2024 Merit Poker Western Series

$3,300 Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
2024 Merit Poker Western Series
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
99
Prize
$342,500
Event Info
Buy-in
$3,300
Prize Pool
$1,854,720
Total Entries
672
Level Info
Level
36
Blinds
200,000 / 500,000
Ante
500,000
Players Info - Day 3
Entries
129
Players Left
24
Players Left 1 / 672

Soika Fires a Second Bullet

Level 21 : Blinds 10,000/15,000, 15,000 ante

Ihar Soika raised to 30,000 under the gun as action folded to a short-stacked Yuefan Gu who began tanking in the cutoff. "I swear to you we're not chicken," Ara Melkisetian said to him.

Gu eventually folded while Melkisetian called on the button, as did big blind Carmel Haloon. The flop came 387 and Soika continued for 35,000.

Both opponents called and the K fell on the turn. Soika then bet 155,000. Melkisetian spent around three minutes tanking before he folded.

Haloon, meanwhile, instantly folded a pair of deuces as Soika took the pot.

Tags: Ara MelkisetianCarmel HaloonIhar Soika