Main Event Day 3 | 2019 Merit Poker Classic

05-10-2019 12:50 UTC+3

Darie Eliminates Iglesias

Shirley Ang

Level 15 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Vlad Darie has just eliminated Miguel Iglesias when his held against the of Iglesias.

Over on the other tables, Maria Lampropulos, Nikolay Fal, and Vytautas Milbutas were also eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vlad Darie	1,405,000 465,000	465,000

Vlada Stojanovic	653,000 -15,000	-15,000
Abdelhakim Zoufri	182,000 18,000	18,000
Miguel Iglesias	Busted
Maria Lampropulos	Busted
Nikolay Fal	Busted
Vytautas Milbutas	Busted

Tags: Maria Lampropulos Miguel Iglesias Nikolay Fal Vlad Darie Vytautas Milbutas

05-10-2019 12:59 UTC+3

Meir Hits the River

Shirley Ang

Level 15 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

The board read with around 160,000 in the middle already.

Shaul Meir had bet 101,000 from middle position and Timur Khamidullin was in the tank. After a while, Khamidullin decided to make the call but then mucked when he saw Meir held for the rivered trip deuces.

Player	Chips	Progress
Shaul Meir	1,140,000 134,000	134,000

Timur Khamidullin	300,000 -260,000	-260,000

Tags: Shaul Meir Timur Khamidullin

05-10-2019 13:02 UTC+3

Lykov Lobbed Out by Khamidullin

Shirley Ang

Level 15 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Timur Khamidullin raised to 16,000 from the hijack and Maxim Lykov shoved from the small blind. Khamidullin asked for a count and the dealer confirmed Lykov had 177,000 behind. Khamidullin made the call for the cards to go on their backs.

Maxim Lykov:
Timur Khamidullin:

The board ran out for Lykov to not get any help of the board as he was sent to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Timur Khamidullin	490,000 190,000	190,000
Maxim Lykov	Busted

Tags: Maxim Lykov Timur Khamidullin

05-10-2019 13:13 UTC+3

First Batch of Pictures

Shirley Ang

Photos by Mickey May/partypoker LIVE

Level: 16

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 10,000

05-10-2019 13:24 UTC+3

Latest Eliminations

Shirley Ang

Level 16 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Giorgii Skhulukhiya	Busted
Naji Tanuri	Busted
Vlada Stojanovic	Busted
Maksim Bukreev	Busted
Charbel Salloum	Busted
Han Yong Kuo	Busted
Qushqar Morad	Busted
Aleksandar Trajkovski	Busted
Andrey Kaygorodtsev	Busted
Amir Touma	Busted

05-10-2019 13:27 UTC+3

Recent Chip Counts

Shirley Ang

Level 16 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Albert Daher	1,160,000 727,500	727,500
Dragos Trofimov	630,000 -184,000	-184,000
Anatoly Filatov	610,000 517,000	517,000
Ludovic Geilich	400,000 -335,000	-335,000

Ryan Riess	350,000 -19,000	-19,000

Andrei Boghean	320,000 -207,000	-207,000
Markus Prinz	130,000 -220,000	-220,000

05-10-2019 13:41 UTC+3

Hallaert and Darie Building Stacks

Shirley Ang

Level 16 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Kenny Hallaert was down to his last 40,000 about an hour ago but has made a comeback and is playing a stack of almost a million now.

Vlad Darie is the first player to break the two million mark and was kind enough to tell the live reporting team what had happened:

Darie raised from under the gun to 18,000 in the previous level and was called by the player in the cutoff. The player on the button three-bet to 76,000 and action folded back to Darie who four-bet to 188,000. The cutoff player folded and the button called.

The flop came rainbow on which they both checked.

The turn was an , Darie continued with a bet of 115,000 which his opponent called.

The river completed the board with another to pair the board up. Darie now put his opponent all-in for his last 350,000 or so and his opponent called with for the full house, jacks over fours. Darie had him beat though as he held for the higher full house.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vlad Darie	2,040,000 635,000	635,000

Shaul Meir	1,320,000 180,000	180,000

Kenny Hallaert	960,000 843,500	843,500
Manig Loeser	712,000 138,000	138,000

Tags: Kenny Hallaert Vlad Darie

05-10-2019 13:55 UTC+3

More Eliminations

Shirley Ang

Level 16 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Aristeidis Moschonas	Busted
Georges Hanna	Busted
Christian Rudolph	Busted
Denis Timofeev	Busted
Omer Cubukcu	Busted
Markus Prinz	Busted
Freek Scholten	Busted
Joseph Sabe	Busted
Ran Ilani	Busted

05-10-2019 14:08 UTC+3

Van Zadelhoff Eliminated by Suvorov

Shirley Ang

Level 16 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Anatoly Suvorov raised to 20,000 from the cutoff and Sergey Baburin three-bet to 300,000 in the small blind. Steven van Zadelhoff shoved his last seventeen big blind in from the big blind and Suvorov decided to also shove for 299,000 in total. Baburin made the call.

Steven van Zadelhoff:
Anatoly Suvorov:
Sergey Baburin: