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Players on a 10 minute break.
Recently, Tony G shared a video of his Lithuanian cheerleaders, the Tony Betties, while he was in London enjoying the olympics with the Lithuanian basketball team. The Royal Flush Girls here at the World Poker Tour were feeling a little "put out". Perfect excuse to have some fun off-the-felt in our opinion! Daniel 'jungleman12' Cates thought so too.
Kemal Sevevi has doubled up in yet another cooler on table 2, he held 
against Marvin Rettenmaier's 
and held (but not without a sweat) on a 
board.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
675,000
393,000
|
393,000 |
|
462,000
-532,000
|
-532,000 |
|
||
Another cooler hand, another elimination and we are down to 11 players in the WPT Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event.
Gilboa Yossi opened to 28,000 in the hijack and [Removed:2] three-bet to 61,000 from the cutoff. With the action back on him, Yossi four-bet to 115,000 and then instantly called when Maksoud moved all-in.
Maksoud: 
Yossi: 
Maksoud was drawing thinly to start with but completely dead by the turn as the board ran out 
. Yossi covered Maksoud only by a handful of chips and he has been eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,700,000
480,000
|
480,000 |
|
|
Busted |
It's grown a lot quieter here in the poker room. The earlier fireworks have dissipated and it's mostly small ball being played now by everyone involved.
The nearest we've had to action was when Kemal Sevevi opened to 26,000 and Gilboa Yossi flat-called before [Removed:2] made a squeeze play with a three bet to 75,000. He got both players to fold fairly easily, it doesn't look like these guys are going to go out due a big bluff.
Our newly crowned chip leader Walid Bou Habib saw the action fold to him int he cutoff and he set the price to play at 25,000. Erik Cajelais foolded his button but Ran Azor put up some resistance in the small blind and he called. Joseph El Khoury, in the big blind, also called.
The dealer placed the 
flop onto the felt and Azor made the uncharacteristic play of leading out from out of position. Some refer to this play as a "donk bet." Regardless of what you want to call it, it worked because Azor's two active opponents quickly became inactive and folded.
Hüsnü Sincar moved all in from UTG for just over 200,000 and it was folded around to Walid Bou Habib in the small blind who flat-called but Erik Cajelais folded in the big blind.
Sincar: 
Habib:
The board came 
and Sincar, who had been chip leader at various parts of Days 1 and 2, goes out in 13th position
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,741,000
421,000
|
421,000 |
|
Busted |
Erik Cajelais opened to 25,000 from under the gun, Ran Azor made the call but Victor Parashiv spoiled the party and three-bet to 66,000 from the button. Only Cajelais called and it was heads-up to the 
flop.
Cajelais initially checked, allowing Parashiv to fire a 66,000 continuation bet, a bet that Cajelais check-raised to 140,000. Parashiv wasted no time in moving all-in and Cajelais cards hit the muck in record quick time.
Erik Cajelais opened to 25,000 from the hijack seat and two to his left was Ran Azor, who made the call. To Azor's left is the relatively short-stacked Joseph El Khoury who moved all-in for 241,000 in total, sending Victor Parashiv into the tank.
Parashiv checked his cards, re-checked them then smiled to himself. He squirmed in his seat, exhaled loudly, counted his chips and then placed a yellow 1,000 chip on the top of his card. Everything looked like he was shaping to move all-in himself but he ultimately folded. Both other active players folded too.
"You have tens?" asked Erik Cajelais.
"Ace-king," came the reply.
The entire table's jaws dropped and they entered a brief, rather one-sided discussion about how ace-king there is a snap-call.
"I just did not want to flip for 70% of my stack," Paraschiv said as he tried to justify his tight fold.
Aram Vartevaniyn opened to 25,000 preflop before [Removed:2] made it 55,000 in the seat next to him, Vartevaniyn quickly pushed, Maksoud instantly called - it was all very simple.
Vartevaniyn: 
Maksoud:
Another ace-king versus aces battle and after the board came 
we were down to 13 players.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
900,000
253,000
|
253,000 |
|
|
Busted |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,320,000
-311,000
|
-311,000 |
|
|
1,220,000
170,000
|
170,000 |
|
1,125,000
-25,000
|
-25,000 |
|
1,120,000
227,000
|
227,000 |
|
|
994,000
94,000
|
94,000 |
|
|
||
|
978,000
-112,000
|
-112,000 |
|
675,000
-95,000
|
-95,000 |
|
||
|
|
647,000 | |
|
384,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
|
292,000
112,000
|
112,000 |
|
|
282,000
-29,000
|
-29,000 |
|
|
230,000
-128,000
|
-128,000 |
|
|
208,000
-112,000
|
-112,000 |
