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Level: 13
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 400
2010 Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic
High Roller Freeze-Out
Day: 2
Event Info
2010 Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$25,000
Prize Pool
$873,000
Total Entries
36
Level
25
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 36
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The players are now on a ten-minute break with one table left to go.
Here are the seating assignments and chip counts for the final table.
Seat 1: Ziv Caspi - 140,000
Seat 2: David Benyamine - 475,000
Seat 3: John Dolan - 425,000
Seat 4: Perica Bukara - 885,000
Seat 5: Andrew Feldman - 312,000
Seat 6: Sam Trickett - 80,000
Seat 7: Ori Miller - 400,000
Seat 8: Huseyin Yilmaz - 90,000
Seat 9: Jon Turner - 265,000
Seat 10: Carter Phillips - 430,000
Tafyun Rodoplu's stack of about 200,000 has vanished in two quick hands.
On the first hand, the board read 
. Rodoplu got it all in with 
against Ori Miller's 
. The river was the 
and after the nearly identical stacks were counted out, Ropudlu was left with just 5,400 while Miller jumped to about 390,000.
The next hand, Huseyin Yilmaz raised from under the gun and Ropudlu called all in from the small blind.
Ropudlu: 
Yilmaz: 
The board came down 
, pairing Yilmaz and ending Ropudlu's tournament.
Ori Miller and John Dolan opted to tangle with each other once again. This time it was Miller who kicked off the action with a preflop raise to 8,500 from the cutoff seat. Dolan was the one three-betting and he made it 24,500 to go from the small blind. Miller four-bet to 55,000 and then Dolan moved all in. Miller mucked his hand and Dolan was able to take some more chips off of him.
Dolan moved up to just under half a million in chips while Miller slipped below 200,000.
John Dolan is still alive in the $25,000 High Roller Freeze-Out and raised to 7,400 from under the gun. Ori Miller reraised to 21,000 from the small blind and got a call from Dolan.
The flop came down 
and Miller checked. Dolan fired 22,500 and Miller raised to 62,500, 40,000 more. Dolan made the call.
The turn card was the 
and this is where the hand ended. Miller checked and then folded to a bet of 55,500 from Dolan, who moved his way up to 435,000 chips. Miller dropped back to 280,000.
Kfir Yamin just stopped by to check in on the action and after he did so, he came over to the media desk and told us to write that he misses the table. Clearly it's never fun to bust out of a tournament, nevermind a $25,000 one. There's plenty of side-game action going on in the room for Yamin to stay busy and then the main event kicks off tomorrow. It's 2:30 am here and that's less than 12 hours away now.
Right now, the plan is to finish out the last 20 minutes or so of this level, take a break and then return for one more 75-minute level of play. The tournament staff hasn't set anything in stone though and will let the players decide if they want to keep playing tonight or not. There have been discussions of playing down until a final table is reached. There have also been talks about maybe playing all the way down until we hit the final five and are in the money. If the latter of those two happen, we may be here until the start of the Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event tomorrow at 2:00 pm.
As of right now, the average stack is still a bit over 100 big blinds deep. After the level increases, that average will still be over 80 big blinds deep. What's that mean? Well, it's going to be a long night.
On the river, the board read 
between Perica Bukara and Sam Trickett. Bukara fired a big raise to Trickett's bet and forced a fold. Bukara then showed the 
, having flopped top pair and went turn and river for a club flush. He's now up to a booming 710,000 chips while Trickett is now between the century mark with 82,000.
