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Level 24
: Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante
2025 Merit Poker Western Series
$3,300 Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
2025 Merit Poker Western Series
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 3
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
157
Players Left
39
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Level 24
: Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante
Philip Joyce opened from the hijack to 60,000 and Mihai Niste made it 230,000 from the small blind. When it got back to Joyce, he put out a four-bet of 385,000. Just as quickly, Miste shoved for around 1,800,000, and Joyce immediately folded.
Level 24
: Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante
Candido Cappiello opened to 60,000 from the hijack with Renars Skanis calling on the button. Mihai Niste squeezed to 290,000 from the big blind, and Cappiell four-bet shoved for 1,250,000. Skanis folded, but Niste called for roughly half his stack.
Candido Cappiello: A♥K♠ 
Mihai Niste: A♦Q♣
Cappiello's Big Slick had Niste dominated. The flop came 6♥7♥8♠ and Cappiello stayed in front. The 9♠ turn offered Niste some chop outs. However, the J♠ wasn't one of them and Cappiello doubled up through Nitse.
Level 24
: Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante
Not so long ago, Nikolay Ponomarev had around 2,000,000 chips, but his stack has dwindled down to around 250,000 after he just lost a flip with Q♣Q♠ against the A♣K♦ of his opponent, who had around 400,000.
Level 24
: Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 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 24
: Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante
There were already around 200,000 chips in the pot on a 2♦6♠Q♥A♠ board when Umberto Ruggeri fired out 85,000 from under the gun. Tamer Kamel then put in a raise to 190,000 from middle position, and Ruggeri called.
When the K♦ dropped on the river, Ruggeri tapped the table and after a short tank, Kamel knuckled back.
Ruggeri then showed a pair of queens with Q♠J♦, but Kamel had turned an ace with A♣3♣ to scoop the pot, which brought his stack to over three million!
Level 24
: Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante
Avrham Harbon was on the button and shoved around 300,000, then Arian Kashani snap-called from the big blind.
Avrham Harbon: QxQx
Arian Kashani: A♦A♥
Harbon was in a world of pain, and it didn't get any better as the J♥7♣6♣7♠K♥ runout meant he was eliminated just after the break,
Level 24
: Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante
Level: 24
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 30,000
Level 23
: Blinds 15,000/25,000, 25,000 ante
