828,000
78,000
Table 21Seat 4
2025 Merit Poker Western Series
$3,300 Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2025 Merit Poker Western Series
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 2
Buy-in
$3,300
Prize Pool
$2,183,160
Entries
791
Level
39
Blinds
500,000 / 1,000,000
Ante
1,000,000
Entries
437
Players Left
157
Players Left 1 / 791
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Level 17
: Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
Felipe Ketzer opened from the hijack to 12,000 and Aliaksandr Hirs made it 27,000 from the cutoff. Once it got back to Ketzer, he shoved, and Hirs called for his stack of 133,000.
Aliaksandr Hirs: 9♦9♣ 
Felipe Ketzer: K♣Q♠
Hirs was flipping for a his tournament life and seemed destined to hit the rail after Ketzer paired his queen on the 4♥Q♥A♠ flop. In preparation for his departure, Hirs pushed his stack into the middle of the table for Ketzer to claim, but drilled a set on the 9♠ turn to lock up the pot. A meaningless J♣ dropped on the river and Hirs doubled to around 275,000.
"Not fair," joked Ketzer after the hand.
"You can only do that once," remarked another player at the table.
Hirs quietly pulled his chips back from the middle, proving that sometimes it pays to prepare... but not too much.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
300,000
127,500
|
127,500 |
|
275,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
Level 17
: Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
With a record-setting 791 entries being recorded in the Main Event, a prize pool of $2,183,160 was generated and 103 players will make the money.
A min-cash is worth $4,450, but the top prize of $377,500 is what all the remaining players will have their eyes on! Who will walk away with bags of cash?
| Place | Prize | Place | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $377,500 | 19-21 | $17,985 |
| 2 | $251,000 | 22-24 | $16,020 |
| 3 | $180,300 | 25-26 | $14,055 |
| 4 | $130,200 | 27-35 | $12,305 |
| 5 | $94,600 | 36-44 | $10,560 |
| 6 | $75,900 | 45-53 | $9,030 |
| 7 | $63,200 | 54-62 | $7,505 |
| 8 | $50,500 | 63-71 | $6,630 |
| 9 | $37,950 | 72-80 | $5,760 |
| 10-12 | $28,900 | 81-89 | $5,105 |
| 13-15 | $23,440 | 90-103 | $4,450 |
| 16-18 | $20,170 |
Level 16
: Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 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 17
: Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,350,000
140,000
|
140,000 |
|
1,250,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
|
1,200,000 | |
|
||
|
1,100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
1,100,000
750,000
|
750,000 |
|
1,050,000
155,000
|
155,000 |
|
||
|
1,050,000
343,500
|
343,500 |
|
||
|
1,040,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
|
1,000,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
1,000,000
855,000
|
855,000 |
|
||
|
950,000
750,000
|
750,000 |
|
850,000
657,000
|
657,000 |
|
810,000
535,000
|
535,000 |
|
810,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
755,000
380,000
|
380,000 |
|
750,000
540,000
|
540,000 |
|
700,000
200,000
|
200,000 |
|
700,000
655,500
|
655,500 |
|
630,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
|
630,000
140,000
|
140,000 |
|
||
|
600,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
|
||
|
600,000
420,000
|
420,000 |
Level: 17
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
750,000
75,000
Table 21Seat 4
Level 16
: Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Zhen Chen made it 10,000 to go from the cutoff and Alexander Sokolovsky three-bet from the button to 40,000. Once the blinds folded, Zhen asked, "How much are you playing?". Upon seeing that Sokolovsky had around 900,000, Chen called.
They went to a flop of 6♥8♠10♠ where both checked to the 8♦ turn. Chen led out for 30,000, and Sokolovsky called.
When the A♠ dropped on the river, Chen fired an overbet of 225,000. Sokolovsky thought about it for some time before he eventually called.
Chen then showed a full house with A♥8♥, and Sokolovsky mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,200,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
|
|
||
|
570,000
196,500
|
196,500 |
Level 16
: Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
The players are now on their last 15-minute break of the day. There will be one more level of play before the surviving players bag up their chips and return for Day 3 tomorrow.
Level 16
: Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Ludovic Uzan opened the cutoff to 10,000, which Tamar Kamel and Mircea Flutur called out of the blinds.
The three players checked a board of Q♥5♠K♣3♣9♣ all the way to the river before Uzan bet 35,000. This was enough to get two quick folds from Kamel and Flutur, and the pot went over to Uzan.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
800,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
390,000
247,000
|
247,000 |
|
140,000
52,500
|
52,500 |
