Level: 18
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 8,000
2025 Merit Poker Western Series
$2,200 Warm Up
Day: 2
Event Info
2025 Merit Poker Western Series
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 2
Buy-in
$2,200
Prize Pool
$921,840
Entries
501
Level
35
Blinds
250,000 / 500,000
Ante
500,000
Entries
375
Players Left
38
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Level 18
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
Aliaksandr Hirs and Felipe Ketzer are sitting at the same table and just tangled in a pot that went Hirs' way.
With around 60,000 already in the middle on a J♥6♦3♠ flop, Ketzer bet 13,000 and Hirs made it 30,000 on the button. Ketzer called.
A 2♠ dropped on the turn and Hirs sized up with a bet of 76,000, which after some consideration, got Ketzer to fold.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
460,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
400,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Level 18
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
Charbel Salloum committed the last of his chips into the middle preflop with Xiaosheng Zheng being the player trying to send him home.
Charbel Salloum: A♦K♥ 
Xiaosheng Zheng: A♣A♥
Salloum was on the unfortunate end of a cooler and needed a lot of help from the dealer to stay alive in the tournament. The board ran out 6♠5♥7♥K♦2♠, which kept Zheng's aces ahead the whole way, sending Salloum to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
700,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
Busted |
Level 18
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,300,000
400,000
|
400,000 |
|
1,025,000
125,000
|
125,000 |
|
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|
800,000
280,000
|
280,000 |
|
||
|
800,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
750,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
730,000
330,000
|
330,000 |
|
|
725,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
575,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
550,000
550,000
|
550,000 |
|
500,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
450,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
|
||
|
370,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
200,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
|
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|
200,000
200,000
|
200,000 |
|
200,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
Level 18
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
Ghassan Al-Barwani moved all in from early position for 99,000 with only Aylar Lie making the call from the button to try and bust him.
Ghassan Al-Barwani: J♣9♥
Aylar Lie: A♣Q♣
Al-Barwani was behind and needed to find some help to stay alive. He found it on the 10♣9♣8♥ flop as he took the lead with a pair of nines. The 2♦ turn didn't change anything, as the 4♥ came on the river and Al-Barwani doubled up through Lie again.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
215,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
35,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
Level 18
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
Last January at the 2024 Merit Poker Western Series, France's Mohamed Mokrani was crowned champion of the $3,300 Main Event, outlasting the 672-entry field and defeating Nichan Khorchidian in a brief heads-up duel to take home the title and top prize of $342,500. The $1,500,000 guarantee was easily eclipsed, with the final prize pool confirmed at $1,854,720.
Mokrani started the final day as the fifth-largest stack and went mostly under the radar before a late-night surge catapulted him ahead of perennial chip leaders Felipe Ketzer and Khorchidian during three-handed play. Mokrani only had $15,211 in recorded lifetime tournament earnings prior to this event, and the win was nearly forty times greater than his previous-best cash of $8,124.
2024 Western Series $3,300 Main Event Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mohamed Mokrani | France | $342,500 |
| 2 | Nichan Khorchidian | Lebanon | $252,500 |
| 3 | Felipe Ketzer | Brazil | $155,000 |
| 4 | Christophe Panetti | Switzerland | $114,400 |
| 5 | Damir Zhugralin | Kazakhstan | $85,700 |
| 6 | Mustafa Ercan | Turkey | $69,100 |
| 7 | Antoine Hasbani | Lebanon | $57,300 |
| 8 | Samy Barka | France | $45,600 |
| 9 | Hadi Khordbin | Iran | $34,300 |
Level 18
: Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
Players are now heading on a 45-minute dinner break.
Play will resume at around 7:25 p.m.
Level: 19
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
Level 19
: Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,300,000
600,000
|
600,000 |
|
1,050,000
814,000
|
814,000 |
|
800,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
|
725,000
475,000
|
475,000 |
|
|
600,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
500,000
350,000
|
350,000 |
|
400,000
243,000
|
243,000 |
Level 19
: Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
Evgeniy Golenko opened the button to 20,000 and Dumitru Pora shoved from the small blind for around 200,000. When it got back to Golenko, he thought for a moment before he flicked in the call.
Dumitru Pora: A♥Q♥
Evgeniy Golenko: 9♥9♦
It was a classic coinflip and Golenko kept his lead after the 8♠10♥6♦ flop, which also improved him to a gutshot straight draw. A 7♣ on the turn completed his draw, which left Pora drawing to a chop. The J♦ river wasn't the nine he needed, and Pora was eliminated just after dinner.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
650,000
516,000
|
516,000 |
|
|
Busted |
