$2,200 Luxon Pay Grand Final
Day 2 Started
2025 Mediterranean Poker Party
$2,200 Luxon Pay Grand Final
Day: 2
Event Info
2025 Mediterranean Poker Party
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 2
Buy-in
$2,200
Prize Pool
$2,787,840
Entries
1,452
Level
36
Blinds
2,000,000 / 4,000,000
Ante
4,000,000
Entries
248
Players Left
28
Players Left 1 / 1,452
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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.
Level: 16
Blinds: 20,000/40,000
Ante: 40,000
Level 16
: Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
Play is underway for Day 2 of the $2,200 Grand Final!
Level 16
: Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
Elena Iakovleva open-jammed for 525,000 under the gun. Elie Farah called his short stack of 175,000 off in the hijack, and the players went to showdown heads-up.
Elie Farah: A♥K♦ 
Elena Iakovleva: 9♦9♣
Farah made two pair on the J♣A♠7♠10♦K♥ runout to scoop the pot, chipping up to 11 big blinds.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
450,000
275,000
|
275,000 |
|
350,000
345,000
|
345,000 |
Level 16
: Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
It was a short day at the office for Simeon Naydenov as a brutal river sent him packing early on.
Vadzim Godzdanker opened to 80,000 and Naydenov shoved for around 500,000 behind. When it got back to Godzdanker, he quickly called.
Simeon Naydenov: A♠K♣
Vadzim Godzdanker: 10♥10♠
Naydenov took a huge leap toward survival and making the money when the flop came 2♣K♦4♣, pairing his king. A 3♥ on the turn added an unnecessary wheel draw, but it was just a ten that he needed to avoid on the river.
Godzdanker was already counting out the chips to send over to his opponent, but instead was treated to a delightful river of the 10♣, improving him to a set! Naydenov halted in his tracks and stared at the board for a few seconds to let that reality sink in, then stood up and headed to the exit.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,900,000
531,000
|
531,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
||
Level 16
: Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
Lukas Benkovic raised from under the gun to 80,000 and Hadi Khordbin called from the cutoff.
The action was checked to the river on the 4♦7♠6♣Q♠7♥ board where Benkovic fired out 100,000. Khordbin didn't think for too long before he called.
Benkovic then showed A♦6♦ for a pair of sixes, and Khordbin mucked.
In that hand, there was a dead small blind with the seat having belonged to Ramazan Akyel, who must have busted the hand prior. On the table adjacent, Henrik Brockmann also was seen making his way to the exit, bringing the field a bit closer to the money.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,000,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
|
675,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
Level 16
: Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
The 1,152 entries have amassed a prize pool of $2,787,840, with the top 215 finishers securing themselves a min-cash of $4,000.
Meanwhile, the top four will receive six-figure payouts, with $375,000 being reserved for the eventual champion. The full payout structure is listed below.
| Place | Prize | Place | Prize | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $375,000 | 24-31 | $16,700 | |
| 2 | $250,500 | 32-39 | $14,200 | |
| 3 | $177,000 | 40-47 | $12,000 | |
| 4 | $130,000 | 48-55 | $10,000 | |
| 5 | $95,000 | 56-63 | $8,500 | |
| 6 | $72,000 | 64-71 | $7,300 | |
| 7 | $57,200 | 72-79 | $6,300 | |
| 8 | $46,000 | 80-111 | $5,500 | |
| 9 | $37,540 | 112-143 | $4,800 | |
| 10-12 | $30,000 | 144-175 | $4,300 | |
| 13-15 | $24,000 | 176-215 | $4,000 | |
| 16-23 | $19,800 |
Level 16
: Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
There was a big pot of around 500,000 chips in it on a full board of 5♠J♥3♥A♥4♠ between two of the bigger stacks, Aleksandr Pustovoi and Damir Zhugralin.
Pustovoi checked the river and after some thinking, Zhugralin fired out 350,000 from the cutoff. Pustovoi pondered for a while but eventually decided to lay it down, choosing not to tangle with another big stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,400,000
460,000
|
460,000 |
|
|
2,250,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
