2023 Merit Poker Western Series

$3,300 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2023 Merit Poker Western Series

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a10
Prize
$372,800
Event Info
Buy-in
$3,300
Prize Pool
$2,089,320
Entries
757
Level Info
Level
38
Blinds
500,000 / 1,000,000
Ante
1,000,000
Players Info - Day 1a
Entries
215
Players Left
106

Bechor Calls on Scary Board

Level 8 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Action came in on the river with a board showing {2-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}{4-Clubs}{10-Clubs}{7-Clubs} with four clubs on the board. Michele D'Angelo made a bet of 17,000 on the river.

Shmuel Bechor thought for a while before he called. D'Angelo slid over the {q-Spades}{4-Spades} one card at a time, revealing no club while Bechor tabled the {9-Hearts}{8-Hearts} winner with the better pair.

Player Chips Progress
Michele D'Angelo it
Michele D'Angelo
287,000 287,000
Shmuel Bechor il
Shmuel Bechor
97,000 97,000

Tags: Michele D'Angelo

Lowery Takes Another From Golubev

Level 8 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Action was joined at the turn with the board reading {q-Hearts}{k-Diamonds}{4-Hearts}{2-Spades}. Daniel Lowery bet 55,000 into a pot of about 80,000 from the cutoff.

Andrey Golubev was in middle position and folded fairly quickly as Lowery was able to take anotehr pot from him.

Player Chips Progress
Daniel Lowery us
Daniel Lowery
148,000 5,000
Andrey Golubev kz
Andrey Golubev
44,000 -55,000

Tags: Andrey GolubevDaniel Lowery

Level: 8

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 2,000

Akgul Shoves

Level 7 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante

In a blind-on-blind battle the flop came {7-Spades}{9-Hearts}{k-Diamonds}. Baurzhan Akimov bet 4,000 from the small blind and Huseyin Akgul called in the big blind.

The turn came the {9-Spades}. Akgul bet 13,000 which Akimov called.

The river was the {j-Diamonds}. Akgul piled all in. Akimov assessed the chip count before he laid it down.

Player Chips Progress
Huseyin Akgul tr
Huseyin Akgul
170,000 170,000
Baurzhan Akimov kz
Baurzhan Akimov
125,000 125,000

Tags: Baurzhan AkimovHuseyin Akgul

Hashim Busts Lakhov

Level 7 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante

Action was on the river with the board reading {a-Clubs}{j-Spades}{9-Hearts}{6-Spades}{4-Clubs}. Alexander Lakhov was in the tank, thinking about the all in shove from Hashinin Hashim.

After a while Lakhov called and Hashim showed the {a-Spades}{6-Spades} which was the winner as Lakhov frustratedly tossed over the {q-Hearts}{j-Clubs} and was busted.

Player Chips Progress
Hashinin Hashim
Hashinin Hashim
177,000 177,000
Alexander Lakhov ru
Alexander Lakhov
WPT 1X Winner
Busted

Tags: Alexander Lakhov

Level 7 Chip Counts

Level 7 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante
Player Chips Progress
Salavat Shafigullin ru
Salavat Shafigullin
Day 1A Chip Leader
495,000 495,000
Timur Margolin il
Timur Margolin
WSOP 2X Winner
355,000 145,000
Vladislav Doroshkov ru
Vladislav Doroshkov
330,000 157,000
Hossein Zolghadriha ir
Hossein Zolghadriha
325,000 325,000
Ceyhan Tezcani tr
Ceyhan Tezcani
280,000 280,000
Nikolay Fal ru
Nikolay Fal
248,000 248,000
Michael Lech us
Michael Lech
WSOP 1X Winner
190,000 57,000
La Sengphet us
La Sengphet
185,000 8,000
Paul Newey gb
Paul Newey
170,000 170,000
Daniel Lowery us
Daniel Lowery
143,000 -22,000
Alexander Lakhov ru
Alexander Lakhov
WPT 1X Winner
110,000 -94,000
Musa Genc tr
Musa Genc
18,000 -170,000

Level: 7

Blinds: 1,000/1,500

Ante: 1,500