$2,200 Warm Up Day 3 | 2025 Merit Poker Carmen Series

03-16-2025 12:54 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Bart Lybaert	Busted
Joseph Houayek	Busted
Milos Skrbic	Busted
Aliaksandr Hirs	Busted
Vladimir Alekseev	Busted
Rosen Apostolov	Busted
Akin Guven	Busted
Imad Saab	Busted
Anton Danilov	Busted
Sergei Varnaev	Busted
Cedric Schwaederle	Busted
Viktor Aleksandrov	Busted
Nerses Sargsian	Busted
Bekir Tolga Sivritepe	Busted
Iulian-Remus Blebea	Busted

Nashar Bubbles the Warm Up

Kai Cocklin

Level 23 : Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

The bubble has burst before hand-for-hand play could even begin!

Everybody folded until the action got to Hassan Nashar in the small blind, who bumped it up to 90,000 from his stack of around 550,000. Konstantin Kvashin was in the big blind with a stack worth around double, and he shoved. Nashar, not one to shy away from risky situations, called for his tournament life.

Hassan Nashar: Q♦J♣ All in
Konstantin Kvashin: K♥Q♠

Kvashin was well ahead with a dominating hand and got a safe flop when the dealer fanned 7♣10♥2♠. There wasn't much for Nashar to work with and he didn't pick up any extra outs when the 4♦ landed on the turn, which meant he had to find a jack on the river to survive. No jack appeared as the 8♦ rolled off, which meant Nashar was the last person to leave empty-handed.

Player	Chips	Progress
Konstantin Kvashin	1,800,000 1,085,000	1,085,000
Hassan Nashar	Busted

Tags: Hassan Nashar Konstantin Kvashin

03-16-2025 13:17 UTC+2

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Kai Cocklin

Level 23 : Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

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03-16-2025 13:23 UTC+2

Selected Chip Counts

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Kai Cocklin

Level 23 : Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kirill Shcherbakov	2,900,000 1,480,000	1,480,000
Kirill Burtin	2,000,000 175,000	175,000

Danielle Noja	1,400,000 130,000	130,000
Rui Querido Martins	1,300,000 705,000	705,000
Fahredin Mustafov	800,000 120,000	120,000
Nina Krasilnikova	500,000 235,000	235,000
Dmitry Gromov	350,000 195,000	195,000

Level: 24

Blinds: 20,000/40,000

Ante: 40,000

03-16-2025 13:42 UTC+2

Galindo Spins Up a Stack

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Kai Cocklin

Level 24 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Humberto Galindo is on a heater and has boosted his stack up to around 1,300,000 after stacking multiple opponents in a short space of time.

First, Galindo had his stack of 210,000 in the middle and at risk against Vladimir Lipnitskii, who had just 10,000 more.

Humberto Galindo: A♣4♣ All in
Vladimir Lipnitskii: 10♣9♣

A safe board of K♠J♦J♣J♠2♦ saw Galindo double up, and left Lipnitskii super short-stacked.

Moments later, a three-way all-in pot between Andrei Daniliuk, Lipnitskii, and Galindo played out after the former shoved the cutoff for around 400,000, Lipnitskii called, and Galindo put his chips in with a covering stack.

Vladimir Lipnitskii: 4♣3♣ All in
Andrei Daniliuk: A♥8♥ All in
Humberto Galindo: J♥J♠

Galindo was made to sweat a little more on this runout as the flop of 7♥6♠2♥ gave Daniliuk a flush draw to go along with his overcard. However, the 9♣ turn and 2♣ river didn't change anything, and Galindo scored the double knockout.

Just as he was getting comfortable with his new stack, Galindo added yet more chips when a short-stacked player shoved for less than 200,000, and Galindo called.

Opponent: A♣4♠ All in
Humberto Galindo: K♣K♦

The board came 5♥3♠9♥10♦J♦. and just liek that, Galindo's stack grew some more.

Player	Chips	Progress
Humberto Lopes Galindo	1,300,000 1,300,000	1,300,000
Andrei Daniliuk	Busted
Vladimir Lipnitskii	Busted

Tags: Andrei Daniliuk Humberto Galindo Vladimir Lipnitskii

03-16-2025 13:56 UTC+2

Van Gent's Aces Send Michalak Home

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Kai Cocklin

Level 24 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Cornelis Van Gent opened the cutoff to 80,000 and Jakub Michalak launched his stack of around 400,000 into the middle from the big blind. Van Gent snap-called.

Jakub Michalak: A♣10♠ All in
Cornelis Van Gent: A♦A♥

Michalak was in a world of pain and needed to find some backdoor action when the flop fell J♣8♥3♦. A Q♦ did open up some of those backdoor opportunties, but the 4♣ on the river swiftly closed them, ending Michalak's run.

Player	Chips	Progress
Cornelis Van Gent	2,100,000 1,275,000	1,275,000
Jakub Michalak	Busted

Tags: Cornelis Van Gent Jakub Michalak

03-16-2025 14:08 UTC+2

Chisu Calls the Clock on Himself

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Kai Cocklin

Level 24 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Danut Chisu opened to 80,000 from late position and Fadi Zarka three-bet to 300,000 from the blinds. When it got back to Chisu, he called.

Zarka immediately shoved on the K♥3♥3♠ flop for 460,000, which sent Chisu into the tank for quite some time. So much time passed that Chisu called the clock on himself and was given a 30-second countdown. With just a few seconds to go, Chisu called.

Fadi Zarka: J♠J♣ All in
Danut Chisu: 10♠10♥

Chisu, now perhaps regretting his decision to call the clock on himself, had two outs to find with two attempts. However, the 7♠A♣ runout wasn't of any help, and he was left very short-stacked.