$5,300 Main Event Day 1cd | 2024 Mediterranean Poker Party

05-09-2024 11:24 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Mario Menicanin	300,000 300,000	300,000
Atilla Saracoglu	300,000 300,000	300,000
Darko Percic	300,000 300,000	300,000
Alfredo Versace	300,000 300,000	300,000
Tugce Hursoz	300,000 300,000	300,000
Farid Jattin	300,000 300,000	300,000
Oleg Furman	300,000 300,000	300,000
Dmitry Gromov	300,000 300,000	300,000

Artsiom Lasouski	300,000 300,000	300,000
Marcin Puczylowski	300,000 300,000	300,000
Tobias Peters	300,000 300,000	300,000

Newey Makes his Opponent Fold on the River

Maxime Taldir

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

Heads up on a flop of 4♠J♠5♠, Paul Newey in the big blind and a player in middle position agreed on a bet of 4,000, then both of them checked the A♣ turn.

The 6♠ landed on the river, and Newey led out for 17,500. It didn't take long for his opponent to fold.

Player	Chips	Progress
Paul Newey	310,000 310,000	310,000

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05-09-2024 11:09 UTC+2

Shuffle Up and Deal

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Maxime Taldir

Level 1 : 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante

Button is on Seat 5, and cards are in the air on Day 1c of the $5,300 Mediterranean Poker Party Main Event!

Level: 1

Blinds: 1,000/1,500

Ante: 1,500

05-09-2024 09:37 UTC+2

Third Starting Flight of the MPP Main Event Kicks Off at Noon

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Sava Krink

Day 1c of the $5,300 Mediterranean Poker Party Main Event at the stunning Merit Royal Diamond Hotel in Northern Cyprus kicks off at noon local time today.

This marks the final of three standard starting flights, with an additional Turbo flight scheduled for 9 p.m. tonight. Players can look forward to plenty of time at the tables, kicking off with a hefty stack of 300,000 chips and going through 12 levels, each lasting an hour. Blinds commence at 1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 big blind ante.

In total, 698 entries were recorded across the first two first starting flights, with 172 players advancing to Day 2. Mikhail Zavoloka is at the top of the leaderboard with 3,585,000 in chips followed by "Ali G" with a commanding stack of 3,300,000 chips, closely followed by Mitchell Johnson (3,290,000), and Canada's WSOP bracelet winner Ami Barer (3,060,000).

Overall Top 10 Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Mikhail Zavoloka	Russian Federation	3,585,000	120
2	Ali G	-	3,300,000	110
3	Mitchell Johnson	United Kingdom	3,290,000	110
4	Ami Barer	Canada	3,060,000	102
5	Kalle Parkkinen	Finland	2,870,000	96
6	Georgios Tsouloftas	Cyprus	2,740,000	91
7	Krzysztof Spisak	Poland	2,730,000	91
8	George Panagides	Cyprus	2,700,000	90
9	Ermanno Di Nicola	Italy	2,690,000	90
10	Bernard Larabi	Hungary	2,670,000	89

Now it's time for a fresh group of players to take the stage on Day 1c. Players are permitted one re-entry per flight, and late registration remains open until the conclusion of Level 10. Players who make it through Day 1 will play again on May 10th, aiming to win a part of the $5,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. The final winner will be decided on May 12th.

Keep an eye on PokerNews for live updates from our reporting team, covering all the day's action.

Tags: Ali G Ami Barer Bernard Larabi Ermanno Di Nicola George Panagides Georgios Tsouloftas Kalle Parkkinen Krzysztof Spisak Mikhail Zavoloka Mitchell Johnson