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

01-21-2023 13:31 UTC+3

Firsau Takes One

Jeff McMillan

Level 1 : Blinds 200/500, 500 ante

On a board of . Anatoly Korochenskiy bet 1,700 from early position and was raised to 4,000 by Vasili Firsau on the button, Korochenskiy called.

The river was the . Both players checked.

Korochenskiy tabled the which was beaten by the of Firsau.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vasili Firsau	113,000 113,000	113,000

Anatoly Korochenskiy	95,000 95,000	95,000

Tags: Anatoly Korochenskiy Vasili Firsau

01-21-2023 13:21 UTC+3

Position	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	Salavat Shafigullin	Russia	511,000
2	Mohamed El-Sayed	Lebanon	496,000
3	Osman Atmaca	Turley	495,000
4	Koray Korkmaz	Turkey	475,000
5	Eduard Bagrov	Armenia	467,000
6	Sergei Sokharev	Russia	459,000
7	Timur Margolin	Israel	429,000
8	Mikahil Zamyatin	Russia	425,000
9	Mehmet Ali Erceylan	Turkey	421,000
10	Abraham Passet	United Kingdom	418,000

Matafonov Raises River

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Jeff McMillan

Level 1 : Blinds 200/500, 500 ante

Action was joined on the river with the board reading . From the small blind, Mikhail Katykhin bet 3,500. He was raised to 15,000 by Denis Matafonov.

Katykhin went into a fairly long tank before ultimately tossing his cards into the muck.

Player	Chips	Progress
Denis Matafonov	109,000 109,000	109,000
Mikhail Katykhin	88,000 88,000	88,000

Tags: Denis Matafonov Mikhail Katykhin

01-21-2023 13:07 UTC+3

Player	Chips	Progress
Vladislav Fedoseev	100,000 100,000	100,000
Valeriy Pak	100,000 100,000	100,000
Tom Cohen	100,000 100,000	100,000
Paul Browne	100,000 100,000	100,000
Lavrentiy Ni	100,000 100,000	100,000
Milen Stafanov	100,000 100,000	100,000

Shuffle Up and Deal

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Jeff McMillan

Level 1 : Blinds 200/500, 500 ante

The cards are in the air on D1y 1b with 40 players at their seats at the start of play.

Level: 1

Blinds: 200/500

Ante: 500

01-21-2023 11:08 UTC+3

Second Day of Merit Poker Western Series Main Event Gets Underway at 12 p.m.

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Jeff McMillan

It is time for Day 1b of the Merit Poker Western Series $3,300 Main Event to get underway at 12 high noon local time here in the Merit Crystal Cove Hotel & Casino on the shimmering shores of North Cyprus. The wild west themed event continues to gallop along in the early stages of the journey.

Today is the second of four starting flights for the $3,300 Main Event, with Day 1b on Saturday, January 21 and Day 1c on Sunday, January 22, and a turbo Day 1d in the evening on Sunday for last-minute entries.

Day 1a drew 215 entries and at the end of the day 106 remained. The high water mark has been set by Salavat Shafigullin who bagged up over five starting stacks with 511,000.

Players get a 100,000 starting stack for their $3,300 entry and reentry is unlimited and available for quite a while as players can jump in all the way until Level 13 which will be on Day 2. All levels are 60 minutes long (except for the Day 1d turbo). Day 1 will include nine levels with a 10-minute break every two levels and no scheduled dinner break as players should be bagged up by ~ 9:40 for a fairly swift day of play.

PokerNews will be on site to report all of the Day 1b developments

Tags: Salavat Shafigullin

$3,300 Main Event

Day 1b Started