$5,300 High Roller Day 2 | 2023 Merit Poker Western Series

01-27-2023 01:54 UTC+2

Updated Chip Counts Tables 3 and 4

Jeff McMillan

Level 17 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Iulian-Remus Blebea	820,000 90,000	90,000
Giorgii Shkulukhiia	800,000 50,000	50,000
Andrew Hulme	745,000 125,000	125,000
Fausto Tantillo	740,000 310,000	310,000

Dawid Kuliberda	705,000 230,000	230,000
Viktor Ustimov	525,000 290,000	290,000
Toni Kaukua	440,000 25,000	25,000
Alexandr Lakhov	370,000 80,000	80,000
Mikhail Katykhin	275,000 275,000	275,000
Aleksandr Ivanov	260,000 200,000	200,000
Koray Korkmaz	230,000 80,000	80,000
Yusuf Tekin	225,000 80,000	80,000
Mihai Gabriel Niste	140,000 130,000	130,000
[Removed:446]	120,000 25,000	25,000
Eduard Barsegian	120,000 47,000	47,000
Julian Thomas	85,000 14,500	14,500

01-27-2023 01:41 UTC+2

Ilhamur Shows Bluff

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Jeff McMillan

Level 17 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Action was joined on the river as the board showed the . The pot had a large amount of around 400,0000 in it.

Giorgii Shkulukhiia checked under the gun over to Osman Ilhamur on the button who took his time. Shkulukhiia called clock as Ilhamur thought about what action to take. He shoved after the call of clock. Shkulukhiia folded quickly.

Ilhamur tossed open the for the bluff as he raked in the big pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Giorgii Shkulukhiia	850,000 40,000	40,000
Osman Ilhamur	775,000 775,000	775,000

Tags: Giorgii Shkulukhiia Osman Ilhamur

01-27-2023 01:30 UTC+2

Updated Chip Counts Tables 1 and 2

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Jeff McMillan

Level 17 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ran Ilani	1,150,000 240,000	240,000
Recep Aydemir	720,000 40,000	40,000
Uri Reichenstein	640,000 230,000	230,000
Jenya Gavrilovich	630,000 288,000	288,000
Ali Muthana Yassin Al-Kubasi	620,000 105,000	105,000
Ghanim Dashti	510,000 30,000	30,000
Jack Sinclair	245,000 205,000	205,000

Kemal Aslan	240,000 80,500	80,500
Joseph Mouwad	220,000 41,500	41,500
Vladislav Ivanov	210,000 30,000	30,000
Yulian Bogdanov	186,000 186,000	186,000
Roman Kolotiuk	175,000 164,500	164,500
Mustafa Biz	95,000 87,000	87,000
Konstantin Generalov	90,000 6,000	6,000

01-27-2023 01:21 UTC+2

Kaukua Raises Out Niste

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Jeff McMillan

Level 17 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Action was on the flop as it read . Mihai Gabriel Niste bet 14,000 from the hijack. Toni Kaukua check-raised to 42,000 from the small blind.

Niste thought a few moments before he slid his cards into the muck.

Player	Chips	Progress
Toni Kaukua	415,000 145,000	145,000
Mihai Gabriel Niste	270,000 254,000	254,000

Level: 17

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 10,000

01-27-2023 01:06 UTC+2

Cakir Felted

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Jeff McMillan

Level 16 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Murad Cakir moved all in preflop and was called by Giorgii Shkulukhiia after a few moments of thought.

Murad Cakir:
Giorgii Shkulukhiia:

The flop came to make Cakir's prospects look dim. The turn brightened them slightly when the came off but the river officially ended it for Cakir.

Player	Chips	Progress
Giorgii Shkulukhiia	810,000 70,000	70,000
Murad Cakir	Busted

Tags: Giorgii Shkulukhiia Murad Cakir

01-27-2023 00:59 UTC+2

Browne Takes Out Pak

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Jeff McMillan

Level 16 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

The eliminations have started to come at a rapid pace late in the night as there has been a flurry of preflop all ins since the break and another one was occurring with Valeriy Pak at risk.

Valeriy Pak:
Paul Browne: