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Level: 18
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
2024 Merit Poker Gatsby Gala Series
$2,200 Warm Up
Day: 2
Event Info
2024 Merit Poker Gatsby Gala Series
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 2
Buy-in
$2,200
Prize Pool
$920,000
Total Entries
463
Level
35
Blinds
250,000 / 500,000
Ante
500,000
Entries
271
Players Left
68
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Level 17
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
Level 17
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
Players are on their final 15-minute break of the night.
Level 17
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
Both Sandra Cotescu and Zhen Chen have chip stacks that sit north of a million, and both just played a small pot together.
Cotescu had raised from early position to 18,000 and Zhen Chen called from the next seat over.
They saw a flop of Q♣A♣9♥, which went check-check to the A♠ turn. Cotescu checked, Chen bet 58,000, and Cotescu quickly folded.
Perhaps they are playing it safe against each other, but those two are among the big stacks in the room as the final break of the night approaches.
Level 17
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
Yevhen Buhaichuk opened from the button and Apostolos Stylianou three-bet to 54,000 from the big blind. Buhaichuk put in a four-bet to 135,000 and after about 30 seconds Stylianou moved all in for 284,000. Buhaichuk asked for a count before calling with a covering stack to put Stylianou at risk.
Apostolos Stylianou: K♦K♣ 
Yevhen Buhaichuk: Q♦Q♣
Both players had premium hands but Stylianou was in front with pocket kings and remained ahead on the 10♦9♠3♣2♠A♠ runout to earn a full double up through Buhaichuk, who just a few hands earlier had run ace-king suited into pocket aces.
Level 17
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
In a preflop confrontation, Gihad Ismail was all in from middle position for 202,000 an up against Yevhen Buhaichuk who had him covered from the big blind.
Gihad Ismail: A♦A♥
Yevhen Buhaichuk: A♣K♣
The board ran out A♠K♠5♠Q♠9♣ giving Ismail top set to double up through Buhaichuk.
Level 17
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
Darius Neagoe's stack is slowly moving in the right direction and he now has over 700,000 thanks to a well-executed river value bet.
The board read K♣4♥K♥9♠5♦ and with around 150,000 in the pot, Andrey Koks checked it over to Neagoe, who made a chunky bet of 115,000. Koks was in the tank for a while and after thinking, he decided to call.
Neagoe then showed A♣9♥, and Koks tapped the table and flashed 8♠8♣ before sending his cards into the muck.
Level 17
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
Hadi Khordbin in the big blind got all of his chips into the middle on a flop of K♣8♥4♥ against the button, which created a pot of around 400,000.
Hadi Khordbin: K♥10♥
Button: 4♦4♠
Khordbin had flopped top pair and a flush draw but was way behind to the set of his opponent. However, that all changed when the 9♥ dropped on the turn, which improved Khordbin to a flush. Only a board-pairing river would send Khordbin out, but instead the A♥ gave him the nuts and a double-up.
Level 17
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
Ruslan Bakhtiev opened to 18,000 from the cutoff and Candido Cappiello three-bet shoved for 48,000 from the small blind. Bakhtiev called with a covering stack to put Cappiello at risk.
Candido Cappiello: A♦5♣
Ruslan Bakhtiev: Q♥J♣
The board ran out 10♥J♥K♦Q♣3♠. Bakhtiev had two pair but Cappiello had made a Broadway straight to double up through Bakhitev, who still holds one of the largest stacks in the room despite the setback.
Level: 17
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 8,000
