$2,200 IPO Master Day 3 | 2025 Merit Poker Dolce Vita Series

07-31-2025 13:40 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Atilla Saracoglu	Busted
Nejat Erman	Busted
Emad Ghadamian	Busted
Joris Ruijs	Busted
Berc Sindiroglu	Busted
Amir Saeid	Busted
Konstantin Kvashin	Busted
Felipe Ketzer	Busted
Faruh Hydyrov	Busted
Alexandros Kolonias	Busted

Cristinel Dumitru	Busted
Andres Vasquez Fajardo	Busted
Ramez Haddad	Busted
Aleksandr Kirichenko	Busted
Igor Bukowski	Busted
Fadi Nakhoul	Busted
Vadzim Lipauka	Busted
Razvan Sabau	Busted

Selected Counts at First Break

Kai Cocklin

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Ali Moein	2,600,000 1,500,000	1,500,000
Damir Zhugralin	2,200,000 900,000	900,000
Ghassan Khalil	2,100,000 1,560,000	1,560,000
Joan Crespi	1,950,000 870,000	870,000
Dragos-Florin Anton	1,700,000
Dawid Smolka	1,675,000 575,000	575,000
Roman Kolotiuk	1,550,000 270,000	270,000

Antoine Hasbani	1,500,000 700,000	700,000
Maxime Chilaud	1,450,000 475,000	475,000
Alexey Savenkov	1,400,000 75,000	75,000
Abdou Antoun	1,300,000 435,000	435,000
Gerard Carbo Santamaria	1,200,000 350,000	350,000
Kadir Altinbasak	1,150,000 130,000	130,000
Sergey Fedyaev	1,125,000 50,000	50,000
Adem Agoudjil	1,120,000 735,000	735,000
Maciej Toma	1,100,000 10,000	10,000
Bahattin Eser	1,100,000 560,000	560,000
Leonid Orman	1,000,000 445,000	445,000
Konstantin Voronin	900,000 600,000	600,000

Level: 23

Blinds: 15,000/30,000

Ante: 30,000

07-31-2025 13:14 UTC+2

Break Time

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Kai Cocklin

Level 22 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Players are heading on a 20-minute break.

07-31-2025 13:09 UTC+2

Bezhanyan and Yuan Play a Huge Pot

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Kai Cocklin

Level 22 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Cedric Schwaederle recalled the action until the river in a huge pot between Aren Bezhanyan and Yilu Yuan.

There was an open from late position, which Bezhanyan called on the button before Yuan three-bet squeezed from the big blind. Only Bezhanyan called.

They went to a flop of 8♦Q♥7♠, where Yuan continued and Bezhanyan called.

Both checked the J♣ turn to the 2♠ river, where Yuan bet 250,000. Bezhanyan then shoved, which put Yuan to the test for his remaining 355,000. After thinking it over, Yuan eventually tossed in a chip.

Bezhanyan then revealed J♠9♠ for a pair of jacks, but Yuan held A♥J♥ for the same pair of jacks but with a better kicker.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yilu Yuan	1,850,000 950,000	950,000
Aren Bezhanyan	1,700,000 900,000	900,000

Tags: Aren Bezhanyan Yilu Yuan

07-31-2025 12:55 UTC+2

Leantzis and Massimov Both Pick Up Monsters

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Kai Cocklin

Level 22 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Christos Leantzis and Sukhrat Massimov both found themselves with very good hands and got the chips in preflop, but one of them was slightly better.

Christos Leantzis: A♠A♣ All in
Sukhrat Massimov: A♥K♥

Leantzis was the at-risk player, but his aces held strong on the 7♥7♠8♣K♦4♥ runout, which secured him a double-up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Christos Leantzis	600,000 275,000	275,000
Sukhrat Massimov	200,000 260,000	260,000

Tags: Sukhrat Massimov Christos Leantzis

07-31-2025 12:47 UTC+2

Selected Chip Counts

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Kai Cocklin

Level 22 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Georgios Tsouloftas	1,300,000 455,000	455,000
Damir Zhugralin	1,300,000 1,020,000	1,020,000
Dawid Smolka	1,100,000 245,000	245,000
Yilu Yuan	900,000 175,000	175,000
Gerard Carbo Santamaria	850,000 530,000	530,000
Ran Ilani	750,000 390,000	390,000
Boris Smuskevicius	700,000 75,000	75,000
Mihai Niste	675,000 80,000	80,000
Danielle Noja	650,000 195,000	195,000
Kirill Burtin	500,000 125,000	125,000
Hassan Nashar	500,000 50,000	50,000

Ali Rachedi	450,000 120,000	120,000
Xiaosheng Zheng	210,000 475,000	475,000

07-31-2025 12:38 UTC+2

Slimen, Lazar, and Zarghami Chop a Min-Cash

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Kai Cocklin

Level 22 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Three of the players that hit the rail were Ahmed Slimen, Tudor Lazar, and Emad Zarghami, with the latter getting his last 100,000 in preflop against Aren Bezhanyan, who he just lost most of his chips to.

Emad Zarghami: A♣9♣ All in
Aren Bezhanyan: K♥7♥

Zarghami was ahead on the 10x10x2x3x board, but the 7x on the river paired Bezhanyan's seven, which ended Zarghami's run.

All three of the players that were eliminated will split a min-cash of $1,250.

Player	Chips	Progress
Aren Bezhanyan	2,600,000 100,000	100,000
Ahmed Slimen	Busted
Emad Zarghami	Busted
Tudor Lazar	Busted

Tags: Ahmed Slimen Aren Bezhanyan Emad Zarghami Tudor Lazar

07-31-2025 12:34 UTC+2

Ketzer and El-Wely Double on the Bubble

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Kai Cocklin

Level 22 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

During hand-for-hand play, there were no less than five all-in-and-calls.

Felipe Ketzer managed to double up in a hand against Joseph Sabe, where the chips went in preflop to leave Ketzer at risk for his 365,000.

Felipe Ketzer: A♦K♦ All in
Joseph Sabe: K♣J♦

Sabe paired his jack on the 6♦J♣3♦ flop, but had to fade a lot of outs as Ketzer had a flush draw. The 9♥ was a brick, but the 10♦ river kept Ketzer alive.

On another table, Mohamed El-Wely was all-in for 430,000 against Razvan Sabau.

Mohamed El-Wely: A♠K♥ All in
Razvan Sabau: 3♦3♥

El-Wely flopped a straight draw on Q♠10♥9♣ and connected with it on the J♦ turn, which left Sabau drawing dead. A meaningless 4♥ filled out the board, and El-Wely doubled up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mohamed El-Wely	900,000 225,000	225,000
Felipe Ketzer	750,000 220,000	220,000
Joseph Sabe	275,000 350,000	350,000
Razvan Sabau	100,000 800,000	800,000

Tags: Felipe Ketzer Joseph Sabe Mohamed El-Wely Razvan Sabau

07-31-2025 12:19 UTC+2

Bezhanyan Surges to a Huge Stack

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Kai Cocklin

Level 22 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Konstantin Voronin opened from middle position to 40,000 and Aren Bezhanyan called in the cutoff before Emad Zarghami three-bet from the small blind to 190,000. Voronin folded, and Bezhanyan came along.

The flop came 10♣K♥2♦ and Zarghami fired out 130,000, which Bezhanyan called to the 2♥ turn, Again Zarghami bet, this time for 150,000, and Bezhanyan called once again.

An A♣ filled out the board on the river and Zarghami thought for a while before he slid in 355,000, leaving himself around 100,000 behind. Bezhanyan snap-called.

Zarghami revealed two pair with A♦10♥ and seemed confident that he had won the hand, but Bezhanyan slowly revealed Q♦J♦ for Broadway to take the pot.