Four ways to the 
flop, Sergio Aido checked out of the blinds and Ali Jabir made it 1,800 to go in the cutoff. Only Aido called and checked again the 
on the turn. Jabir now bet 3,800 and that was enough to claim the pot uncontested.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
115,000 | 115,000 |
|
95,000 | -5,000 |
Arunas Sapitavicius was spotted with a raise to 2,000 in the cutoff and Georgio Azar then four-bet to 6,100 on the button. The Lithuanian gave it some thought and opted to fold. The same table also features Viacheslav Balaev and Dimitrii Motorov.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
104,000 | 104,000 |
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
|
|
99,500 | 99,500 |
|
95,000 | -5,000 |
While the $5,300 Main Event concurrently takes place, two high-stakes competitions will play down to a winner in the poker room of the five-star Merit Crystal Cove Hotel Casino & Spa in Girne, North Cyprus. The $10,500 High Roller is down to the final nine players out of a field of 107 unique entries and 50-entries and they will be playing for the lion's share of the $1,444,400 prize pool.
Fahredin Mustafov late registered in the first level of Day 3 after finishing runner-up in the $2,200 Warm Up and made it to yet another final table where he is joined by the likes of Boris Kolev, Tobias Duthweiler, and Askar Bekbayev.
Swissman Christophe Panetti leads the final table line-up and was also responsible for bursting the bubble. He held with aces against the 
of Ahadpur Khangah when the businessman got it in with second pair on a king-queen high flop.
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Halil Kezen | Turkey | 2,515,000 | 50 |
| 2 | Boris Kolev | Bulgaria | 1,065,000 | 21 |
| 3 | Timur Ercan | Turkey | 1,275,000 | 26 |
| 4 | Fahredin Mustafov | Bulgaria | 1,000,000 | 20 |
| 5 | Tobias Duthweiler | Germany | 1,385,000 | 28 |
| 6 | James Romero | United States | 2,420,000 | 48 |
| 7 | Askar Bekbayev | Kazakhstan | 1,320,000 | 26 |
| 8 | Christophe Panetti | Switzerland | 2,765,000 | 55 |
| 9 | Iakov Onuchin | Russia | 1,925,000 | 39 |
They will continue with 37 seconds left at blinds of 25,000/50,000 and a big blind ante of 50,000. The final table gets underway at 1pm local time and the action will be streamed on a delay of one hour on the partypoker Twitch and YouTube channels.
Among the players to cash were Roland Rokita, Lachezar Petkov, Anatolii Zyrin and the 2019 WSOP Main Event champion Hossein Ensan, the latter of which bubbled the final table.
| Place | Winner | Country | Prize (in USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $377,115 | ||
| 2 | $265,995 | ||
| 3 | $173,120 | ||
| 4 | $124,075 | ||
| 5 | $93,020 | ||
| 6 | $74,385 | ||
| 7 | $61,820 | ||
| 8 | $49,545 | ||
| 9 | $37,120 | ||
| 10 | Hossein Ensan | Germany | $27,010 |
| 11 | Anatolii Zyrin | Russia | $27,010 |
| 12 | Lachezar Petkov | Bulgaria | $27,010 |
| 13 | Audrius Stakelis | Lithuania | $22,245 |
| 14 | Erdal Gulseven | Turkey | $22,245 |
| 15 | Alexey Losev | Russia | $22,245 |
| 16 | [Removed:324] | United Kingdom | $20,220 |
| 17 | Roland Rokita | Austria | $20,220 |
John Duthie check-raised a flop of 
to 4,500 out of the small blind and was called by Shahram Hatefi to see the 
turn. Duthie now bet 10,500 and earned a call before the 
river was checked by both players. The 510h8h] by Duthie were only the third pair by then but it was enough as Hatefi mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
130,000 | 130,000 |
|
|
65,000 | 65,000 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
A big pot was brewing over on table two when Mustafa Meryumoglu check-raised big on the 
flop and invested three blue chips. He then bet the 
turn for 15,000 and was called by Eduard Norel. On the 
river, Meryumoglu asked the dealer how much the blue chip was worth, which happens to be 5,000! He bet 13,500 and Norel snap-called to get shown 
, which he had beat with the 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
147,000 | 47,000 |
|
53,000 | 53,000 |
The $2,200 Warm Up finalists Matthieu Chan and Mantas Nanartavicius find themselves on the same table again and a whole lot of other notables can already be found seated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
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100,000 | 100,000 |
Day 1a has officially commenced and there are already 96 players registered according to the tournament screens. That number will likely go up quite a bit throughout the nine scheduled levels for today.
Level: 1
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
Sixteen tables are in the draw for Day 1a and many notables are already in their seats. The action is expected to get underway within the next few minutes.
