Gianluca Betti

Italy, 26 yo | Degree in Communication Sciences | One Piece and Yu-Gi-Oh! enthusiast | Aspiring OPTCG Competitive Player | Sharing my Journey 💪🏻

[BarabbaLibero @_BarabbaLibero_]

4th Place Treasure Cup Lucca🐼
Played Mihawk🌴

Nami🟢
Nami🟢
Nami🟢
Nami🟢
Enel❌ @Progress_2126
Nami🟢
Lufy RG🟢
Lucy🟢
Enel🟢
Enel🟢🤝

Boa and Serial Zoro secured👌😎

Un ringraziamento speciale a tutti i ragazzi che viaggiano con me, non sarebbe lo stesso senza di voi🫶

[Gianluca Betti @AboutGian]

@_BarabbaLibero_ @Progress_2126 Che giocatore incredibile 🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼
Meritatissimo🔥🤝🏻💚

[Gianluca Betti @AboutGian]

Not the Lucca weekend I was hoping for 😅

Regional -> 5-3 Drop.
No TC 🥲

Definitely still a lot to improve, especially mentally when facing top players.

What’s done is done, eyes on OP16 now 🫡

More motivated than ever to keep grinding and improving!

See you in Toulouse 🔥

[Luigi Amato @LuigiAmatoTCG]

This weekend in Birmingham ended, I have to say, in the best possible way.

2nd place on Friday 7-1
1st place on Saturday 8-0
Top 32 on Sunday 6-2

For an overall score of 21-3.

These past few days, there’s been one thought stuck in my head that I honestly can’t explain. And unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I’m the kind of person who always tries to find a meaning behind everything that happens.

Why did I start winning so much right now?
Why did my Luffy, out of so many, get a Black Label?
Since January, I haven’t stopped for a single moment. I could have won any tournament, so why now? Why exactly when I lost everything?
Why in the exact moment where winning hurts almost more than losing?

Maybe there isn’t a rational explanation.
Maybe some things are not meant to be understood right away, but felt.

But now I’m sure it’s a sign. My mother and my best friend are watching over me from up there. They have become my “why” every single day. Maybe that’s exactly where the strength I’m finding comes from: the strength to keep going, to make them proud, and to keep chasing everything I promised myself.

To have real people by my side.
To chase my dreams without fear.
To travel the world as if it was my home.
And to make the people around me happy.

So many of you have supported me, and keep supporting me every day. But the most beautiful thing is that many of you have also started sharing your own stories with me, just like I shared mine.

And that’s exactly the point: sometimes we think we are alone in our pain, in our fears, or in the hardest moments of our lives. But we are not. Everyone is fighting something that others can’t see. Everyone has a weight to carry. But there is always a way to turn that weight into strength, to give meaning even to the things that feel impossible to accept.

I don’t want my story to be just my story.
I hope it can become a reminder for anyone going through a difficult moment: not everything we lose truly stops living. Sometimes it stays with us, changes form, and becomes the reason why we keep fighting.

It’s not just cards.

[Gianluca Betti @AboutGian]

@AlessioFal25992 Io e @matheos29950 ci avevamo visto lungo👀
Gg uomo 💪🏻❤️

[Gianluca Betti @AboutGian]

Extra Grand Battle at MagicHistory (PG) ⚔️

4-1 | PEnel

R1 Bell Luffy ✅
R2 Lucy ✅
R3 Sabo ✅
R4 PEnel ❌ @FedericoSantag1
R5 ✈️🚂🚗 @SamuPao9

So close to serial…
Magellan was the MVP of the build in every matchup, so sad that he feels absolutely terrible in the mirror 🥲

[Gianluca Betti @AboutGian]

@Rekrul22 Instead, by developing the game on a fully control basis with a build designed for it, going second allows me to have to deal with his first Whitebeard a turn later.

I can easily be wrong obv. This is Just My match up perspective

[Gianluca Betti @AboutGian]

7-3 score and 73rd at the Barcelona Regional this weekend.

Guess I’m only gonna play against Bell Luffy from now until Lucca 🫠

Zero Enel mirrors is actually crazy 👀

Good run overall, but I’m still far from satisfied.

I want that Top cut with every part of me 🔥

[Gianluca Betti @AboutGian]

@Rekrul22 Yes, I personally find it easier to go second against Ace in this format and with this Enel list. Going first makes me feel the need to play more aggressively, which can sometimes be difficult with a full-control build.

[Gianluca Betti @AboutGian]

@AlessioFal25992 Il cappello più bello di tutta la sala ❤️
Run incredibile uomo, prossima volta ci si becca solo in top 👀🔥

[Gianluca Betti @AboutGian]

Winning a Gamma Knife while playing a Gamma Knife deck ⚡️🔪

Sounds kinda poetic, doesn’t it? 💜

[Zhao @EM_Zhaoo]

Me everytime my opponent play Girl on turn 2

[Gianluca Betti @AboutGian]

@JellybeansOP Thank you so much 🙏🏻

[Gianluca Betti @AboutGian]

@xORPH3N @Jackl_E_ @Z___manZY @JellybeansOP Ci sta, Il mazzo secondo me non è un “one way”, è più un freestyle, non si deve adattare solo al formato ma anche al player. Una versione non è sempre per forza più scarsa di un’altra. Io per ora con questa qui, ripresa dal formato asiatico, mi sto trovando veramente bene

[Gianluca Betti @AboutGian]

Games Time Corciano Store Championship (64 players)🔥
All the work done paid off - qualified for Euros🤝🏻

5-1
Matchups:
Doffy 🟣✅
Ace 🔴🔵🎲✅
Luffy 🔴🟢🎲✅
Nami 🔵🟡❌
Gecko Moria ⚫️🟡🎲 @Jackl_E_ ✅
Enel 🟣🎲 @Z___manZY ✅

Shoutout to @JellybeansOP for the insane Enel guide

[Gianluca Betti @AboutGian]

@xORPH3N @Jackl_E_ @Z___manZY @JellybeansOP Considerato quanto frequentemente mi ci tirano sopra Zeus, onestamente non ho visto variare eccessivamente il winrate con o senza Holly ahahah
Contro la Nami del CS banalmente ho perso perché non ho visto dragon, ma non ho sentito la mancanza del cane

[Gianluca Betti @AboutGian]

@xORPH3N @Jackl_E_ @Z___manZY @JellybeansOP Enel Blocker forte, ma troppo situazionale imo
Per il cane ora come ora tutti hanno pensato ad una risposta early, senza nemmeno aspettare che lo pieghi, in generale in testing mi sono trovato molto bene anche senza

[Gianluca Betti @AboutGian]

@SkepasG @BigEOPTC @TheSleeveChief Congrats for 3k man! 🙌🏻
I particularly enjoyed the “How to find Lethal” with P-Enel video. So other like that would be Gold 👀❤️

[George Skeparnides @SkepasG]

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I will pick the winner on Monday 20th of April live on stream!
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[Gianluca Betti @AboutGian]

Top 4 @ CardMaster23 3v3 (AR) – 15 teams

Team ReferenDOOM
SX 🔴🔵Lucy | C 🟣Enel | DX 🟡Kalgara
Personal score: X-0 in swiss

The team did great and the deck felt amazing as usual. I tested the popular Porche version with a slight change.
Might try the S&P build next (?) 👀