blog from Unibet Open in Lugano. Arrivederci e Buona Notte!

Winner Tinnirello (right) and runner-up Masini (left)

The last battle in the Unibet Open is now being played where Alessio Masini has 2,150,000 against Domenico Tinnirello’s 1,050,000. The winner will get €121,000 and the runner-up will receive €72,000.

Javier Dominguez has set great colour to this tournament with his spectacular aggressivness. He was always the favourite to be the winner as soon as we got to the final table, but it wouldn’t end that way.The brave Spaniard went out on the “heads-up-bubble” after losing with K, 9 to Alessio Masini’s A, K with a Q, 2, 2, Q, 3 board. Javier has to settle for a prize check of €40,500.

Domenico Tinnirello was the short stack on the table when he ended up all-in holding K, 2 against the J, 8 of clubs for Alessio Masini. The board came 4, 6, 9, K, 3 and Tinirello doubled up to 600,000

With two Italian players and one Spaniard left in the Unibet Open in Lugano, this is the latest chip count:

Alessio Masini 1.400.000
Javier Dominguez 1.274.000
Domenico Tinnirello 627.000

Domenico Tinirello went all-in pre-flop with JJ and was called by Swede Ojan Faramarzi holding A, Q. The board came 4, 8, 4, 9, K and Tinirello eliminates Faramarzi who is awarded €32,500 for his fourth place finish.

Short-stacked Arnaldo Petino went all-in for 110,000 on the button and Dominguez went all-in from the small blind, Faramarzi folded. Dominguez was in the lead with A, 3 of hearts in front of Petino’s K, Q. The flop comes A, Q, 5, turn is 9 and river is J. Petino is eliminated in fifth place earning €28,000.

After a lot of action pre-flop the two big stacks Masini and Dominguez saw the flop A, 5, 8 with two spades. Masini bet, Dominguez goes all-in with king-queen of clubs for flush draw and Masini calls with A, 9 for topp pair. The pot is then 1,1 million. The turn is in Masinis favour, 3 of diamonds, but the river gives Dominguez the pot as it is 7 of spades. Masini dropped down to 1,1 million and is level with Dominguez with the same amount.

Alessio Masini has climbed up steadily and has now taken the lead from Javier Dominguez. Masini raised pre-flop to 75,000, Dominguez re-raised to 200,000 and Masini called. The flop was A, 9, 3 and both players checked. Turn was 7, Masini now bet out 200,000 and got called. River was an ace and Masini went all-in with 455,000, Dominguez called, Masini showed 9,8 for two-pair and Dominguez mucked. Masini is new chip leader with 1,7 million and Dominguez is down to 800,000.

There is a lot of action at the moment on the final table. This time Dominguez was surprisingly not involved in the action. Arnaldo Petino is easily the oldest player among the remaining five. He made a raise pre-flop, Swede Ojan re-raised and Faramarzi went all-in with a total of 160,000 holding pocket sixes. Faramarzi called holding king-queen of clubs and needed help. The board came J, 2, 9, 5, 2 and Petoni doubled up to 320,000. Faramarzi dropped down to 240,000.