2024 Merit Poker Western Series

$5,300 High Roller
Day: 1
Event Info

2024 Merit Poker Western Series

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
q5
Prize
$177,500
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,300
Prize Pool
$703,800
Entries
153
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
200,000
Players Info - Day 1
Entries
91
Players Left
59

Tezcan Fills Up on the River

Level 4 : 400/800, 800 ante

Anatoly Nikitin opened to 2,000 from under the gun and received calls from Ceyhan Tezcan in the hijack, Dean Hutchison in the cutoff and Junjie He in the big blind.

The flop came Q93. He checked, Nikitin fired a 2,500 continuation bet, Tezcan called, Hutchison folded and He called.

On the 7 turn He checked, Nikitin checked and Tezcan bet 3,500. He got out of the way while Nikitin made the call.

Nikitin lead out with a 5,000 bet on the Q river only for Tezcan to raise it to 35,000. Nikitin made the call only for Tezcan to show down 99 for nines full of queens to take down a decent pot.

Player Chips Progress
Junjie He cn
Junjie He
125,000 125,000
Ceyhan Tezcan tr
Ceyhan Tezcan
114,200 114,200
Dean Hutchison gb
Dean Hutchison
66,000 66,000
Anatoly Nikitin ru
Anatoly Nikitin
35,000 35,000

Tags: Anatoly NikitinCeyhan TezcanDean HutchisonJunjie He