$2,200 Luxon Pay Grand Final Day 2 | 2025 Mediterranean Poker Party

05-08-2025 14:41 UTC+2

Iakovlev Cracks Kopyl's Cowboys

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Frank Visser

Level 19 : Blinds 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante

Dmitrii Kopyl had gotten his 550,000 chips in preflop against Michael Iakovlev and was at risk.

Dmitrii Kopyl: K♠K♦ All in
Michael Iakovlev: A♠Q♠

Iakovlev flopped trips on Q♥5♠Q♦, and Kopyl did not hit a king on the 3♥9♦ runout to set his elimination in stone.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Iakovlev	1,900,000 1,245,000	1,245,000

Dmitrii Kopyl	Busted

Tags: Dmitrii Kopyl Michael Iakovlev

05-08-2025 14:52 UTC+2

Stoika Eliminated After Too Many Outs

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Frank Visser

Level 19 : Blinds 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante

Roman Stoika and Leonid Bozhkov had gotten their chips in preflop blind-on-blind, with Bozhkov's stack of 885,000 being at risk.

Leonid Bozhkov: Q♥Q♣ All in
Roman Stoika: K♦7♦

The 8♦2♦7♥ flop gave Stoika plenty of outs, but neither the 10♠ turn nor the 4♠ river improved him further, doubling up X and leaving Stoika with just over four big blinds, which he lost not much later.

Player	Chips	Progress
Leonid Bozhkov	1,850,000 1,100,000	1,100,000
Roman Stoika	Busted

Tags: Leonid Bozhkov Roman Stoika

Level: 20

Blinds: 50,000/100,000

Ante: 100,000

05-08-2025 14:58 UTC+2

Losev Wins a Monster Pot

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Kai Cocklin

Level 20 : Blinds 50,000/100,000, 100,000 ante

Alexey Losev has just won a monster pot to send his stack sky-rocketing up the leaderboard.

Three players had their stacks in the middle with a pot of around 8,000,000 on the line!

Short Stack: K♠K♦
Middle Stack: Q♠Q♣
Alexey Losev: A♠A♣

It was the ultimate of all coolers with three of the strongest hands in hold'em face up on the table. It was the flop of 6♦Q♦3♠ that broke the heart of Losev, as the middle stack had around 3,500,000 and hit a set to take the lead.

A 2♥ dropped on the turn to leave Losev with one more shot to claim the pot, and he used his one-time wisely as the A♥ rolled off, giving him a higher set!

Losev leapt out of his seat and ran up and down the card room inside the Royal Diamond Hotel, screaming and celebrating in Russian as he took down the gigantic pot!

Player	Chips	Progress
Alexey Losev	9,500,000 7,835,000	7,835,000

Tags: Alexey Losev

05-08-2025 15:11 UTC+2

Level Up Your Game!

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Josh Noy

Level 20 : Blinds 50,000/100,000, 100,000 ante

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05-08-2025 15:11 UTC+2

Georgia Gets Huge Double-Up With Flopped Set

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Frank Visser

Level 20 : Blinds 50,000/100,000, 100,000 ante

The action was caught on a turn of 7♣8♣6♠3♦, where Yevhen Sukhov checked from early position to Gabriel Georgia in the cutoff. The pot amounted to about 1,000,000 when X moved his stack of 2,225,00 in the middle.

Sukhov gave it a lot of thought before eventually calling off with the covering stack.

Gabriel Georgia: 7♠7♥ All in
Yevhen Sukhov: Q♣Q♥

The river came the meaningless 10♥, and Georgia slammed his fist on the table in celebration as he won the large pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gabriel Georgia	5,250,000 2,610,000	2,610,000
Yevhen Sukhov	1,125,000 4,075,000	4,075,000

Tags: Gabriel Georgia Yevhen Sukhov

05-08-2025 15:16 UTC+2

Zhugralin and Farrell Keep Building

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Kai Cocklin

Level 20 : Blinds 50,000/100,000, 100,000 ante

Damir Zhugralin and Niall Farrell are both accumulating chips and just took down a pot each at their respective tables.

Zhugralin made it 350,000 from the small blind and the big blind called to see an A♣9♠A♥ flop. A simple continuation-bet of 125,000 got the job done for Zhugralin as his opponent folded.

A few tables over, Farrell made it 200,000 to go and got a call from the big blind. The flop came 10♣K♠4♥ and the big blind check-called a bet of 100,000 from Farrell.

When the A♠ hit the turn, the big blind checked again and Farrell sized up to 375,000. That was enough to earn him the pot as the big blind folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Niall Farrell	6,200,000 4,690,000	4,690,000

Konstantin Voronin	5,200,000 1,800,000	1,800,000

Damir Zhugralin	3,600,000 350,000	350,000
Alessio Isaia	3,300,000 400,000	400,000

Andrey Pateychuk	1,400,000 355,000	355,000

Tags: Damir Zhugralin Niall Farrell

05-08-2025 15:24 UTC+2

Hoang Gets Rivered to Bust

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Frank Visser

Level 20 : Blinds 50,000/100,000, 100,000 ante

Keith Hoang pushed in his stack of 900,000 preflop and was looked up by Nadar Kakhmazov, who had him slightly covered.

Keith Hoang: Q♠Q♥ All in
Nadar Kakhmazov: A♦J♥

Hoang seemed to be cruising to a double-up after the 4♣3♥9♠ flop and 6♣ turn, but the A♠ hit the river to upgrade Kakhmazov to a higher pair. Hoang was sent to the exit as Kakhmazov nearly doubled up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nadar Kakhmazov	2,355,000 1,155,000	1,155,000

Keith Hoang	Busted

Tags: Keith Hoang Nadar Kakhmazov

05-08-2025 15:29 UTC+2

Shcherbakov Sent Home as Beltran Cleans Table

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Frank Visser

Level 20 : Blinds 50,000/100,000, 100,000 ante

Pablo Beltran had raised from the hijack when Kirill Shcherbakov decided to put his stack of 1,800,000 at risk on the button. It folded back to Beltran, who quickly called.

Kirill Shcherbakov: Q♥10♥ All in
Pablo Beltran: Q♠Q♦

Shcherbakov was in bad shape, but flopped multiple draws on K♥9♥9♦. The 10♦ turn brought him some more outs, but the 9♣ river was not any of them, sending the Day 1d chipleader to the rail.

Beltran, meanwhile, had multiple eliminations to his name and ended up with a stack of roughly double the average.

Player	Chips	Progress
Pablo Beltran	6,450,000 5,090,000	5,090,000
Kirill Shcherbakov	Busted

Tags: Kirill Shcherbakov Pablo Beltran

05-08-2025 15:32 UTC+2

Kukhtarev Adds to His Mountain

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Kai Cocklin

Level 20 : Blinds 50,000/100,000, 100,000 ante

Dmitry Kukhtarev is showing no signs of slowing down as his stack nears 10,000,000 after a hand he just played.

Kukhtarev opened the button to 200,000 and got a call from the small blind to see a flop of 8♥5♣K♣, where the small blind check-called a bet of 250,000.

A 9♥ on the turn went check-check to the 6♠ river, where the small blind tapped the table again. Kukhtarev then prepared a bet of 800,000 and sent it into the pot, and after some thinking, the small blind called.

Kukhtarev waited until the small blind put the full bet amount into the pot before he showed 7♦4♦ for a straight, beating the K♥Q♥ of his opponent.