$2,200 Warm Up Day 3 | 2023 Merit Poker Gangster Series

11-25-2023 20:42 UTC+2

Alisa Sibgatova Eliminated in 26th Place ($5,170)

Ryan Lashmar

Level 23 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Nuno Correia opened to 80,000 from middle position and Alisa Sibgatova moved all in for approximately 500,000 from the cutoff. Correia, who covered Sibgatova slightly, snap-called to put her at risk.

Alisa Sibgatova: 9♠9♣
Nuno Correia: A♠A♥

Sibgatova was in bad shape against Correia's aces and failed to find any improvement on the K♥K♠8♦10♣6♠ runout, resulting in her elimination while Correia secured nearly a full double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nuno Correia	1,200,000 550,000	550,000
Alisa Sibgatova	Busted

Tags: Alisa Sibgatova Nuno Correia

11-25-2023 20:37 UTC+2

Yiannakis Papapetrou Eliminated in 27th Place ($5,920)

Ryan Lashmar

Level 23 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Bakhos Joumaa opened to 160,000 from early position and Yiannakis Papapetrou moved all in for his last 340,000. Action folded around to Joumaa who called with a covering stack to put Papapetrou at risk.

Yiannakis Papapetrou: A♠K♠
Bakhos Joumaa: 8♠8♦

Joumaa pulled ahead on the K♥Q♠4♥ flop and remained ahead on the 3♥ turn and J♥ river to send Papapetrou to the rail and collect the last of his chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bakhos Joumaa	5,700,000 350,000	350,000
Yiannakis Papapetrou	Busted

Tags: Bakhos Joumaa Yiannakis Papapetrou

11-25-2023 20:34 UTC+2

Updated Chip Counts After dinner Break

Ryan Lashmar

Level 23 : 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Bakhos Joumaa	5,350,000 1,000,000	1,000,000
Feyzullah Karaarslan	3,425,000 615,000	615,000
Bernard Boutboul	2,950,000 -10,000	-10,000
Ankit Ahuja	2,890,000 240,000	240,000
Giorgiy Skhulukhiya	2,805,000 905,000	905,000
Hadi Khadra	2,740,000 430,000	430,000
Andrei Daniliuk	2,650,000 -1,820,000	-1,820,000

Oleg Netaliev	2,440,000 -40,000	-40,000
Ivan Govorov	2,260,000 -90,000	-90,000
Yunsheng Sun	2,255,000 -225,000	-225,000

Leonid Sidelkovskiy	1,375,000 -25,000	-25,000
Damir Gabdullin	1,300,000 -200,000	-200,000
Tugce Hursoz	1,260,000 -490,000	-490,000
Martynas Vitkauskas	1,130,000 25,000	25,000
Dmitry Yurasov	1,130,000 185,000	185,000

Tahsin Cankurtaranli	1,020,000 85,000	85,000
Nikolay Ponomarev	955,000 -745,000	-745,000
Harout Ghazarian	700,000 -5,000	-5,000
Nuno Correia	650,000 -280,000	-280,000
Ihor Kaliahin	650,000 -90,000	-90,000
Nikolay Fal	600,000 -195,000	-195,000
Alisa Sibgatova	600,000 -35,000	-35,000
Sakis Adrianopoulos	600,000 135,000	135,000
Antoine Hasbani	590,000 -70,000	-70,000
Yiannakis Papapetrou	350,000 -50,000	-50,000

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Level: 23

Blinds: 20,000/40,000

Ante: 40,000

11-25-2023 19:36 UTC+2

Dinner Break

Ryan Lashmar

Level 22 : Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

The final 27 players are now on a 60-minute dinner break.

11-25-2023 19:30 UTC+2

Karaarslan Pressures Daniliuk

Ryan Lashmar

Level 22 : Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

Andrei Daniliuk opened to 60,000 from the button and Feyzullah Karaarslan three-bet to 160,000 from the big blind. Daniliuk made the call.

The flop came 9♥7♠7♣ and Karaarslan fired a 105,000 continuation bet which was called by Daniliuk.

Karaarslan bet again for 205,000 on the 3♠ turn and Daniliuk made the call.

The river was the 9♣. Karaarslan bet 510,000, sending Daniliuk into the tank.

After a couple minutes Daniliuk mucked his hand and Karaarslan took down a sizable pot without showdown.

Player	Chips	Progress
Feyzullah Karaarslan	3,450,000 640,000	640,000
Andrei Daniliuk	2,475,000 -1,995,000	-1,995,000

Tags: Andrei Daniliuk Feyzullah Karaarslan

11-25-2023 18:59 UTC+2

Three Table Redraw

Jeremy Geist

Level 22 : Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Bernard Boutboul	France	2,960,000	99
1	2	Maksim Skripkin	Russia	600,000	20
1	3	Harout Ghazarian	Canada	705,000	24
1	4	Giorgiy Skhulukhiya	Georgia	1,900,000	63
1	5	Antoine Hasbani	Lebanon	660,000	22
1	6	Bakhos Joumaa	Lebanon	4,350,000	145
1	7	Nikolay Ponomarev	United Kingdom	1,700,000	57
1	8	Yiannakis Papapetrou	Cyprus	400,000	13
1	9	Ivan Govorov	Russia	2,350,000	78

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
2	1	Ankit Ahuja	India	2,650,000	88
2	2	Damir Gabdullin	Russia	1,500,000	50
2	3	Yunsheng Sun	China	2,480,000	83
2	4	Sakis Adrianopoulos	Greece	465,000	16
2	5	Andrei Daniliuk	Russia	4,470,000	149
2	6	Oleg Netaliev	Russia	2,480,000	83
2	7	Feyzullah Karaarslan	Turkey	2,810,000	94
2	8	Tugce Hursoz	Turkey	1,750,000	58
2	9	Ihor Kaliahin	Ukraine	740,000	25

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
3	1	Leonid Sidelkovskiy	Russia	1,400,000	47
3	2	Sultan Meirbekov	Kazakhstan	1,970,000	66
3	3	Nuno Correia	Portugal	930,000	31
3	4	Hadi Khadra	Lebanon	2,310,000	77
3	5	Nikolay Fal	Russia	795,000	27
3	6	Martynas Vitkauskas	Lithuania	1,105,000	37
3	7	Alisa Sibgatova	Russia	635,000	21
3	8	Dmitry Yurasov	Russia	945,000	32
3	9	Tahsin Cankurtaranli	Turkey	935,000	31

11-25-2023 18:58 UTC+2

Chip Counts for Remaining 27 Players (full)

Jeremy Geist

Level 22 : Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrei Daniliuk	4,470,000 1,615,000	1,615,000

Bakhos Joumaa	4,350,000 -450,000	-450,000
Bernard Boutboul	2,960,000 135,000	135,000
Feyzullah Karaarslan	2,810,000 1,010,000	1,010,000
Ankit Ahuja	2,650,000 250,000	250,000
Yunsheng Sun	2,480,000 1,380,000	1,380,000

Oleg Netaliev	2,480,000 580,000	580,000
Ivan Govorov	2,350,000 250,000	250,000
Hadi Khadra	2,310,000 835,000	835,000
Sultan Meirbekov	1,970,000 40,000	40,000
Giorgiy Skhulukhiya	1,900,000 950,000	950,000
Tugce Hursoz	1,750,000 800,000	800,000
Nikolay Ponomarev	1,700,000 1,100,000	1,100,000
Damir Gabdullin	1,500,000 -200,000	-200,000
Leonid Sidelkovskiy	1,400,000 -150,000	-150,000
Martynas Vitkauskas	1,105,000 -145,000	-145,000
Dmitry Yurasov	945,000 330,000	330,000

Tahsin Cankurtaranli	935,000 85,000	85,000
Nuno Correia	930,000 730,000	730,000
Nikolay Fal	795,000 -375,000	-375,000
Ihor Kaliahin	740,000 -60,000	-60,000
Harout Ghazarian	705,000 -995,000	-995,000
Antoine Hasbani	660,000 285,000	285,000
Alisa Sibgatova	635,000 -40,000	-40,000
Maksim Skripkin	600,000 -270,000	-270,000