Main Event
Day 1c Completed
Main Event
Day 1c Completed
The third starting flight of the $5,300 Main Event here at the Merit Poker Classic has come to an end with 96 players out of 202 entries in total making it through to Day 2 tomorrow, Thursday, May 2. Claiming the Day 1c chip lead is Germany’s Anton Morgenstern with 604,600.
Morgenstern earned most of those chips when he called his opponent’s bluff and kept on building to finish at the top of the chip counts at the end of the day. Other notable players who bagged an above average stack include Dmitry Gromov (487,500), Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy (438,400), Saar Wilf (369,000), Uri Gilboa (350,400), Milad Oghabian (307,000), Jeff Hakim (292,000), Nicolas Chouity (287,500), Anton Wigg (212,000), and Paul Newey with 210,100.
The partypoker pros who played today have all made it through with Anatoly Filatov leading the group, bagging 353,000 in the end after having to reenter earlier in the day. Dzmitry Urbanovich tagged 205,200 which is still above average. Joni Jouhkimainen will take 134,000 with him to Day 2 which is still good for more than 50 big blinds.
Day 1d is set to start at 9:30 PM local time which will feature eight levels too but they will only last 30 minutes each. Day 1e starts before Day 2, at 10 AM which will have eight 20-minute levels. The seat draw for Day 2 is to follow and will be posted as soon as the PokerNews live reporting team receives them from the organization. Day 2 will start at 1:30 PM on Thursday, May 9 so make sure to return then for all the action from the Merit Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino.
2019 Merit Poker Classic $5,300 Main Event Schedule
Day | Date | Starting Time | Late Reg | Entries | Survivors | Further Information |
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1a | Monday May 6th | 12:00 | Thursday May 9, ~19:00 | 93 | 43 | Play 8 Levels of 60 minutes |
1b | Tuesday May 7th | 12:00 | Thursday May 9, ~19:00 | 161 | 80 | Play 8 Levels of 60 minutes |
1c | Wednesday May 8th | 12:00 | Thursday May 9, ~19:00 | 202 | 96 | Play 8 Levels of 60 minutes |
1d | Wednesday May 8th | 21:30 | Thursday May 9, ~19:00 | - | - | Play 8 Levels of 30 minutes |
1e | Thursday May 9th | 10:00 | Thursday May 9, ~19:00 | - | - | Play 8 Levels of 20 minutes |
2 | Thursday May 9th | 13:30 | Thursday May 9, ~19:00 | - | - | Play 6 Levels of 75 minutes |
3 | Friday May 10th | 12:00 | Closed | - | - | TBD |
4 | Saturday May 11th | 12:00 | Closed | - | - | TBD |
5 | Sunday May 12th | 12:00 | Closed | - | - | Play down to a winner |
The full chip counts will be posted as soon as PokerNews receives them from the organization together with a seat draw. A recap of today is to follow.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Anton Morgenstern |
604,600
29,600
|
29,600 |
|
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Naji Tanuri
|
563,100
563,100
|
563,100 |
Tarek Yassine |
504,600
504,600
|
504,600 |
Karwan Hasan |
491,400
491,400
|
491,400 |
Dmitry Gromov |
487,500
-17,500
|
-17,500 |
|
||
Michael Sklenicka |
450,300
250,300
|
250,300 |
Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy |
438,400
209,400
|
209,400 |
Charbel Salloum |
431,600
431,600
|
431,600 |
Pavel Yakobson |
421,600
421,600
|
421,600 |
Vladimir Lelgant |
400,900
400,900
|
400,900 |
Mehmet Kolgu |
388,400
388,400
|
388,400 |
Kemal Aslan |
385,400
385,400
|
385,400 |
Andreas Christoforou |
385,000
385,000
|
385,000 |
Mger Pogosyan
|
380,200
380,200
|
380,200 |
Vlad Darie |
375,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
|
||
Saar Wilf |
369,000
145,000
|
145,000 |
Imad Saab
|
364,600
364,600
|
364,600 |
Yigit Aksoy |
356,500
356,500
|
356,500 |
Igor Ovcharenko |
356,000
356,000
|
356,000 |
Anatoly Filatov |
353,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
Uri Gilboa |
350,400
-29,600
|
-29,600 |
|
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Patrick El Kallas |
342,800
342,800
|
342,800 |
John Six
|
341,300
341,300
|
341,300 |
Michel Atallah
|
324,500
324,500
|
324,500 |
Milad Oghabian |
307,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
The tournament clock has been paused and three more hands need to be dealt before the remaining players can bag and tag their chips.
The player in the early position raised to 5,000, Anatoly Filatov three-bet to 13,000 from the lojack. The player in hijack called and the initial raiser folded.
The flop came on which they both checked to see the land on the turn. Filatov now bet 20,000 and his opponent called.
The river completed the board with the to bring the flush on the board. Filatov bet 135,000 which covered the 95,000 his opponent had left. After tanking for a minute, he decided to risk his tournament life which was the wrong decision as Filatov held for the nut-flush while he himself mucked. The dealer revealed he held for the lower flush.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Anatoly Filatov |
332,000
72,000
|
72,000 |
Freek Scholten | Busted | |
Oshri Lahmani | Busted |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Anton Morgenstern |
575,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
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Karawan Hassan
|
470,000 | |
Georgios Sotiropoulos |
240,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
|
||
Paul Newey |
228,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Saar Wilf |
224,000
-41,000
|
-41,000 |
Dzmitry Urbanovich |
200,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
Bulent Sahin |
66,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
Kacper Pyzara |
60,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
The board read with 40,000 in the middle already.
Uri Gilboa had bet 20,000 from under the gun and his opponent in the middle position raised to 50,000. Gilboa responded with a shove, having his opponent covered which cause him to dive into the tank. After a while, the mid-position player opted to fold.
Gilboa showed he held for the flopped two pair and turned full house.
"Good fold," Gilboa commented.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Uri Gilboa |
380,000
107,000
|
107,000 |
|
Level: 8
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 2,000
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Georges Hanna |
370,000
-88,000
|
-88,000 |
Jeff Hakim |
299,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
Anatoly Filatov |
260,000
164,000
|
164,000 |
Oshri Lahmani |
230,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
Kyriakos Papadopoulos |
230,000
-40,000
|
-40,000 |
Fady Kamar |
209,000
49,000
|
49,000 |
Aristeidis Moschonas |
175,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
Nicolas Chouity |
170,000
-30,000
|
-30,000 |
|
||
Garik Tamasyan |
109,000
-81,000
|
-81,000 |
Toni Judet |
86,000
39,000
|
39,000 |
Freek Scholten |
30,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
Martins Adeniya | Busted | |
Shaul Meir | Busted | |
|
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Aleksey Savenkov | Busted | |
Natalia Panchenko | Busted |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Anton Morgenstern |
570,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
|
||
Vlad Darie |
320,000
-30,000
|
-30,000 |
|
||
Milad Oghabian |
305,000
67,100
|
67,100 |
Uri Gilboa |
273,000
63,000
|
63,000 |
|
||
Saar Wilf |
265,000
-26,000
|
-26,000 |
Jack O'Neill |
230,000
-104,000
|
-104,000 |
Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy |
229,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
Paul Newey |
218,000
103,000
|
103,000 |
Christophe De Meulder |
205,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
Michael Sklenicka |
200,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
Anton Wigg |
188,000
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
|
||
Guillaume Diaz |
188,000
58,000
|
58,000 |
Dragos Trofimov |
180,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
Martins Adeniya |
135,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
Hossein Ensan |
120,000
16,000
|
16,000 |
|
||
Aleksandr Gofman |
110,000
-110,000
|
-110,000 |
Liviu Ignat |
92,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
Javier Fernandez |
78,300
23,300
|
23,300 |
Mihai Manole |
49,000
5,000
|
5,000 |