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2012 World Poker Tour Merit Cyprus Classic
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 World Poker Tour Merit Cyprus Classic
Buy-in
$4,000
Prize Pool
$1,212,694
Entries
329
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000
Level: 7
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
Break Time
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
The players have been sent on a 60-minute dinner break. Rejoin us in around an hour's time.
Tou of Duty
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Amir Touma was all in on a 
flop holding 
against Denis Kuzmin's 
. Touma was getting up to leave.
Turn: 
Touma pauses.
River: 
Touma sits back down with his newly acquired 20,000 stack. Kuzmin drops to 23,000.
Nitsche Loses Out To Merheb
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Dominik Nitsche is still nicely chipped up but he just lost a small pot to Ramez Haddad.
Both players checked the 
flop but when the 
landed on the turn Nitsche took a stab at it with a 1,300 bet. Haddad was having none of it though and he raised to 4,000. Nitsche did not have the goods to call and he sent his hand into the muck.
Chips, Lovely Chips
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
70,000 | |
|
61,300
26,100
|
26,100 |
|
56,200
12,600
|
12,600 |
|
38,300
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
||
|
28,600
-3,700
|
-3,700 |
|
22,100
-7,000
|
-7,000 |
|
21,200
-7,200
|
-7,200 |
|
16,600
-13,100
|
-13,100 |
|
12,100
-13,900
|
-13,900 |
|
|
||
Vedes Goes Postel
Tommy Vedes' tournament has come to an abrupt end at the hands of Iwan Postel.
A preflop raising war broke out between Vedes (BB) and Postel (BTN) that resulted in Vedes moving all-in with 
. Postel made the call with a suited 
, which held, and as Vedes left the tournament area Postel started to stack his 60,000 stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
60,000 | |
|
Busted | |
|
||
ZZ Bottom
It's not going to be former EPT Champion Zimnan Ziyard's day, he had bet 1,350 before Artur Voskanyan made it 4,100. Two other players folded and Ziyard made the call to see the on the turn.
Ziyard checked and Voskanyan made a bet of 7,200, the British player tanked before moving all in for 11,075 more and when Voskanyan didn't instantly call, Ziyard must have thought he had the best hand.
After a couple of minutes Voskanyan did call, with 
and Ziyard needed an ace, queen or king to help him out with his holding of 
. The river was the though and ZZ was out.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Huge Pot For Local Player Kosmadhis
One of the largest pots of the tournament so far has just gone down over on Table 6 that has seen Cyprus' own Iraklis Kosmadhis catapulted to the top of the chip counts.
The chips went flying in on a board reading 
and there were two players, Auteri Vicenzo and Elias Abou Saleh all-in and at risk of elimination and still two players left to act! Kosmadahis called all-in and when Yakup Elyakim folded the cards were revealed.
Vicenzo: for top pair king-kicker
Abou Saleh: 
for top pair top kicker
Kosmadahis: 
for a flush draw.
The 
on the turn kept Abou Saleh ahead but the 
on the river improved Kosmadahis to a hand winning flush and as he covered both all-in players he won himself a monster pot.
Vicenzo left the table as quiet as a mouse but Abou Saleh slammed his identification tag down on the felt and stormed off out of the tournament area.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
47,400 |
Level: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50