Level: 17
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 2,000
2009 WPT Merit Cyprus Classic
WPT Merit Cyprus Classic Championship
Day: 4
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 WPT Merit Cyprus Classic
Buy-in
$10,000
Entries
181
Level
25
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Play Resumes
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Break Time
Joseph El Khoury Eliminated in 16th Place ($17,300)
, prompting Flack to bet 52,000.Taking his time counting out chips, El Khoury check-raised to about 140,000. We say about because, before the raise could be counted, Flack announced all in and El Khoury snap-called.
El Khoury:
Flack:
El Khoury flopped deuces full of fours, but Layne Flack has been running great when he needed it for most of this tournament. The
promptly hit the turn, drawing collective gasps from everyone at the table."What just happened?" asked the massage therapst working on Flack's shoulders.
"The most interesting turn card in the world," replied the Most Interesting Man in the World. The river was not the case deuce. It was the
, sending a stunned El Khoury to the rail."I can't believe it," he said.
"It's just like Aruba all over again," mused Flack.
Arpa Huckleberried in 17th Place ($17,300)
In the first hand, Arpa opened with a raise to 50,000 from early position and Seed countered with a reraise to 103,000. Arpa made the call, but folded to Huck's continuation bet on the
flop that would've put Arpa all in.One hand later, Seed opened with a 29,000 raise and Arpa moved all in for his last 49,000. Seed made the call holding
, which bested Arpa's 
after the board ran out 
.Seed piled up right around 560,000 in chips after the dust settled.
Sick Bluff?
The flop came paired,
. Porter checkd to Lellouche, then called a bet of 70,000. After both players checked the 
turn, Porter made a large bet of 140,000 on the river 
}. It was a bet that caused Lellouche lots of consternation. He considered his action for two solid minutes before tossing his cards into the dealer."Sick bluff," said Jonathan Little with a laugh.
Tommy Vedes Eliminated in 18th Place ($17,300)
. Lellouche quickly folded and Fung just as quickly called.Vedes:
Fung:
"I need a lady," said Vedes.
"We've seen it before," offered Layne Flack. But we would not see it this time. The turn and river were the
and . Vedes shipped his stack to Fung and left the table, the last of the Greek Cypriots to be eliminated from this tournament.
Houshiar Doubles Through Fung
, Homan Houshiar and Steven Fung got it all in, with Houshiar's tournament life on the line.Fung tabled a pocket pair of kings for the mortal nuts, but Houshiar's
was far from dead... especially not after the fell on the turn, giving him the lead.The
completed the board and Houshiar's nut heart flush earned him the pot, worth 310,000 in chips.
New Seats
Seat 1: Homan Houshiar
Seat 2: Steven Fung
Seat 3: Jonathan Little
Seat 4: Tommyy Vedes
Seat 5: Joseph El Khoury
Seat 6: Rep Porter
Seat 7: Aleh Plauski
Seat 8: Antony Lellouche
Seat 9: Layne Flack
Table 4
Seat 1: Nenad Medic
Seat 2: Ahmet Arpa
Seat 3: Kelly Kim
Seat 4: Rony Jazzar
Seat 5: Janar Kiivramees
Seat 6: Thomas Bouchon
Seat 7: Huck Seed
Seat 8: Uri Keidar
Seat 9: Safik Peltekci
Antoine Abou Khalil Eliminated; Bubble Bursts!
The bubble has burst. Perennial short stack Antoine Abou Khalil is the unfortunate player eliminated just short of the money. Khalil was under the gun with just 20,000 chips left in his stack, and the 10,000-chip big blind coming in one hand. He opted to shove. Action folded to Tommy Vedes who called the raise.
Then Anthony Lellouche, sitting in the small blind with a big stack, eyeballed Vedes' stack, which was about 160,000. Lellouche announced a raise to 80,000, giving Khalil protection by driving Vedes (and his ) out of the hand. That took the table to showdown.
Khalil: 
Lellouche: 
The board did not help either player, 
. Interestingly, Vedes would have won the hand. It didn't matter though; Lellouche took the pot and Khalil is the bubble boy.
There is now a short pause to do the two-table re-draw.