$3,300 Main Event Day 1a | 2023 Merit Poker Western Series

01-20-2023 14:47 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Mikhail Zamyatin	240,000 60,000	60,000
Daniel Lowery	160,000
Jamie Nixon	135,000 70,000	70,000

Timur Margolin	133,000 24,000	24,000

Michael Lech	125,000 125,000	125,000

La Sengphet	102,000 102,000	102,000
Jeffrey Hubbell	90,000 90,000	90,000

Barsegyan Gets Value

Jeff McMillan

Level 3 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Action came in on the river as the board read . Eduard Barsegyan bet 25,000 into a pot of about 40,000.

His opponent called quickly. Barsegyan tabled the winner and took down the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Eduard Barsegyan	160,000

Tags: Eduard Barsegian

01-20-2023 15:07 UTC+2

Doroshkov Shakes Akimov

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Jeff McMillan

Level 3 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Baurzhan Akimov jammed his short stack from the small blind and was called in the big blind by Vladislav Doroshkov.

Baruzhan Akimov:
Vladislav Doroshkov:

The flop came to put Akimov into the lead.The turn was the to turn the tables and the river came the to bust Akimov.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vladislav Doroshkov	173,000 173,000	173,000
Baurzhan Akimov	Busted

Tags: Baurzhan Akimov Vladislav Doroshkov

01-20-2023 15:27 UTC+2

Bolor-Erdene Gets One Through

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Jeff McMillan

Level 3 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Action was picked up on the river with the board reading, . Chinguun Bolor-Erdene led with a jam all in.

Seref Anar took his time and considered it a while before laying it down and sending the pot across the table.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chinguun Bolor-Erdene	95,000 95,000	95,000
Seref Dursun Anar	46,000 46,000	46,000

Tags: Seref Anar

Level: 4

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 1,000

01-20-2023 15:43 UTC+2

Passet Five-Bet jams

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Jeff McMillan

Level 4 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

There was a flurry of preflop action as La Sengphet opened to 2,500 form early position. Michael Lech flatted on the button. Abraham Passet three-bet to 12,500 out of the big blind. Sengphet then four-bet to 27,000. Lech folded and Passet came over the top with a five-bet jam that had Sengphet covered.

Sengphet went into the tank as she studied her stack and considered it for quite a while. Eventually she laid it down and Passet gathered the pre-flop haul.

Player	Chips	Progress
Abraham Passet	195,000 195,000	195,000
Michael Lech	133,000 8,000	8,000

La Sengphet	98,000 4,000	4,000

Tags: Abraham Passet La Sengphet Michael Lech

01-20-2023 15:57 UTC+2

Sainjargal Flops Boat to Bust Trips

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Jeff McMillan

Level 4 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Amarbayasgalan Sainjargal was seen collecting all of the chips of Konstantin Generalov as the board displayed the damage that had ensued.

Saimjargal had the showing as the winner on a board of while Generalov had the for flopped trips that were no good. He walked away while the Mongolian stacked his new-found chips.