2022 Mediterranean Poker Party
Level: 7
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 800
Players in Day 1b of Event #7 are on a 15-minute break.
Currently 191 players have entered the flight, with 163 remaining. Average stack is 58,500 chips with blinds going to 400/800 wit big blind ante of 800.
Late registration is open until the end of Level 12 with a 60-minute dinner break due at the end of Level 9.
Joining the action with a heap of blue chips in the middle that equated around 50,000, Rudolf Domin was betting 25,000 on the ![]()
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board from the hijack. His early position opponent mucked their holding.
In the next hand, the same two players were involved. After the under-the-gun open to his right of 1,200, Domin called next to act. Then action folded around to Ravil Khamatgareev in the cutoff and he decided on a raise to 4,500. The button then cold called and with action back on the early position players, they both folded.
To a flop of ![]()
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and Khamatgareev made it 5,000 which got a quick fold from the button player.
With 37,000 in the middle at the turn with the board of ![]()
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, Ufuk Erkmen bet 7,500 and was called in the small blind by Alexander Zubov.
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landed on the river to make a fourth spade on an already paired board. Zubov grabbed a handful of blue 5,000 chips which covered Erkmen's stack. The Turk took two minutes before making the call for 15,700.
Ufuk Erkmen: ![]()
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Alexander Zubov: ![]()
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Zubov turned their pocket kings into a bluff, but it wasn't enough to shake Erkmen off the third highest flush available. Erkmen gets a double and Zubov is around starting stack.
Level: 6
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
With action heads-up on the river, there was at least 18,000 in the middle on a board of ![]()
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. Alex Peffly checked from early position against the hijack of Luc Bindel.
Bindel paused, then counted out 16,200 chips and placed them into the pot. Within about 8 seconds Peffly, who sports his patented retro Kangol viser had made the call. The French player out of Cyprus flipped over ![]()
and Peffly let out an agitated ''Urgh'' as he mucked his hand, awarding a large pot to Bindel.
With 24,000 in the middle on a completed board of ![]()
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the big blind bet 20,000.
Jeff Cormier in the cutoff thought over their decision for a minute before sliding in the call. The big blind turned over ![]()
for tens and fours with a king kicker. Cormier tabled ![]()
for a better two pair.
"You almost had me convinced you had it!" said the Canadian to his opponent as he moved towards a six-figure stack
With 13,000 in the middle at the turn on a board of ![]()
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, the hijack bet 4,400 and was called by Viktor Mukhin in the big blind.
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completed the board and the hijack bet 10,500. Mukhin made the call and the hijack mucked instantly allowing Mukhin to drag in the pot without showing their hand,