$5,300 High Roller Day 3 | 2025 Merit Poker Western Series

01-19-2025 18:36 UTC+2

Demirkol's Stack Continues to Grow

Tim Baker

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

Kirill Shcherbakov shoved from under the gun for 265,000 and Mehmet Demirkol called him from the small blind with the covering stack.

Kirill Shcherbakov: K♣Q♠ All in
Mehmet Demirkol: 9♥9♠

A classic flip that was crucial for Shcherbakov. The board ran out 3♥J♠6♠5♦3♣ and Demirkol won the pot with pocket nines, busting Shcherbakov.

At another table, Nikolay Ponomarev and Michel Molenaar were seen exiting the tournament and were eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mehmet Demirkol	1,450,000 300,000	300,000
Kirill Shcherbakov	Busted
Nikolay Ponomarev	Busted
Michel Molenaar	Busted

Tags: Kirill Shcherbakov Mehmet Demirkol Nikolay Ponomarev

01-19-2025 18:31 UTC+2

Auzoux Busts Thiriat

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Tim Baker

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

Arthur Thiriart raised to 40,000 under the gun before Gregoire Auzoux three-bet to 90,000 from the cutoff. When it got back to Thiriart he shoved for roughly 400,000. Auzoux snap-called.

Arthur Thiriart: 10♠10♥ All in
Gregoire Auzoux: J♠J♥

Auzoux had Thiriart pipped by one and looked likely to be sending him to the rail. A clean runout of 7♥3♦5♥K♥8♠ meant Auzoux's jacks would hold up and all of Thiriart's chips were sent over to him.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gregoire Auzoux	1,400,000 580,000	580,000

Arthur Thiriart	Busted

Tags: Arthur Thiriat Gregoire Auzoux

Level: 20

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 20,000

01-19-2025 18:14 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Edward Quinn	1,300,000 100,000	100,000
Ozgur Arda	1,250,000 100,000	100,000
Mehmet Demirkol	1,150,000 712,000	712,000
Bogdan Jontulovic	950,000 784,000	784,000
Ludovic Uzan	880,000 207,000	207,000
Nemo Israel	880,000 420,000	420,000
Gregoire Auzoux	820,000 380,000	380,000

Paul Runcan	720,000 370,000	370,000
Lyudmil Ivanov	700,000 343,000	343,000

Maher Achour	700,000 110,000	110,000
Mircea Flutur	600,000 180,000	180,000

Motokatsu Uhara	320,000 107,000	107,000
Arthur Thiriat	270,000 112,000	112,000
Hala Karam	250,000 91,000	91,000
Ihar Soika	225,000 31,000	31,000
Nikolay Ponomarev	170,000 21,000	21,000
Alexander Sokolovsky	150,000 123,000	123,000

Break Time

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Tim Baker

Level 19 : Blinds 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

The remaining players are now on a 15-minute break

01-19-2025 18:03 UTC+2

Sposato Bets Every Street

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Tim Baker

Level 19 : Blinds 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Gaspare Sposato raised to 32,000 from early position and Dmitry Gromov defended his big blind.

The flop came down 7♠9♠A♠ and Gromov check-called a bet of 35,000 from Sposato.

The 10♥ dropped on the turn and Gromov check-called another bet from Sposato, this time for 90,000.

When the 7♥ hit the river, Gromov checked, and Sposato fired a bet of 285,000. Gromov folded, and the pot was pushed to Sposato.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gaspare Sposato	850,000 50,000	50,000
Dmitry Gromov	540,000 130,000	130,000

Tags: Gaspare Sposato Dmitry Gromov

01-19-2025 17:46 UTC+2

Quinn Holds On With Just a Pair of Treys

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Tim Baker

Level 19 : Blinds 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

The action was picked up with roughly 350,000 in the middle with the board showing 2♠4♠K♥6♦. Xin Tang bet 245,000 from the small blind into Edward Quinn, who was seated in middle position. Quinn pondered briefly, before carving out the call.

The 6♣ came on the river and Tang opted to check. Quinn instantly checked behind and Tang turned over A♦9♦ for just ace-high. Quinn had that beat with 3♣3♦ for just a pair of treys. With that pot Quinn moved his stack up to over a million.

Player	Chips	Progress
Edward Quinn	1,200,000 748,000	748,000
Xin Tang	420,000 33,000	33,000

Tags: Edward Quinn Xin Tang

01-19-2025 17:37 UTC+2

Arda's Ladies Send Marsh Home

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Tim Baker

Level 19 : Blinds 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Ozgur Arda opened with ha min-raise from the hijack to 24,000 and Luke Marsh three-bet shoved four roughly 300,000 out of the mall blind. Arda snap-called.

Luke Marsh: A♠J♠ All in
Ozgur Arda: Q♣Q♦

Marsh needed to find an ace or some spades to survive. However, the runout of 8♥5♦2♠7♦J♦ kept Arda's ladies ahead the whole way, sending Marsh out of the tournament.