$5,300 Main Event
Day 1c Started
2025 Mediterranean Poker Party
$5,300 Main Event
Day: 1c
Event Info
2025 Mediterranean Poker Party
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1c
Buy-in
$5,300
Prize Pool
$5,740,800
Entries
1,196
Level
34
Blinds
2,000,000 / 4,000,000
Ante
4,000,000
Entries
614
Players Left
334
Players Left 1 / 1,196
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Another day at the 2025 Mediterranean Poker Party means another starting flight of the $5,300 Main Event. Day 1c will begin at noon local time at Merit Royal Diamond Hotel Casino & Spa, being the last regularly structured starting flight of the event. However, two more turbo flights are in store for those unfortunate enough not to make it through Day 1c, with Day 1d starting up at 8 p.m. local time today, and the last-minute Day 1e being scheduled at noon tomorrow, a few hours before Day 2 will commence.
The collected prize money has reached just over half the $5,000,000 guarantee after Day 1a and Day 1b, with 582 entries registered, of which 143 have already punched their ticket to Day 2. Leading the pack is Day 1a chipleader Aren Bezhanyan, being the only person to eclipse 4,000,000 in the counts. The biggest stack on Day 1b, meanwhile, belonged to Dmitry Kataev, although with 3,400,000, he gathered significantly fewer chips than Bezhanyan, who ended Day 1a with 4,250,000.
Day 1a and Day 1b Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aren Bezhanyan | Armenia | 4,245,000 | 142 |
| 2 | Dmitry Kataev | Russian Federation | 3,400,000 | 113 |
| 3 | Viktor Mukhin | Russian Federation | 3,060,000 | 102 |
| 4 | Iurii Okolovich | Russian Federation | 2,945,000 | 98 |
| 5 | Aleksandr Blokhin | Russian Federation | 2,825,000 | 94 |
| 6 | Anatoly Zlotnikov | Russian Federation | 2,785,000 | 93 |
| 7 | Artsiom Lasouski | Belarus | 2,780,000 | 93 |
| 8 | Ivan Govorov | Russian Federation | 2,595,000 | 87 |
| 9 | Nikolai Ivanov | Russian Federation | 2,570,000 | 85 |
| 10 | Roman Timergazin | Russian Federation | 2,360,000 | 79 |
All players who register for Day 1c will receive the starting stack of 300,000 and will have 12 levels of play to try and dethrone Bezhanyan in the counts. The first level will have blinds of 1,000/1,500 (1,500), and there will be ten 40-minute levels of late registration, during which players can make a single reentry.
The latest anyone can join the field is the first hand of Level 11, at which point the starting stack will be worth 15 big blinds, as the levels will increase to 50 minutes. The day will wrap up one level later, with blinds at 10,000/25,000 (25,000). Meanwhile, the turbo flights Day 1d and Day 1e will have 20-minute levels throughout the entire day.
Remaining Main Event Schedule
| Day | Date | Time | Blind Levels |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1c | May 10 | 12:00 p.m. | 40 minutes (10 levels) + 50 minutes (2 levels) |
| Day 1d | May 10 | 9:00 p.m. | 20 minutes |
| Day 1e | May 11 | 12:00 p.m. | 20 minutes |
| Day 2 | May 11 | 6:00 p.m. | 50 minutes |
| Day 3 | May 12 | 12:00 p.m. | 60 minutes |
| Final Day | May 13 | 12:00 p.m. | 60 minutes |
PokerNews will be on the floor to report the entirety of Day 1c, while Day 1d and Day 1e chip counts will be posted before the live coverage will recommence at the start of Day 2. Keep your eyes peeled on this page for exciting poker action as Day 1c is expected to be the biggest starting flight yet.
Level: 1
Blinds: 1,000/1,500
Ante: 1,500
Level 1
: Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante
The clock has already surpassed 100 players as the cards are in the air for Day 1c of the MPP Main Event.
Level 1
: Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante
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Level 1
: Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante
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Level 1
: Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante
An early pot between Marius Kudzmanas and Javier Moya saw the former boost his stack in the opening minutes.
There were already around 40,000 chips in the pot on a K♠4♠5♥ flop when Kudzmanas bet 14,000 from the small blind and Moya called.
An 8♦ on the turn saw Kudzmanas slow down with a check, then Moya fired out 48,000. Kudzmanas took some time before he called. A J♣ hit the river and both players decided to knuckle to showdown.
Kudzmanas revealed Q♥Q♣ for a pair of queens, and that was good for the pot as Moya mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Level 1
: Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante
Jason Barton made a raise to 4,000 in the cutoff, being three-bet to 16,000 by Yuhang Chen on the button. The blinds got out of the way before Barton called to the 2♥Q♦6♦ flop.
Barton checked, Chen continued for 11,000, and Barton raised to 33,000. Chen put in the required chips for a call, and did so as well when Barton put in 55,000 on the 10♦ turn.
The 8♠ river slowed Barton down, as he checked over to Chen. Chen assembled a massive bet of 155,000, most of his stack. Barton did not need long before surrendering his cards and forfeiting the pot to his neighbor.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Level 1
: Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante
Afshin Afsharorumieh limped from under the gun and when it got to Alesia Sinevich on the button, she made it 8,000 to go. Afsharorumieh called to see a flop of 3♦4♦5♠, where both players checked.
A K♦ dropped on the turn and Afsharorumieh check-called a bet of 10,000 and then decided to lead for 16,000 when the Q♦ put a fourth diamond on board. Sinevich didn't need to think for too long before she called.
Afsharorumieh then mucked at showdown, meaning Sinevich claimed the pot without revealing her cards.
Elsewhere, Sandra Cotescu and Katherina Aristotelos just played out a small pot. There was an open from late position and Aristotelos three-bet from the small blind to 10,500. Cotescu cold-called from the big blind, and the initial raiser folded.
Both checked the 6♣7♣Q♣ flop to the 8♥ turn, where Aristotelos checked and Cotescu fired 13,000. That was enough to earn her the pot as Aristotelos folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Level 1
: Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante
Picking up the action on a flop of A♥Q♠5♣, Anatolii Savin checked from the small blind to Leonid Bozhkov in the big blind, who fired a bet of 7,500 into the pot of 31,000.
Savin called to the 8♥ turn, on which both players checked. Savin then led out with a bet of 26,000 on the J♠ river, seeing Bozhkov make a quick fold and taking down the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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