2010 Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic

Main Event
Day: 1b
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Event Info
2010 Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
55
Prize
$415,780
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Entries
181
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 181
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Chip Counts From Around the Room

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Eric Liu us
Eric Liu
54,000
5,000
5,000
Profile photo of Karina Jett us
Karina Jett
48,000
8,000
8,000
Profile photo of Soren Kongsgaard
Soren Kongsgaard
47,000
1,000
1,000
Profile photo of Andrew Feldman gb
Andrew Feldman
45,000
5,000
5,000
Profile photo of Sam Trickett gb
Sam Trickett
42,000
22,000
22,000
Profile photo of Dominik Nitsche de
Dominik Nitsche
35,000
13,000
13,000
WSOP 4X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Ori Miller il
Ori Miller
33,000
3,000
3,000
Profile photo of Jeff Hakim
Jeff Hakim
32,000
2,050
2,050
Profile photo of Antonio Esfandiari us
Antonio Esfandiari
29,000
31,000
31,000
WSOP 3X Winner
WPT 2X Winner
StakeKings
Profile photo of Paul Wolfe
Paul Wolfe
15,400
2,600
2,600
Profile photo of Ben Roberts
Ben Roberts
14,000
16,250
16,250
Profile photo of Perica Bukara cs
Perica Bukara
12,000
4,200
4,200
Profile photo of Jennifer Leigh us
Jennifer Leigh
5,400
100
100

Hakim WIns Three-Way All In

Jeff Hakim
Jeff Hakim

Jeff Hakim has been relatively quiet all day, but his chip stack just juiced itself up on some steroids in the past few moments. Hakim got all in three ways holding pocket aces. He was up against one player holding {A-}{Q-} and the other holding pocket queens -- not a bad spot at all for Hakim to be in.

The case ace flopped and Hakim went on to win the hand, jolting his stack to 58,000 chips.

Tags: Jeff Hakim

Feldman Takes One

The player in the cutoff seat raised to 600 before Andrew Feldman three-bet to 1,800 from the small blind. The player called and the two took a flop of {Q-Clubs}{J-Spades}{2-Hearts}. Feldman fired 1,450 and won the pot to move to 46,000 chips.

Tags: Andrew Feldman

Jett Takin' Off

Karina Jett just forced a player to yell out for a rebuy after her {Q-Spades}{9-Spades} made a full house on the board of {K-Hearts}{Q-Diamonds}{9-Hearts}{2-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}. Her opponent held the {Q-Hearts}{J-Hearts} and all the money went in on the flop. She's now up to 58,000 chips.

Tags: Karina Jett

Hakim Turns Sixty

Jeff Hakim called a bet of 1,500 from an opponent on the flop of {Q-Diamonds}{J-Diamonds}{7-Hearts}. The turn brought the {K-Spades} and both players checked. The river was the {7-Diamonds} and both players checked again.

Hakim bested his opponent's {Q-Spades}{10-Clubs} with his {A-Diamonds}{Q-Clubs} to win the pot and push his stack to 60,000 chips.

Tags: Jeff Hakim

Level: 5

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25

Feldman Can't Get Any Action

We arrived at Andrew Feldman's table and found a pot with over 14,000 in the middle and the board reading {10-Clubs}{8-Clubs}{3-Spades}{7-Clubs}.

Feldman checked, one opponent checked, and Eric Liu checked as well, landing the {5-Clubs} on the river. Once again all three checked, not what Feldman was hoping for. He tabled {6-Clubs}{4-Clubs} for a straight flush, but clearly wished somebody else could have had a club. Eric Liu flashed {3-Hearts}{3-Diamonds} for the flopped set that quickly lost its strength.

Feldman: Up to about 57,000
Liu: Down to about 32,000

Tags: Andrew FeldmanEric Liu

Esfandiari Fighting Back

Antonio Esfandiari
Antonio Esfandiari

A player in early-middle position raised to 650 before Antonio Esfandiari reraised to 1,750. The original raiser made the call. The flop came down {K-Hearts}{7-Hearts}{4-Diamonds} and action checked to Esfandiari. He fired 2,125 and won the pot.

Although it wasn't much, Esfandiari has been on a pretty steep slide since getting up to about 60,000 at one point. He's now back to 28,000 with this pot and things may just be on the up and up.

Tags: Antonio Esfandiari