2019 Merit Poker Classic

Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2019 Merit Poker Classic

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k10
Prize
$565,157
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,300
Prize Pool
$2,990,267
Entries
649
Level Info
Level
35
Blinds
400,000 / 800,000
Ante
800,000

Level: 17

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 12,000

Break

Level 16 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

The 99 remaining players have just been sent for their first 15-minute break of the day.

Player Chips Progress
Vlad Darie ro
Vlad Darie
WPT 1X Winner
2,215,000 175,000
Kacper Pyzara pl
Kacper Pyzara
Day 1E Chip Leader
2,100,000 1,550,500
Andreas Christoforou cy
Andreas Christoforou
1,670,000 495,000
Basil Yaiche fr
Basil Yaiche
1,550,000 931,000
John Two nl
John Two
1,550,000 251,000
Dragos Trofimov md
Dragos Trofimov
855,000 225,000
John Three il
John Three
800,000 -89,000
Nariman Yaghmai ir
Nariman Yaghmai
700,000 -6,500
Vicent Bosca es
Vicent Bosca
680,000 471,000

Recent Chip Counts

Level 16 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
Player Chips Progress
Sergey Baburin ru
Sergey Baburin
Day 2 Chip Leader
1,350,000 35,000
Anatoly Filatov ru
Anatoly Filatov
1,190,000 580,000
Bassel Alanaz lb
Bassel Alanaz
870,000 293,000
Vanush Mnatsakyan ru
Vanush Mnatsakyan
720,000 171,000
Stoyan Obreshkov bg
Stoyan Obreshkov
620,000 448,000
Joep Raemaekers nl
Joep Raemaekers
435,000 285,000
Vladimir Troyanovskiy ru
Vladimir Troyanovskiy
360,000 -130,500
Milad Oghabian ir
Milad Oghabian
258,000 9,500
Dmitry Gromov ru
Dmitry Gromov
WPT 1X Winner
250,000 -273,500
Dimitar Danchev bg
Dimitar Danchev
EPT Main Event Champion
WSOP 1X Winner
EPT 1X Winner
173,000 12,000
Saar Wilf il
Saar Wilf
74,000 -295,000
James Romero us
James Romero
WPT 1X Winner
Busted
Arnaud Enselme fr
Arnaud Enselme
Busted
Fady Kamar lb
Fady Kamar
Busted

Van Zadelhoff Eliminated by Suvorov

Level 16 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
Steven van Zadelhoff
Steven van Zadelhoff

Anatoly Suvorov raised to 20,000 from the cutoff and Sergey Baburin three-bet to 300,000 in the small blind. Steven van Zadelhoff shoved his last seventeen big blind in from the big blind and Suvorov decided to also shove for 299,000 in total. Baburin made the call.

Steven van Zadelhoff: {k-Clubs}{k-Diamonds}
Anatoly Suvorov: {a-Spades}{k-Spades}
Sergey Baburin: {8-Spades}{8-Diamonds}

The board ran out {q-Spades}{3-Spades}{3-Clubs}{4-Spades}{10-Clubs} for Suvorov to turn the nut-flush to almost triple up and eliminate Van Zadelhoff.

Player Chips Progress
Sergey Baburin ru
Sergey Baburin
Day 2 Chip Leader
1,315,000 -258,000
Anatoly Suvorov ru
Anatoly Suvorov
788,000 88,000
Steven van Zadelhoff nl
Steven van Zadelhoff
Busted

Tags: Sergey BaburinSteven van Zadelhoff

Hallaert and Darie Building Stacks

Level 16 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
Vlad Darie
Vlad Darie

Kenny Hallaert was down to his last 40,000 about an hour ago but has made a comeback and is playing a stack of almost a million now.

Vlad Darie is the first player to break the two million mark and was kind enough to tell the live reporting team what had happened:

Darie raised from under the gun to 18,000 in the previous level and was called by the player in the cutoff. The player on the button three-bet to 76,000 and action folded back to Darie who four-bet to 188,000. The cutoff player folded and the button called.

The flop came {a-}{3-}{4-} rainbow on which they both checked.

The turn was an {j-}, Darie continued with a bet of 115,000 which his opponent called.

The river completed the board with another {4-} to pair the board up. Darie now put his opponent all-in for his last 350,000 or so and his opponent called with {j-}{j-} for the full house, jacks over fours. Darie had him beat though as he held {a-}{a-} for the higher full house.

Player Chips Progress
Vlad Darie ro
Vlad Darie
WPT 1X Winner
2,040,000 635,000
Shaul Meir il
Shaul Meir
Day 1D Chip Leader
1,320,000 180,000
Kenny Hallaert be
Kenny Hallaert
960,000 843,500
Manig Loeser de
Manig Loeser
WSOP 2X Winner
EPT 1X Winner
712,000 138,000

Tags: Kenny HallaertVlad Darie