2015 partypoker WPT National Cyprus

Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2015 partypoker WPT National Cyprus

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kk
Prize
€75,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€1,800
Prize Pool
€300,312
Entries
172
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000

Bendik Bent Over

Level 11 : 600/1,200, 200 ante
Jan Bendik
Jan Bendik

Jan Bendik started the day as one of the bigger stacks and has just been sent to the rail. Twice he lost against sets of opponents, the second time with pocket nines against Sinem Melin's set of threes. The Slovakian was then all in for his last 12,000 with pocket eights and Alper Kostem held pocket queens to score the knockout.

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Alper Kostem tr
Alper Kostem
135,000
34,600
34,600
Profile photo of Sinem Melin gb
Sinem Melin
35,000
5,000
5,000
Profile photo of Jan Bendik sk
Jan Bendik
Busted

Tags: Alper KostemJan BendikSinem Melin

Luca Keeps Stacking

Level 11 : 600/1,200, 200 ante
Ivan Luca
Ivan Luca

Ivan Luca defended his blind against a raise of Ercan Olgun and found a flop of {J-} {2-} {4-}. The Argentinian check-called a bet of 2,200 and check-raised the {Q-} turn from 5,400 to 14,300. Olgun moved all in for around 60,000 with ace-high and Luca called with queen-jack for two pair, already being guaranteed the knockout.

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Ivan Luca ar
Ivan Luca
169,000
69,000
69,000
Profile photo of Ercan Olgun tr
Ercan Olgun
Busted

Tags: Ercan OlgunIvan Luca

75 Players Heading into Day 2 of the partypoker WPT National Cyprus

Registration is open until the end of Level 12
Registration is open until the end of Level 12

After two starting days with 149 entries in total, almost exactly half of the field remains as 75 players will be returning to the tables for Day 2 of the €1,800+200 World Poker Tour National Cyprus. The late registration at the Noah's Ark Deluxe Hotel & Spa remains open until the end of level 12 and the action resumes at 13:00 local time (12:00 CET) with level 10 at blinds 500-1,000 and a running ante of 100.

Furthermore, all participants can also still take advantage of a single re-entry until the end of level 12, which would provide a fresh stack of 30,000 chips at blinds 800-1,600 / ante 200.

Yesterday's Day 1b had less runners than Day 1a and thus it comes as no surprise that Sergey Minaev remains in the overall lead with his astonishing 193,300 chips. Season 11 EPT Prague finalist Miltiadis Kyriakides accumulated 159,600, which is good for second place overall.

Dimitar Yosifov follows in third place with 157,100 and Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi (138,900) as well as Ara Melkistian (132,200) are the biggest stacks at the start. The level duration increases to 60 minutes for Day 2 as well as the final, leaving more room to make some moves or grind out a short stack to ensure a portion of the guaranteed €300,000 prize pool.

The current top 10 are as follows:

PlacePlayerChips
1Sergey Minaev193,300
2Miltiadis Kyriakides159,600
3Dimitar Yosifov157,100
4Michael Mizrachi138,900
5Ara Melkistian132,200
6Aykutalp Yılmaz116,600
7Amir Ali Etemad Saeid111,600
8Onur Unsal104,900
9Alper Kostem100,400
10Jan Bendik92,800

Among the other notables are Erwann Pecheux (91,900), Barny Boatman (90,400), Kelly Kim (88,200), Sergey Rybachenko (71,200), Manig Loeser (70,200), Dimitar Danchev (57,600), [Removed:2] (56,400) and Simeon Naydenov (54,900). Chino Rheem busted on both bullets yesterday but is expected to join the competition once again.

The PokerNews live reporting is all set up for another interesting day on the felt and will bring you the most important key hands on the way to crown yet another WPT National champion on Monday.

Tags: Ara MelkistianChino RheemDavid RheemDimitar YosifovMichael MizrachiMiltiadis KyriakidesSergey Minaev