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Level 9
: Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
2025 Merit Poker Western Series
$3,300 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2025 Merit Poker Western Series
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1a
Buy-in
$3,300
Prize Pool
$2,183,160
Total Entries
791
Level
39
Blinds
500,000 / 1,000,000
Ante
1,000,000
Entries
182
Players Left
73
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Level: 9
Blinds: 1,000/2,500
Ante: 2,500
Level 8
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
The players are heading on their last 15-minute break of the day.
When they return, one more level will be played before they bag up for the evening, and return for Day 2 on Thursday, January 23.
Level 8
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
The seat that Tom Verbruggen had been sitting in all day is now vacant, and the Dutchman was seen making his way to the exit after an action-packed day on the felt.
On the same table is Antoine Vranken, who may be the chip leader right now with around 600,000. Dawid Smolka is also on seated on that table and has around 400,000 as the day approaches the last break.
Level 8
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Adam Wagner opened the button to 4,500 and Andrey Pateychuk three-bet from the small blind to 20,000. The player in the big blind then made it 54,000, which got a quick fold out of Wagner.
Pateychuk, though, was having none of it and shoved all in, for almost 300,000. The big blind folded instantly, and Pateychuk added to his stack without seeing a flop.
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Table 3Seat 6
Level 8
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
With around 25,000 chips in the pot on a A♦K♦Q♣ flop, both the small blind and Aleksandr Chernikov checked, then Arian Kashani fired out a bet of 10,000 from early position. Stanislaw Grodek folded the cutoff, the small blind called, and Chernikov folded from the big blind.
A J♠ dropped on the turn and after the small blind checked, Kashani managed to forced a fold with a bet on the turn, which earned him the pot.
Level 8
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Johan Guilbert had his last 19,000 in the middle and was called by two players. Both checked it down on the 8♥A♥J♥2♠Q♠ runout where Guilbert's A♠Q♣ was no good against the K♣10♣ of his opponent, who had rivered Broadway.
Level 8
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Level 8
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
The full action was missed but Edward Quinn just doubled up through Jinlong Hu to move his stack to almost half a million.
On a board of Kx9♥J♦J♣Xx, all of the chips were in the middle by the time showdown came around and Hu showed A♠K♥ for top pair. However, Quinn had quads with J♠J♥ to scoop the pot and bring his stack up to around 475,000.
Perhaps Hu is being punished by the poker gods after all.
