2022 Mediterranean Poker Party

$1,100 NLH MPP Open
Day: 1b
Event Info

2022 Mediterranean Poker Party

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k9
Prize
$150,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$1,000,000
Entries
900
Level Info
Level
39
Blinds
600,000 / 1,200,000
Ante
1,200,000
Players Info - Day 1b
Entries
256
Players Left
38

Updated Counts On Break

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Georgios Skarparis cy
Georgios Skarparis
400,000
35,000
35,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Profile photo of Edgard Raffoul lb
Edgard Raffoul
350,000
350,000
350,000
Profile photo of Iurii Brechalov ru
Iurii Brechalov
330,000
-70,000
-70,000
Profile photo of Charalampos Chatzithoma cy
Charalampos Chatzithoma
310,000
-100,000
-100,000
Profile photo of Voziianov Artem ru
Voziianov Artem
305,000
305,000
305,000
Profile photo of Evgeniy Golenko kz
Evgeniy Golenko
285,000
285,000
285,000
Profile photo of Mohammad Ferdosian ir
Mohammad Ferdosian
270,000
270,000
270,000
Profile photo of Metin Kaplanoglu tr
Metin Kaplanoglu
250,000
250,000
250,000
Profile photo of Michel Habib lb
Michel Habib
245,000
50,100
50,100
Profile photo of Anatoly Nikitin ru
Anatoly Nikitin
230,000

Break Time

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Players are on a 15-minute break and there is only this time remaining for late registration.

Day 1b has attracted 256 players with 100 players remaining.

Raddichi Doubles Through Golaszewski

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

There were 110,000 in the middle on a board of {q-Hearts}{6-Hearts}{3-Hearts}{7-Clubs}{4-Clubs} and Andrea Radicchi moved all in for 65,400 from the button.

Arkadiusz Golaszewski went deep into the tank and had the clock called on him after four minutes. The tournament director counted down to three and Golaszewski made the call.

Andrea Radicchi: {a-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}
Arkadiusz Golaszewski: {a-Spades}{q-Spades}

Radicchi hit their gutshot straight on the river and managed to get paid off by top pair. The Italian now has double of average stack.

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Andrea Radicchi it
Andrea Radicchi
240,800
Profile photo of Arkadiusz Golaszewski de
Arkadiusz Golaszewski
67,000

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Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
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Soleimanian Pocket Rocket Rockets Him Up Leaderboard

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

PokerNews just got to the action in time as cards were on their backs in a cold deck situation. Ali Soleimanian was all in from the cutoff versus the hijack.

Ali Soleimanian: {a-Spades}{a-Diamonds}
Opponent: {a-Clubs}{k-Hearts}

It was a great situation for Soleimanian, clearly. The flop fell {k-Spades}{q-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds} to give his opponent two outs, but the {8-Diamonds} turn and {6-Hearts} river secured him the huge double to give the Iranian almost five times starting stack as the end of the late registration period in almost here.

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Ali Soleimanian ir
Ali Soleimanian
241,500

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,000/2,500

Ante: 2,500

Tsymbal Moves Back to Starting Stack

Level 11 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

After a 4,000 chip raise from the cutoff, the small button moved all in for 16,000. Action was on Igor Tsymbal in the small blind who then moved all in himself, for around 27,000 chips.

It folded back to the original raiser who shrugged as he let his hands go putting cards on their backs.

Opponent: {a-Spades}{8-Spades}
Igor Tsymbal: {q-Clubs}{q-Diamonds}

The board of {8-Hearts}{7-Hearts}{2-Hearts}{k-Spades}{k-Hearts} was good enough for Tsymbal, as neither he or his opponent had a heart in their hand, giving him the much needed chip up back around starting stack.

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Igor Tsymbal ru
Igor Tsymbal
49,000

Habib Scores A Double

Level 11 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

There was 73,000 in the middle on the turn of {q-Spades}{10-Spades}{9-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds} and the cutoff was deep into the tank after Michel Habib in the hijack moved all in for 62,300.

A tablemate was getting frustrated with the time the cutoff was taking and asked for the clock, which prompted the cutoff to make a call before the floor could be beckoned.

Michel Habib: {k-Clubs}{q-Clubs}
Cutoff: {j-Clubs}{j-Hearts}

The cutoff was up and down but Habib was ahead with a pair of queens. The {9-Hearts} paired the board on the river which was safe for Habib who scored a massive double up.

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Michel Habib lb
Michel Habib
194,900
144,900
144,900

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Motameni Scores Quintuple Up

Level 11 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Shawn Motameni
Shawn Motameni

Shawn Motameni was all in and at risk for his last 4,300 from the cutoff against the under-the-gun player, the next player to act and both blinds.

There was no side pot and the flop of {6-Clubs}{2-Diamonds}{4-Hearts} brought a 5,500 continuation bet of sorts from the under-the-gun player, who had originally min-raised preflop but couldn't re-raise after Motameni's 4,300 all in. The next player to act in early position called the 5,500 bet and the small blind folded.

With action on the big blind he chose to raise to 25,000 chips. This aggression folded out both the other players to put cards on their backs.

Shawn Montameni: {q-Spades}{10-Clubs}
Opponent: {8-Diamonds}{5-Clubs}

Somehow Montameni was ahead against the gutshot of the big blind and managed to hold on the {k-Hearts} turn and {6-Spades} river.

''I don't believe it!'', exclaimed Montameni, as he turned his 4,300 into about half a starting stack. The big blind did take a small side pot of 11,000 for his troubles, too.

Player Chips Progress
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Shawn Motameni
23,500
23,500
23,500

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