The $2,200 Luxon Pay Grand Final at the 2025 Mediterranean Poker Party has been a huge success. While the prize pool has yet to be officially confirmed, the 1,452 entries made are sure to have shattered the $2,000,000 guarantee. Today, Day 2 will see 247 of them return at noon local time for the penultimate day of the event, where the bubble will be burst as the tournament gets into the business end of things.
Leading the field are Tymofii Savkin and Konstantin Voronin. Both players ended up with 3,415,000 after the 15 levels of Day 1, Voronin doing so at the earliest opportunity of Day 1a, while Savkin obliterated the field on Day 1c. Both players are regulars at the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel Casino & Spa, with multiple cashes from Merit tournaments to their names.
Sitting in third is bracelet winner Lukas Pazma with 3,315,000, while Germany's Lars Kamphues and Serbia's Dmitry Kukhtarev complete the international top five with 3,145,000 and 3,125,000 in chips respectively.
Start of Day 2 Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tymofii Savkin | Ukraine | 3,415,000 | 85 |
| 1 | Konstantin Voronin | Russian Federation | 3,415,000 | 85 |
| 3 | Lukas Pazma | Slovakia | 3,315,000 | |
| 4 | Lars Kamphues | Germany | 3,145,000 | 83 |
| 5 | Dmitry Kukhtarev | Serbia | 3,125,000 | 78 |
| 6 | Bassel Moussa | Lebanon | 3,065,000 | 77 |
| 7 | Boris Smuskevicius | Lithuania | 2,940,000 | 74 |
| 8 | Juan Corral | Morocco | 2,830,000 | 71 |
| 9 | Mihai Niste | Romania | 2,690,000 | 67 |
| 10 | Gabriel Georgia | Romania | 2,640,000 | 66 |
Nadar Kakhmazov (2,565,000) and Alessio Isai (2,285,000) can also count themselves among the big stacks. Triple Crown winner Niall Farrell is in Day 2 with a healthy stack of 1,510,000, closely followed by sole American left Anthony Spinella, who bagged 1,440,000. Andrey Pateychuk (1,045,00) and Marius Kudzmanas (840,000) find themselves in the middle of the pack, while 2023 WSOP Main Event champion Espen Jorstad made it through with a short stack of 255,000.
Day 2 is scheduled to play ten levels, with the blinds restarting in Level 16: 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 big blind ante. The first five levels will last for 40 minutes each, while the latter half of the structure consists of 50-minute levels. Three breaks of 20 minutes each are scheduled throughout the day, and Day 2 is estimated to finish around 8:30 p.m. local time.
The prize pool and payout information will be posted as soon as they are announced, so keep an eye on PokerNews as another exciting day of bubble-bursting poker is ahead in Cyprus.
