$3,300 Main Event
Day 2 Started
2024 Merit Poker Gatsby Gala Series
$3,300 Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2024 Merit Poker Gatsby Gala Series
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 2
Buy-in
$3,300
Prize Pool
$1,694,640
Entries
614
Level
38
Blinds
400,000 / 800,000
Ante
800,000
Entries
368
Players Left
120
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| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Aleksandr Kirichenko | Russia | 96,500 |
| 1 | 2 | Rustu Gorgunel | Turkey | 70,500 |
| 1 | 3 | Daniyar Aubakirov | Kazakhstan | 539,000 |
| 1 | 4 | Ran Ilani | Israel | 350,000 |
| 1 | 5 | Mikalai Kuzniatsou | Belarus | 169,000 |
| 1 | 6 | Zhao Cheng | China | 254,500 |
| 1 | 7 | Aleksandr Razinkov | Russia | 230,000 |
| 2 | 1 | Israfil Acar | Turkey | 73,500 |
| 2 | 2 | Aleksei Gortikov | Russia | 553,000 |
| 2 | 3 | Tomasz Adam Szczerbinski | Poland | 179,000 |
| 2 | 4 | Grigoli Liklikadze | Georgia | 117,000 |
| 2 | 5 | Andrei Daniliuk | Russia | 117,000 |
| 2 | 6 | Aleksandr Pak | Uzbekistan | 256,000 |
| 2 | 7 | Daniele Grasso | Italy | 290,000 |
| 3 | 1 | Timor Margolin | Israel | 186,000 |
| 3 | 2 | Tommy Kemter | Netherlands | 141,500 |
| 3 | 3 | Robert Heidorn | Germany | 123,000 |
| 3 | 4 | Jenya Gavrilovich | Belarus | 185,000 |
| 3 | 5 | Emin Serkan Cetiner | Turkey | 304,000 |
| 3 | 6 | Simone Pascucci | Italy | 278,000 |
| 3 | 7 | Stanislav Tishkevich | Israel | 137,000 |
| 4 | 1 | Tugce Hursoz | North Cyprus | 339,500 |
| 4 | 2 | Elie Farah | Lebanon | 265,500 |
| 4 | 3 | Giorgii Shkulukhiia | Russia | 319,500 |
| 4 | 4 | Mustafa Timur Ercan | Turkey | 124,000 |
| 4 | 5 | Gihad Hussein Mohamed Ismail | Jordan | 97,500 |
| 4 | 6 | Rachid El-Yaacoubi | Morocco | 115,500 |
| 4 | 7 | Abraham Passet | Israel | 70,500 |
| 5 | 1 | Elena Iakovleva | Russia | 253,000 |
| 5 | 2 | Sevket Tan Muduroglu | Turkey | 47,000 |
| 5 | 3 | Dawid Wiktor Smolka | Poland | 448,000 |
| 5 | 4 | Caner Gunes | Turkey | 61,000 |
| 5 | 5 | Bogdan-Andrei Munteanu | Romania | 141,500 |
| 5 | 6 | Victor Maceo Fryda | France | 270,000 |
| 5 | 7 | Yiannakis Papapetrou | Cyprus | 333,000 |
| 6 | 1 | Yaniv Shushan | Israel | 380,500 |
| 6 | 2 | Asaf Yehiel Groofi | Israel | 84,500 |
| 6 | 3 | Bakhos Joumaa | Lebanon | 126,500 |
| 6 | 4 | Quentin Reaubourg | France | 66,500 |
| 6 | 5 | Chady Ojelli | Lebanon | 223,500 |
| 6 | 6 | Nicolae Daniel Paunescu | Romania | 103,000 |
| 6 | 7 | Mustafa Biz | Turkey | 422,000 |
| 7 | 1 | Adrian Sorel State | Romania | 160,000 |
| 7 | 2 | Dmitry Yurasov | Russia | 531,000 |
| 7 | 3 | Fadi El-Hany | Lebanon | 90,500 |
| 7 | 4 | Dean Joseph Hutchison | United Kingdom | 58,500 |
| 7 | 5 | Cristian Ciurea | Romania | 230,000 |
| 7 | 6 | Benjamin Winsor | United Kingdom | 133,500 |
| 7 | 7 | Denis Kapustin | Russia | 445,500 |
| 8 | 1 | Iurii Saiapin | Russia | 37,500 |
| 8 | 2 | Dori Yacoub | Lebanon | 271,500 |
| 8 | 3 | Emrah Akansu | Turkey | 53,000 |
| 8 | 4 | Maksim Skripkin | Ukraine | 396,000 |
| 8 | 5 | Aleksandr Chernikov | Russia | 285,000 |
| 8 | 6 | Jakub Maciej Michalak | Poland | 83,500 |
| 8 | 7 | Joseph Mouwad | Lebanon | 42,000 |
| 9 | 1 | Senol Ardic | Turkey | 312,000 |
| 9 | 2 | Aylar Lie | Norway | 156,500 |
| 9 | 3 | Antonios Poziadis | Greece | 139,000 |
| 9 | 4 | Radu Pitic | Romania | 100,500 |
| 9 | 5 | Eyal Eshkar | Israel | 160,000 |
| 9 | 6 | Anton Rusev Markov | Bulgaria | 210,000 |
| 9 | 7 | Boris Tabiyev | Kazakhstan | 48,000 |
| 10 | 1 | Shuang Luo | China | 242,500 |
| 10 | 2 | Bassel Moussa | Lebanon | 109,500 |
| 10 | 3 | Dauren Zhaparov | Kazakhstan | 500,000 |
| 10 | 4 | Bogdan Jontulovic | Serbia | 188,000 |
| 10 | 5 | Francisco Javier Perez Moreno | Spain | 148,000 |
| 10 | 6 | [Removed:544] | Austria | 506,000 |
| 10 | 7 | Fredrico Senno | Lebanon | 134,500 |
| 11 | 1 | Gurcan. Gungoren | Turkey | 131,500 |
| 11 | 2 | Sercan Okten | Turkey | 202,500 |
| 11 | 3 | Andrej Tekel | Slovakia | 101,000 |
| 11 | 4 | Malek Abi Nasser | Lebanon | 215,500 |
| 11 | 5 | Alessio Isaia | Italy | 143,000 |
| 11 | 6 | Kianoosh Matin | Iran | 208,500 |
| 11 | 7 | Oshri Lahmani | Israel | 146,000 |
| 12 | 1 | Zhen Chen | China | 95,000 |
| 12 | 2 | Igor Abelmasov | Russia | 286,000 |
| 12 | 3 | Mukhtor Nasiradinov | Russia | 617,000 |
| 12 | 4 | Georges Hanna | Lebanon | 320,000 |
| 12 | 5 | Samuel Dray | France | 143,000 |
| 12 | 6 | Walid Bou Habib | Lebanon | 197,000 |
| 12 | 7 | Ludovic Georges Periaux | France | 97,500 |
| 13 | 1 | Andrei-Sorin Spataru | Romania | 237,000 |
| 13 | 2 | Darius-Valentin Neagoe | Romania | 55,500 |
| 13 | 3 | Luke Kyle Marsh | United Kingdom | 226,500 |
| 13 | 4 | Vladimir Alekseev | Russia | 220,000 |
| 13 | 5 | Yuksel Savsa | Turkey | 157,000 |
| 13 | 6 | Abdulla Al-Emadi | Qatar | 201,000 |
| 13 | 7 | Sandra Cotescu | Romania | 439,000 |
| 14 | 1 | Nemo Koering | France | 85,500 |
| 14 | 2 | George Giorgadze | Georgia | 191,500 |
| 14 | 3 | Hadi Khordbin | Iran | 46,500 |
| 14 | 4 | Seref Dursun Anar | Turkey | 103,500 |
| 14 | 5 | Roman Gadzhiev | Russia | 229,000 |
| 14 | 6 | Ruslan Bakhtiev | Russia | 238,000 |
| 14 | 7 | Bodo Sbrzesny | Germany | 62,500 |
| 15 | 1 | Henrik Brockmann | Netherlands | 433,500 |
| 15 | 2 | Evagoras Evagorou | Cyprus | 234,500 |
| 15 | 3 | Francesco Sansone | Italy | 112,500 |
| 15 | 4 | Felipe Fontoura Ketzer | Brazil | 570,500 |
| 15 | 5 | Amir Hassan | Tunisia | 530,000 |
| 15 | 6 | Ramez Haddad | Lebanon | 148,500 |
| 15 | 7 | Arian Hassankashani | United Kingdom | 437,500 |
| 16 | 1 | Mete Ustuay | Turkey | 65,500 |
| 16 | 2 | Azamat Tulepbergenov | Kazakhstan | 355,500 |
| 16 | 3 | Nichan Khorchidian | Lebanon | 357,500 |
| 16 | 4 | Cihan Abdurrezzak | Turkey | 353,000 |
| 16 | 5 | Oleg Ustinovich | Russia | 390,000 |
| 16 | 6 | Joris Ruijs | Netherlands Antillies | 307,500 |
| 16 | 7 | Sergey Bortsov | Russia | 189,000 |
| 17 | 1 | Kutay Taskin | Turkey | 150,000 |
| 17 | 2 | Maxim Son | Kazakhstan | 335,500 |
| 17 | 3 | Daniel Filipe Pereira Henriques | France | 267,500 |
| 17 | 4 | Pavel Shchitnikov | Russia | 347,500 |
| 17 | 5 | Mateusz Sebastian Wozniak | Poland | 233,000 |
| 17 | 6 | Julien Rouquet | France | 63,000 |
| 17 | 7 | Konstantinos Ioannidis | Greece | 370,000 |
| 18 | 1 | Kirill Shcherbakov | Russia | 645,500 |
| 18 | 2 | Kanan Taherkhani | Iran | 270,000 |
| 18 | 3 | Amjad Nader | Syria | 403,500 |
| 18 | 4 | Mahmut Nedim Sanli | Turkey | 325,500 |
| 18 | 5 | Roman Kolotiuk | Russia | 242,500 |
| 18 | 6 | Aytekin Yayla | North Cyprus | 271,000 |
| 18 | 7 | Georgios Tsouloftas | Cyprus | 459,500 |
| 19 | 1 | Fabio Peluso | Italy | 330,500 |
| 19 | 2 | Lavrentiy Ni | Kazakhstan | 365,000 |
| 19 | 3 | Dmitry Gromov | Russia | 240,000 |
| 19 | 4 | Fahredin Mustafov | Bulgaria | 180,000 |
| 19 | 5 | Traian Costin Stanciu | Romania | 197,000 |
| 19 | 6 | Hasan Basol | Turkey | 341,000 |
| 19 | 7 | Florian Nicolas Guimond | France | 70,000 |
| 20 | 1 | Yahya Oguz. | North Cyprus | 235,000 |
| 20 | 2 | Halil Serdar Tasyurek | Turkey | 61,000 |
| 20 | 3 | Aleksandar Tot | Montenegro | 115,000 |
| 20 | 4 | Hakan Demirci | Turkey | 125,000 |
| 20 | 5 | Dumitru Adrian Pora | Romania | 205,000 |
| 20 | 6 | Zusheng He | China | 99,500 |
| 20 | 7 | Youssef El Khazen | Lebanon | 137,500 |
| 21 | 1 | Danielle Noja | Lebanon | 91,000 |
| 21 | 2 | Alexandru Cinca | Romania | 252,000 |
| 21 | 3 | Maxime Chilaud | France | 85,000 |
| 21 | 4 | Kerem Turuskan | Turkey | 430,000 |
| 21 | 5 | Mehdi Chaoui Roqai | Morocco | 342,500 |
| 21 | 6 | Mehmet Durdu Karsli | Turkey | 199,500 |
| 21 | 7 | Mehmet Muhtar Taysi | Turkey | 328,500 |
| 22 | 1 | Abdelhakim Zoufri | Netherlands Antillies | 309,500 |
| 22 | 2 | Candido Gabriele Cappiello | Italy | 221,000 |
| 22 | 3 | Michel Atallah | Lebanon | 222,000 |
| 22 | 4 | Amir Ali Etemad Saeid | Iran | 138,500 |
| 22 | 5 | Ahmad Rami Naall | Syria | 91,000 |
| 22 | 6 | Jalal Jafari | Iran | 305,000 |
| 22 | 7 | Erdal Gulseven | Turkey | 325,000 |
| 23 | 1 | Jozef Cibicek | Slovenia | 93,500 |
| 23 | 2 | Boris Smuskevicius | Lithuania | 65,000 |
| 23 | 3 | Vytautas Milbutas | Lithuania | 122,000 |
| 23 | 4 | Andrey Litvinov | Russia | 265,000 |
| 23 | 5 | Andreas Christoforou | Cyprus | 375,000 |
| 23 | 6 | Clement Jacky Bonnant | France | 252,500 |
| 23 | 7 | Atilla Saracoglu | Turkey | 205,000 |
| 24 | 1 | Mehmet Muratli | Turkey | 135,000 |
| 24 | 2 | Roberto Sellitto | Italy | 272,500 |
| 24 | 3 | Volodymyr Drokin | Ukraine | 171,000 |
| 24 | 4 | Naji Azar | Lebanon | 218,000 |
| 24 | 5 | Tommy Ardeshir Mokhtari | Sweden | 180,000 |
| 24 | 6 | Sofia Merkulova | Russia | 128,000 |
| 24 | 7 | Razvan Costinel Belea | Romania | 220,000 |
| 25 | 1 | Spyridon Apartoglou | Greece | 452,500 |
| 25 | 2 | Navot Golan | Israel | 196,500 |
| 25 | 3 | Osman Ihlamur | Turkey | 148,500 |
| 25 | 4 | Yassin M. Y. Mahmoud | Jordan | 201,000 |
| 25 | 5 | Marc David Foggin | United Kingdom | 362,000 |
| 25 | 6 | Kaido Mikk | Estonia | 281,500 |
| 25 | 7 | Vladimir Malyarchuk | Kazakhstan | 128,000 |
| 26 | 1 | Majid Majidi | Iran | 133,000 |
| 26 | 2 | Kaspars Butans | Latvia | 250,000 |
| 26 | 3 | Charbel Salloum | Lebanon | 78,000 |
| 26 | 4 | Lachezar Petkov | Slovenia | 53,000 |
| 26 | 5 | Elie Saad | Lebanon | 201,000 |
| 26 | 6 | Justin Frederic Steinbrenner | Germany | 141,000 |
| 26 | 7 | Assyl Tleuzhanov | Kazakhstan | 379,500 |
| 27 | 1 | Andrey Pateychuk | Russia | 460,000 |
| 27 | 2 | Milad Esmaeilzadeh Souderjani | Iran | 65,500 |
| 27 | 3 | Sergey Baranski | Belarus | 131,500 |
| 27 | 4 | Naji Tannoury | Lebanon | 278,000 |
| 27 | 5 | Aleksei Psurtcev | Russia | 123,500 |
| 27 | 6 | Arif Yildirim | Turkey | 262,000 |
| 27 | 7 | Dragoljub Martinovic | Serbia | 232,000 |
| 28 | 1 | Yusuf Romano | Turkey | 257,500 |
| 28 | 2 | Yucheng Xiao | China | 32,500 |
| 28 | 3 | Tuval Zvi Garbi | Israel | 43,000 |
| 28 | 4 | Alfred Nader | Lebanon | 181,000 |
| 28 | 5 | Viktor Iarilov | Russia | 410,000 |
| 28 | 6 | Baris Caliskan | Turkey | 275,500 |
| 28 | 7 | Naryman Yaghmaie | Iran | 230,000 |
| 29 | 1 | Dimitrios Barmpathanasis | Greece | 221,000 |
| 29 | 2 | Damir Zhugralin | Kazakhstan | 80,500 |
| 29 | 3 | Carlos Arturo Cruz Cadavid | Colombia | 177,000 |
| 29 | 4 | Ivan Zhechev | Bulgaria | 250,000 |
| 29 | 5 | Shahin Norouzian | Canada | 165,000 |
| 29 | 6 | Shai Zurr | Israel | 188,500 |
| 29 | 7 | Mikhail Zavoloka | Russia | 667,000 |
| 30 | 1 | Ibrahim Serhat Cetiner | Turkey | 339,500 |
| 30 | 2 | Adria Diaz Dalmau | Spain | 147,500 |
| 30 | 3 | Marian Catalin Cantea | Romania | 107,000 |
| 30 | 4 | Umit Sadi | Turkey | 107,000 |
| 30 | 5 | Jeremy Jean Luc Saderne | France | 135,000 |
| 30 | 6 | Iliyas Mukhamedzhanov | Kazakhstan | 73,000 |
The survivors from all four starting flights of the 2024 Merit Poker Gatsby Gala Series $3,300 Main Event will converge today at noon local time for Day 2 at the Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino.
Late registration and reentries remain open until the end of Level 14, allowing for the field to grow even larger before the final count is set. Once registration closes, the much-awaited prizepool and payouts will be confirmed and posted.
Top Ten Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mikhail Zavoloka | Russia | 667,000 |
| 2 | Kirill Shcherbakov | Russia | 645,500 |
| 3 | Mukhtor Nasiradinov | Russia | 617,000 |
| 4 | Felipe Ketzer | Brazil | 570,500 |
| 5 | Aleksei Gortikov | Russia | 553,000 |
| 6 | Daniyar Aubakirov | Kazakhstan | 539,000 |
| 7 | Dmitry Yurasov | Russia | 531,000 |
| 8 | Amir Hassan | Turkey | 530,000 |
| 9 | [Removed:544] | Austria | 506,000 |
| 10 | Dauren Zhaparov | Kazakhstan | 500,000 |
Leading the charge into Day 2 is Mikhail Zavoloka, who topped the Day 1a field with 667,000 chips, while Kirill Shcherbakov (645,500) and Mukhtor Nasiradinov (617,000) round out the top three overall stacks. Day 1c’s chip leader, Amir Hassan, also brings a strong showing into Day 2 with 530,000 chips after an impressive performance yesterday.
With so many notable players advancing, including decorated champions and emerging talents, the competition promises to be fierce as the field continues its journey toward the prestigious title and the eventual winner is crowned on December 1.
Main Event Schedule
| Date | Day | Start Time |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, November 28 | Day 2 | 12:00 p.m. |
| Friday, November 29 | Day 3 | 12:00 p.m. |
| Saturday, November 30 | Day 4 | 12:00 p.m. |
| Sunday, December 01 | Final Day | 1:00 p.m. |
Stay tuned as PokerNews brings you all the updates, action, and drama from this exciting Main Event!
There is a slight delay to the start of Day 2.
Level: 10
Blinds: 1,000/2,500
Ante: 2,500
Level 10
: Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
Cards are in the air for Day 2 of the $3,300 Main Event!
A reminder that registration remains open until the end of Level 14 so there is plenty of time to take your seat and get involved.
Level 10
: Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
Ludovic Periaux opened from early position and Igor Abelmasov called in the cutoff before big-stacked Mukhtor Nasiradinov made it 16,000 from the button. Periaux folded, but Abelmasov came along.
They saw a flop of 9♦7♠5♠ where Abelmasov checked in flow and Nasiradinov fired out 15,000. Abelmasov called.
A 5♥ on the turn paired the board and again Abelmasov checked it over, then Nasiradinov continued to fire with a bet of 30,000. After thinking for a while, Abelmasov elected to fold, and Nasriadinov got a little richer.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
650,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
|
250,000
36,000
|
36,000 |
|
90,000
7,500
|
7,500 |
Level 10
: Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
Yucheng Xiao shoved from under the gun for 44,000 and received a call from Alfred Nader who had him covered from the hijack.
Yucheng Xiao: A♣K♥ 
Alfred Nader: Q♠J♠
Neither player connected with the 7♣5♥8♥8♣3♣ runout. Xiao was good at showdown with ace-high and he doubled up through Nader.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
135,000
46,000
|
46,000 |
|
94,000
61,500
|
61,500 |
Level 10
: Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
With four players seeing a board of Q♣4♥10♦ and a bit more than 25,000 in the middle, Elie Farah checked from the big blind and Giorgiy Skhulukhiya checked from under the gun. Abraham Passet bet 12,000 from the cutoff, a player on the button called and both Farah and Skhulukhiya opted to fold.
Passet shoved for 39,000 on the 9♠ turn. His one remaining opponent folded and he took the pot without showdown.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
260,000
5,500
|
5,500 |
|
255,000
64,500
|
64,500 |
|
88,000
17,500
|
17,500 |
Level 10
: Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
With around 30,000 chips in the pot on a board of 6♠2♥4♣10♥, Serge Ward in the big blind checked it over to Aleksandr Kirichenko in the under-the-gun position, who bet 8,500. Ward then check-raised to 26,000, and Kirichenko called.
They saw the 2♠ drop on the river and Ward fired out a bigger bet of 40,500. Kirichenko went into the tank and took a lot of time to think it over before he eventually called.
Ward then showed a boat with 10♣2♣, and Kirichenko shook his head and mucked. With just 10,000 chips remaining after the hand, Kirichenko lost the rest of them to Daniyar Aubakirov in the next hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
650,000
111,000
|
111,000 |
|
|
200,000 | |
|
Busted |
