$1,100 NLH MPP Open Day 1b | 2022 Mediterranean Poker Party

08-20-2022 21:47 UTC+3

Player	Chips	Progress
Georgios Skarparis	400,000 35,000	35,000
Edgard Raffoul	350,000 350,000	350,000
Iurii Brechalov	330,000 -70,000	-70,000
Charalampos Chatzithoma	310,000 -100,000	-100,000
Voziianov Artem	305,000 305,000	305,000
Evgeniy Golenko	285,000 285,000	285,000
Mohammad Ferdosian	270,000 270,000	270,000
Metin Kaplanoglu	250,000 250,000	250,000
Michel Habib	245,000 50,100	50,100
Anatoly Nikitin	230,000

Break Time

Chris Bean

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.

08-20-2022 21:31 UTC+3

Raddichi Doubles Through Golaszewski

Chris Bean

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

There were 110,000 in the middle on a board of 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:
Arkadiusz Golaszewski:

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
Andrea Radicchi	240,800
Arkadiusz Golaszewski	67,000

08-20-2022 21:19 UTC+3

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Chad Holloway

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

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08-20-2022 21:15 UTC+3

Soleimanian Pocket Rocket Rockets Him Up Leaderboard

Toogood32

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:
Opponent:

It was a great situation for Soleimanian, clearly. The flop fell to give his opponent two outs, but the turn and 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
Ali Soleimanian	241,500

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,000/2,500

Ante: 2,500

08-20-2022 20:55 UTC+3

Tsymbal Moves Back to Starting Stack

Toogood32

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:
Igor Tsymbal:

The board of 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
Igor Tsymbal	49,000

08-20-2022 20:45 UTC+3

Some Bigger Stacks In The Room

Toogood32

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Charalampos Chatzithoma	410,000 29,000	29,000
Iurii Brechalov	400,000 400,000	400,000
Georgios Skarparis	365,000 46,500	46,500
Georgios Tsouloftas	250,000 -26,000	-26,000
Spyrou Spyros	205,000 42,000	42,000
Andrey Litvinov	185,000 -14,000	-14,000
Koray Korkmaz	170,000 170,000	170,000
Ian Gascoigne	160,000 160,000	160,000

08-20-2022 20:44 UTC+3

Habib Scores A Double

Chris Bean

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

There was 73,000 in the middle on the turn of 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:
Cutoff:

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Michel Habib	194,900 144,900	144,900

Tags: Michel Habib

08-20-2022 20:26 UTC+3

Motameni Scores Quintuple Up

Toogood32

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

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 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:
Opponent:

Somehow Montameni was ahead against the gutshot of the big blind and managed to hold on the turn and 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
Shawn Motameni	23,500 23,500	23,500

Tags: Shawn Motameni