There are 14 minutes remaining on the clock, but the tournamen director decided to put it on pause. The 27 players left in the $2,200 Warm Up will play four more hands today.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
Bags are on the tables: Day 3 of the 2023 Merit Retro Series $2,200 Warm Up has concluded. Twenty-five players still have chips and will return for Day 4.
Stay tuned on PokerNews for the chip counts and the recap!
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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8,735,000
635,000
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635,000 |
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6,360,000
3,520,000
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3,520,000 |
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6,150,000
330,000
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330,000 |
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5,975,000
975,000
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975,000 |
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5,390,000
3,540,000
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3,540,000 |
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4,865,000
160,000
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160,000 |
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4,500,000
1,150,000
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1,150,000 |
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4,105,000
1,925,000
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1,925,000 |
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3,385,000
1,215,000
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1,215,000 |
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3,125,000
845,000
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845,000 |
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3,110,000
360,000
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360,000 |
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3,065,000
1,245,000
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1,245,000 |
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2,505,000
580,000
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580,000 |
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2,260,000
850,000
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850,000 |
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2,090,000
2,910,000
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2,910,000 |
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1,895,000
505,000
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505,000 |
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1,740,000
1,810,000
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1,810,000 |
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1,610,000
490,000
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490,000 |
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1,575,000
135,000
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135,000 |
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1,390,000
100,000
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100,000 |
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1,380,000
1,070,000
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1,070,000 |
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1,250,000
650,000
|
650,000 |
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1,240,000
125,000
|
125,000 |
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1,150,000
880,000
|
880,000 |
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985,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
After a long Day 3, there are only 25 players left in the 2023 Merit Poker Retro Series $2,200 Warm-Up at the Merit Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino. They are the last players out of a field of 809 entrants, the last ones who can still win the $264,400 prize that will be offered to the winner.
Thanks to a massive pot win in the last levels, it is Nicolas Chouity who ended the day as the chipleader with 8,735,000 chips. The 2010 EPT Monte-Carlo champion is followed by Afshin Taher (6,360,000) and Or Nezer (6,150,000), the other two players with over six million chips.
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip count | Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nicolas Chouity | Lebanon | 8,735,000 | 87 |
| 2 | Afshin Taheri | Iran | 6,360,000 | 64 |
| 3 | Or Nezer | Israel | 6,150,000 | 62 |
| 4 | Orestis Kanakopoulos | Greece | 5,975,000 | 60 |
| 5 | Bogdan Jontulovic | Serbia | 5,390,000 | 54 |
| 6 | Alain Hajj | Lebanon | 4,865,000 | 49 |
| 7 | Oleg Ustinovich | Russia | 4,500,000 | 45 |
| 8 | Giorgiy Skhulukhiya | Georgia | 4,105,000 | 41 |
| 9 | Hadi Khadra | Lebanon | 3,385,000 | 34 |
| 10 | Mikhail Zamiatin | Russia | 3,125,000 | 31 |
Orestis Kanakopoulos will not be far behind with 5,975,000 chips. In the second position of the chipcount at the beginning of Day 3, Giorgiy Skhulukhiya is also qualified for Day 3, with a stack of 4,105,000 chips. Holding the largest stack in the field just before the bubble, Wael Sarkis didn't keep his stack of 3 million chips. However, he still had half of it at the end of the day and is still in cthe race for victory with 1,575,000 chips.
Finally, in the last positions, WSOP champion Ran Koller bagged 1,380,000 chips, while Ercan Gundogan will come back on Day 4 with the smallest stack of 985,000 chips.
Play will resume at noon local time tomorrow, Friday, August 11th. Blinds will pick up in Level 27, at 50,000-100,000 and a 100,000 big blind ante. Then, Day 4 will continue until a winner is crowned.
PokerNews will follow the action all the way until the end!
| TABLE | SEAT | PLAYER | COUNTRY | CHIP COUNT | BLINDS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Ran Koller | Israel | 1,380,000 | 14 |
| 1 | 2 | Bogdan Jontulovic | Serbia | 5,390,000 | 54 |
| 1 | 3 | Aleksandr Chernikov | Russia | 3,110,000 | 31 |
| 1 | 4 | Alain Hajj | Lebanon | 4,865,000 | 49 |
| 1 | 5 | Huseyin Kaba | Turkey | 1,240,000 | 12 |
| 1 | 6 | Abulmuhsin Aydin | France | 2,090,000 | 21 |
| 1 | 7 | Giorgiy Skhulukhiya | Georgia | 4,105,000 | 41 |
| 1 | 8 | Wael Sarkis | Lebanon | 1,575,000 | 16 |
| 1 | 9 | Vladislav Doroshkov | Russia | 3,065,000 | 31 |
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| 2 | 1 | Oleg Eltsov | Russia | 2,505,000 | 25 |
| 2 | 2 | Oleg Ustinovich | Russia | 4,500,000 | 45 |
| 2 | 3 | Andrey Koks | Estonia | 1,610,000 | 16 |
| 2 | 4 | Hadi Khadra | Lebanon | 3,385,000 | 34 |
| 2 | 5 | Orestis Kanakopoulos | Greece | 5,975,000 | 60 |
| 2 | 6 | Mikhail Zamiatin | Russia | 3,125,000 | 31 |
| 2 | 7 | Afshin Taheri | Iran | 6,360,000 | 64 |
| 2 | 8 | Ran Ilani | Israel | 1,740,000 | 17 |
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| 3 | 1 | Maksim Shornikau | Belarus | 1,250,000 | 13 |
| 3 | 2 | Rudolf Domin | Russia | 1,390,000 | 14 |
| 3 | 3 | Kristaps Vismanis | Latvia | 1,895,000 | 19 |
| 3 | 4 | Murat Cakir | Turkey | 2,260,000 | 23 |
| 3 | 5 | Ercan Gundogan | Turkey | 985,000 | 10 |
| 3 | 6 | Goku | 1,150,000 | 12 | |
| 3 | 7 | Or Nezer | Israel | 6,150,000 | 62 |
| 3 | 8 | Nicolas Chouity | Lebanon | 8,735,000 | 87 |
$2,200 Warmup
Day 3 Completed
