The most incredible hand played at the ISOP Main Event

Every festival, more or less, is remembered for a sensational hand. It can be a blowout or a lucky card on the river that changes a player’s fortunes. At the ISOP Main Event the hand between Venneri and Delrio saw both players wondering how to get their opponent to put it all on the line. And on every road

IT’S NOT LIKE THE OPEN BUT…

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Sifting through the various tournaments that were played in 2026, there was no significant news. The most incredible coup is still that of the PokerStars Open that we told you about: both for the cards, for the board and above all for the moment. We were in fact on the bubble with both players who, in terms of chips, were well placed. Then we know well that the adventure of Andrea Torri she stopped on that 2 on the turn. Clearly there have always been spectacular spots but the players often watched the final outcome “helplessly”. What does it mean? That in many cases there had been allins preflop from which one could not escape. An example of this kind happened at the ISOP Main Event, the same stage as the hand we are going to illustrate. In this preflop allin both players had AK but a board that gave away 4 hearts tipped the scales one way in what is one of the most painful blowouts in poker. If the shot had been played on every street, the river would probably have made those without hearts in their hands fold….

MANO VENNERI AGAINST DELRIO: 0.10% HIT

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We come to the coup of the ISOP Main Event, a tournament that will then end up in the hands of Angelo Benazzi. The peculiarity (and at the same time the beauty) of this spot is that the players ended up putting them all in the middle after the river. No one was “powerless”, in the sense given above. In fact, however, the blow was unstoppable. We are at blinds 4,000/8,000 with 8,000 ante. He opens the dance Antonino Venneri from middle position with an open-raise to 20k. Venneri has a total stack of around 700,000 chips. On the big blind there is Luca Delrio which he decides to call without further raises. Luca plays with 500k total. So both are nice and full of chips. The flop is K♥ 8♣ 2♠ and Delrio knocks, leaving the floor to his opponent who bets about the 40% of the potor 21,000. Delrio’s call is here. A J comes on the turn♥ which opens a draw of hearts. Both players check. Last card: J♦ and here Luca is the one who goes out for 15,000. Venneri announces raise to 100k! Delrio was waiting for nothing else: allin followed by the call! The showdown is amazing: Delrio shows up with K♠ K♣ which on the flop was a winner in 99.90% of cases. Venneri responds with J♠ J♣ for a amazing poker runner runner which will make him fly to the top of the chipcount! A truly crazy hand with both of them not wanting their opponent to fold