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Level: 4
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 1,200
2024 Merit Poker Western Series
$2,200 Warm Up
Day: 1bc
Event Info
2024 Merit Poker Western Series
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1bc
Buy-in
$2,200
Prize Pool
$830,640
Total Entries
446
Level
33
Blinds
200,000 / 400,000
Ante
400,000
Entries
221
Players Left
107
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Level 3
: Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
With around 35,000 in the middle on a flop of 7♥3♠A♦, Vitalii Pankov bet 9,000 from the button before a player in the hijack raised to 25,000. Michel Habib folded in the cutoff, but Pankov called.
Both players checked the 5♠ turn and the hijack also checked the 10♥ river. Pankov then slid forward a tower of chips for a bet of around 70,000, enough to put his opponent all in.
His opponent tanked for nearly two minutes before flipping over the A♠ and tossing his cards into the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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300,000
300,000
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300,000 |
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30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
Level 3
: Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Four-handed to the river with the board showing 6♣J♣4♠5♥10♥, a player in early position bet 10,000 as action went on Mark Smith in the cutoff, who raised to 37,200.
The table folded back around to the early-position player who tanked for more than a minute before calling. Smith then showed 8♥7♦ for the nut straight and his opponent mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
130,000 |
Level 3
: Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Around 35,000 was already in the pot as three players went to a flop of A♠10♣J♦. Bakhos Joumaa then led out for 30,000 in the small blind and only Parahat Nurmuhammedov called in the hijack.
The turn was the 10♠ and Joumaa moved all in for around 28,000. Nurmuhammedov snap-called and turned over J♥10♦ for a full house. Joumaa could only show A♣Q♠ and needed to improve on the river to stay alive.
The J♣ river instead gave Nurmuhammedov a higher full house as he took the pot to send Joumaa off to the exit.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
210,000
80,000
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80,000 |
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Busted |
Level 3
: Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Dogan Gungor on the button, Shuang Luo in early position, and cutoff Fikret Akgul got all their chips in the middle before the flop.
Dogan Gungor: J♥J♠
Fikret Akgul: A♣K♦
Shuang Luo: A♠10♠
The board ran out Q♣8♣4♦2♦5♦ and Gungor's jacks stayed in the lead to earn him the pot. He stood up and snapped a photo of the board as the dealer counted out the stacks. He had 60,800 remaining and tripled up, while Luo handed over another 50,000 to Akgul in the side pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
190,000 | |
|
|
100,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
40,000
60,000
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60,000 |
Level 3
: Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Four players went to the turn on a board of Q♥8♣3♣2♦ when Iurii Saiapin led out for 1,500 in the small blind. Aleksandar Tot then raised to 8,000 in the big blind and Frederico Senno called, while Saiapin and Egor Romaniuk got out of the way.
The river was the 8♦ and Tot led out for another 6,000. Senno removed his card protector and took one last peek at his cards before tossing in the chips to call. Tot then showed Q♣10♥ for two pair and Senno mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
170,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
110,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
|
90,000 | |
|
85,000 |
Level 3
: Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Heads-up on a flop of 2♥7♥K♥, a player who wishes to be known only as John Doe F bet 4,000 from the hijack and Mohammad Nezad called in the cutoff.
The turn came the Q♥ and Doe F checked to Nezad who bet 8,000. Doe F called, then led out for 8,500 on the 9♠ river.
Nezad tanked for several minutes until the clock was eventually called. He decided to commit the chips and Doe F showed J♥J♠ for a flush to win the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
110,000 | |
|
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60,000 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
Level 2
: Blinds 400/800, 800 ante
Players are now on the first 15-minute break of the day as the field creeps toward 100 entries.
Level 2
: Blinds 400/800, 800 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
180,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
|
160,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
|
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|
150,000 | |
|
140,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
110,000 | |
|
110,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
|
|
110,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
90,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
80,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
70,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
