Main Event Day 1c | 2019 Merit Poker Classic

05-08-2019 12:15 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Kacper Pyzara	100,000 100,000	100,000

Paul Newey	100,000 100,000	100,000
Javier Fernandez	100,000 100,000	100,000
[Removed:510]	100,000 100,000	100,000
Ionut Voinea	100,000 100,000	100,000
Georgios Sotiropoulos	100,000 100,000	100,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Martins Adeniya	100,000
Alexander Lakhov	100,000

Hossein Ensan	100,000

Ramez Haddad	100,000
Liviu Ignat	100,000 100,000	100,000

Everyone Folds to Shegay

Shirley Ang

Level 2 : 400/800, 800 ante

Georgios Sotiropoulos raised to 2,000 from under the gun and was called by Viktor Shegay in the cutoff and the players in the blinds.

The flop came , the blinds checked and Sotiropoulos continued with a bet of 4,200. Shegay responded with a raise to 11,000 and everyone folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Georgios Sotiropoulos	150,000 50,000	50,000

Fady Kamar	100,000 100,000	100,000
Viktor Shegay	95,000 5,000	5,000
Dzmitry Urbanovich	78,000 22,000	22,000

Tags: Georgios Sotiropoulos Viktor Shegay

05-08-2019 13:00 UTC+2

Pyzara Has Sixes

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Shirley Ang

Level 2 : 400/800, 800 ante

Ionut Voinea raised to 2,000 from mid-position and was called by Kacper Pyzara and Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy in the blinds.

They all checked through the on the flop to the on the turn. Pyzara bet, Merzhvinskiy raised to 8,500 and only Pyzara ended up making the call before they both checked on the on the river. Pyzara tabled and that was enough to make Merzhvinskiy muck his hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy	140,000 40,000	40,000
Jack O'Neill	140,000 40,000	40,000
Guillaume Diaz	100,000 100,000	100,000
Danut Chisu	100,000
Kacper Pyzara	96,000 4,000	4,000

Mihai Manole	76,000 24,000	24,000
Ionut Voinea	73,000 27,000	27,000

Tags: Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy Ionut Voinea Kacper Pyzara

05-08-2019 13:04 UTC+2

Break

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Shirley Ang

Level 2 : 400/800, 800 ante

With 119 entries showing on the clock, the 111 remaining players have been sent for their first 10-minute break of the day.

Level: 3

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 1,000

05-08-2019 13:24 UTC+2

Recent Chip Counts

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Shirley Ang

Level 3 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kyriakos Papadopoulos	134,000 34,000	34,000

Ramez Haddad	110,000 10,000	10,000
Fady Kamar	110,000 10,000	10,000
Shaul Meir	100,000 100,000	100,000

Milad Oghabian	100,000 100,000	100,000
Ali Reza Fatehi	100,000 100,000	100,000
Aylar Lie	72,000 28,000	28,000

05-08-2019 13:42 UTC+2

Diaz Rivers Two Pair

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Shirley Ang

Level 3 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

The player in the hijack raised to 2,200 and was called by Guillaume Diaz in the big blind.

The flop came , Diaz check-called the 3,000 continuation-bet of his opponent.

They both checked through the on the turn to the on the river. Diaz now bet 9,000 which his opponent called. Diaz tabled for the rivered two pair to pick up the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Guillaume Diaz	147,000 47,000	47,000

Tags: Guillaume Diaz

05-08-2019 13:52 UTC+2

Faces and a Dog in the Field

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Shirley Ang

Photos by Mickey May/partypoker LIVE

05-08-2019 14:04 UTC+2

Savenkov Doubles Niste Up

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Shirley Ang

Level 3 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Aleksey Savenkov raised from the small blind to 3,500 and Mihai Niste three-bet to 10,000 in the big blind which Savenkov called.

The flop came on which they both checked to see the land on the turn. Savenkov bet 16,000 and Niste called.

The on the river completed the board on which Savenkov checked. Niste now shoved for around 64,000 and Savenkov called with for a flush but Niste had the better hand with the for the nut-flush.