$5,300 MPP Main Event Day 3 | 2022 Mediterranean Poker Party

09-02-2022 10:16 UTC+3

Frank, Lovgren, and Peters Headline Final 161 of the MPP Main Event as the Bubble Looms

David Salituro

The race to the money is on when Day 3 of the $5,300 Luxon Pay Mediterranean Poker Party Main Event begins at noon local time.

Just 161 players out of a starting field of 1,032 will return inside the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel, but only 155 will finish in the money. Six players will leave North Cyprus empty-handed.

Christopher Frank is in no danger of being one of them. The German pro with more than $2,500,000 in career live winnings surged toward the end of the night yesterday and enters Day 3 in the top five with 1,710,000. Sergey Bobrik is the chip leader with 2,366,000, followed by Andrey Litvinov (2,173,000), Dawid Smolka (2,050,000), and Ran Ilani (1,920,000).

Day 3 Top 10 Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Sergey Bobrik	Russia	2,366,000	148
2	Andrey Litvinov	Russia	2,173,000	136
3	Dawid Smolka	Poland	2,050,000	128
4	Ran Ilani	Israel	1,920,000	120
5	Christopher Frank	Germany	1,710,000	107
6	Justus Held	Austria	1,610,000	101
7	Viktor Kudinov	Russia	1,540,000	96
8	Juan Jose Membreno Orellana	Panama	1,497,000	94
9	Zolbayar Batbold	Mongolia	1,472,000	92
10	Siarhei Chudapal	Belarus	1,380,000	86

Also near the top of the leaderboard are Sofia Lovgren (1,250,000) and David Peters (913,000). Further down the counts are Niall Farrell (613,000), Phillip Nagy (559,000), Tony G (305,000), Bruno Fitoussi (261,000), Faraz Jaka (192,000), and Paul Phua (161,000).

Action will pick up on Level 19, with blinds of 8,000/16,000 and a 16,000 big blind ante. There will be a 20-minute break after every two levels, and a 60-minute dinner break following Level 24. The plan for today is to play 10 hour-long levels.

The money bubble is near and the final table awaits for the surviving 161 players. PokerNews will be on hand throughout the day as the field inches its way towards crowning a champion at this seaside resort in the eastern Mediterranean.

Tags: Andrey Litvinov Bruno Fitoussi Christopher Frank David Peters Dawid Smolka Faraz Jaka Niall Farrell Paul Phua Phillip Nagy Ran Ilani Sergey Bobrik Sofia Lovgren Tony G

09-02-2022 10:15 UTC+3

Day 3 Seat Draw

David Salituro

Table	Seat	Player	Chip Count
1	1	Armin Rezaei	348,000
1	2	Sebastian Hoyos	610,000
1	3	Yulian Bogdanov	730,000
1	4	Bruno Volkmann	544,000
1	5	Pedro Garagnani	917,000
1	6	Rassul Abdukhalilov	301,000
1	7	Andrei Kaigorodtcev	184,000
1	8	Dario Quattrucci	448,000

2	1	Christian Zachar	273,000
2	2	Basel Khabbazeh	729,000
2	3	Giuliano Boellis	542,000
2	4	Igor Baliner	300,000
2	5	Alexey Badulin	807,000
2	6	Samuel Mullur	489,000
2	7	Sofia Lovgren	1,250,000
2	8	Natalia Nikitina	741,000

3	1	Ihar Soika	221,000
3	2	Charbel Ibrahim	1,074,000
3	3	Hannes Jeschka	1,035,000
3	4	Jordan Woodall	351,000
3	5	Osman Ihlamur	932,000
3	6	Milos Petakovic	309,000
3	7	Kyle Maguire	913,000
3	8	Yury Salikaev	130,000

4	1	Vladislav Naumov	334,000
4	2	Tony G	305,000
4	3	Joseph Haddad	405,000
4	4	Jonas Plaar	614,000
4	5	Ravil Khamatgareev	318,000
4	6	In Ho Song	601,000
4	7	[Removed:446]	541,000
4	8	Colin Gillon	259,000

5	1	Berc Sindiroglu	322,000
5	2	Saar Wilf	572,000
5	3	Christopher Frank	1,710,000
5	4	Edgard Raffoul	438,000
5	5	Viktor Mukhin	102,000
5	6	Florian Duta	1,351,000
5	7	Artem Voziianov	753,000
5	8	David Peters	913,000

6	1	Christos Leantzis	1,137,000
6	2	Rustam Khamatgareev	522,000
6	3	Nadar Kakhmazov	338,000
6	4	Yiannis Liperis	567,000
6	5	Justus Held	1,610,000
6	6	Mihai Niste	316,000
6	7	Dean Hutchison	700,000
6	8	Maximiliano Gallardo	80,000

7	1	Ivan Sakharov	617,000
7	2	Vladimir Shabalin	689,000
7	3	Lennart Strauch	145,000
7	4	Alexander Tkatschew	308,000
7	5	Viktor Kudinov	1,540,000
7	6	Paul Phua	161,000
7	7	Daniel Thaller	867,000
7	8	Ludovic Periaux	294,000

8	1	Grigoli Liklikadze	296,000
8	2	Jordan Allan	732,000
8	3	Tom Talboom	612,000
8	4	Sergey Bobrik	2,366,000
8	5	Siarhei Chudapal	1,380,000
8	6	Alex Peffly	772,000
8	7	Bruno Fitoussi	261,000
8	8	Gabriel Akiki	1,018,000

9	1	Alberto Meran	595,000
9	2	Ahmed Savas	762,000
9	3	Vladimir Dobrovolski	347,000
9	4	Christian Rudolph	156,000
9	5	Nikolay Fal	720,000
9	6	Emrah Cakmak	942,000
9	7	Lavrentiy Ni	727,000
9	8	Halil Baybars	664,000

10	1	Halil Tasyurek	690,000
10	2	Kannapong Thanarattrakul	903,000
10	3	Dragos Trofimov	620,000
10	4	Paul Zehetleitner	544,000
10	5	Daniel Rezaei	881,000
10	6	Oleg Netaliev	942,000
10	7	Paulina Loeliger	269,000
10	8	James Harvey	1,158,000

11	1	Filippo Lazzaretto	1,208,000
11	2	Thomas Mayer	116,000
11	3	Nikolai Tulin	1,294,000
11	4	Ran Ilani	1,920,000
11	5	Ravid Garbi	136,000
11	6	Garik Tamasian	291,000
11	7	Ghanim Dashti	635,000
11	8	Dmitry Gromov	326,000

12	1	Rudolf Domin	249,000
12	2	Vladislav Ivanov	162,000
12	3	Alexander Gofman	882,000
12	4	Elias Abou Saleh	132,000
12	5	Irina Zheleznyak	679,000
12	6	Rafael Aslanli	242,000
12	7	Riccardo Saraniero	247,000
12	8	Anton Markov	330,000

13	1	Andrei Berinov	474,000
13	2	Faraz Jaka	192,000
13	3	Aleksei Petrov	769,000
13	4	Hakan Tatli	485,000
13	5	Mehdi Chaoui	125,000
13	6	Eleftherios Kavvadas	392,000
13	7	Dmitry Yurasov	527,000
13	8	Juan Jose Membreno Orellana	1,497,000

14	1	Alexandre Vuilleumier	695,000
14	2	Nuri Hadioglu	593,000
14	3	Kerem Akartuna	323,000
14	4	Vadim Volkhonskiy	645,000
14	5	Koray Korkmaz	1,069,000
14	6	Symeon Alexandridis	724,000
14	7	Joseph Mouwad	869,000
14	8	Nejat Erman	158,000

15	1	Aleksandr Pak	590,000
15	2	Alexey Losev	615,000
15	3	Ran Azor	188,000
15	4	Ioannis Zoitsas	499,000
15	5	Aleksandr Kirichenko	820,000
15	6	Andrea Ricci	285,000
15	7	Dimitrios Farmakoulis	200,000

16	1	Dawid Smolka	2,050,000
16	2	Emil Mattsson	297,000
16	3	Dmitriy Reznikov	576,000
16	4	Erik Cajelais	373,000
16	5	Carlos Shiu	455,000
16	6	Dmitrii Kopyl	700,000
16	7	Andrey Litvinov	2,173,000

17	1	Gytis Lazauninkas	1,020,000
17	2	Simon Higgins	1,365,000
17	3	Emin Mugulov	197,000
17	4	Evgeny Zakharov	672,000
17	5	Matthias Lipp	1,180,000
17	6	Recep Aydemir	779,000
17	7	Anatoly Nikitin	610,000

18	1	Alexandr Poberjnii	473,000
18	2	Joseph Sabe	134,000
18	3	Milen Stefanov	528,000
18	4	Rachid Amamou	403,000
18	5	Steven Warburton	575,000
18	6	Vasyl Palandiuk	918,000
18	7	Michele D'Angelo	309,000

19	1	Pavlo Veksler	326,000
19	2	Huseyin Akgul	786,000
19	3	Wael Sarkis	1,141,000
19	4	Zolbayar Batbold	1,472,000
19	5	Tamazi Skhirtladze	631,000
19	6	Phillip Nagy	559,000
19	7	Arsenii Karmatckii	629,000

20	1	Patrick Clarke	653,000
20	2	Konstantinos Nanos	420,000
20	3	Tobias Anttila	417,000
20	4	Adi Aizin	266,000
20	5	Viktor Gavrilov	352,000
20	6	Edoardo Landi	408,000
20	7	Ludovic Geilich	652,000

21	1	Juozas Bizokas	1,004,000
21	2	Niall Farrell	613,000
21	3	Yuriy Zakharov	1,020,000
21	4	Volodymyr Drokin	663,000
21	5	Felix Wei Lix Sim	1,101,000
21	6	Manuel Fritz	320,000
21	7	Thomas Pearn	459,000

$5,300 MPP Main Event

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