Erik Cajelais is the first and only player to break through the one million chip barrier here in the WPT Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event. Congratulations!
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,000,000
127,000
|
127,000 |
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Sam El Sayed has doubled up through Chino Rheem. Having been watching action elsewhere, we arrived to find Sayed counting down his remaining 268,000 chips to which Rheem was counting out to match.
The board was showing 
and Sayed's 
were proudly on display (according to Aubin Cazals, Rheem showed a seven then mucked).
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
660,000
510,000
|
510,000 |
|
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|
250,000
-270,000
|
-270,000 |
|
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Dominik Nitsche opened to 12,000 preflop and George Chaadeh moved all in for his final 35,000. Behind him Stuart Fox reraised all in for 45,000 and Nitsche made the call.
Chaadeh: 
Fox: 
Nitsche: 
The flop came 
which gave the shortest stack a few more outs but the put him within touching distance of a treble up. However, the 
on the river was enough to give Fox the entire pot, boosting himself to 145,000 and knocking out Chaadeh in 36th place.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
260,000
103,000
|
103,000 |
|
|
||
|
145,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
|
|
Busted | |
Alexey Popov have busted out in 35th place. We do not have the exit details to hand but we were handed his identification number which means he is out of here.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Andras Nemeth has been nursing a short stack for a while but not anymore because he has been eliminated.
Husnu Sincar min-raised under the gun and the action folded to Nemeth on the button. He got his 14,000 chips into the middle and Dominik Nitsche called in the big blind. Sincar tried to raise but was told Nemeth's raise was not a valid raise due to its size, so Sincar could only call.
Nitsche checked the 
flop then folded when Sincar bet.
Sincar: 
Nemeth: 
Nemeth needed running cards to a split or an eight to win but neither scenario happened as the turn and river were the and 
respectively and Nemeth became the tournament's latest casualty.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Per Ummer is back to 130,000 chips after doubling through Husnu Sincar.
Ummer's 62,000 stack went into the middle with 
which held against Sincar's 
when the community cards fell 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
130,000
130,000
|
130,000 |
Manig Loeser has become our 33rd place finisher after he lost a coinflip against Gilboa Yossi.
Loeser shoved 91,000 with 
and was looked up by Yossi's . Loeser stayed ahead right up to the river but the board double paird to counterfeit his hand and send him to the rail. The board read 
by the way.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
200,000
74,000
|
74,000 |
|
Busted | |
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Sebastien Leclercq moved all in from the big blind over a raise in the small from Artur Voskayan only to be snap-called. The Frenchman did not look happy.
Leclercq: 
Voskayan: 
The board came 
and that was enough to dispatch Leclercq.
Dominik Nitsche is lamenting his bad luck after he was eliminated by Andrey Shatilov.
Nitsche held against the Russian's for a 420,000 pot but the board ran out 
in favour (or favor if you're in the US) of Shatilov.
Elsewhere, a short-stacked Stuart Fox is out having pushed with 
and couldn't outdraw 
.
