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. Aboukhalil showed 
and the game was afoot.Board:
Each player made a pair, but Aboukhalil's pair of aces was best. He dragged the pot and doubled to 63,000.
2009 WPT Merit Cyprus Classic
WPT Merit Cyprus Classic Championship
Day: 3
Event Info
2009 WPT Merit Cyprus Classic
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Total Entries
181
Level
25
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 181
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. Aboukhalil showed and the game was afoot.Board:
Each player made a pair, but Aboukhalil's pair of aces was best. He dragged the pot and doubled to 63,000.
then saw opponent John Monnette raise to 100,000, enough to put Bichon all in. Bichon took a deep breath at the end of the five minutes and called all in for 86,500 total. His 
pair of queens was in the lead but needed to duck Monnette's flush draw, 
. Things were even more interesting after the turn fell 
to give Monnette a straight draw as well, but everything missed when the river paired kings, 
.
Flack's stack just got a big boost in the arm thanks to Nenad Medic. With 72,000 chips in the middle, Flack bet 43,000 on a board of
. Medic announced a raise, put 43,000 over the betting line, and then added another 113,000. Flack took thirty seconds, taking off his sunglasses and setting them on the table. Then he matched Medic's bet."Two pair," said Medic, has voice rising questioningly at the end. That prompted Flack to turn over two pair of his own,
, to drag the pot. Medic did not look pleased."I thought you were asking me," said Flack. "I was like... yeah, two pair. I was really only worried about ace-queen. I didn't think you had king-ten."
"I thought it was king-ten of clubs," piped up Dan Harrington.
against Aleh Plauski's 
, a short-stacked Thomas Bichon would need a little bit of luck to stay alive, and he got just that...Bichon picked up eight outs to make a straight after the flop came
, and he'd get there on the turn when the 
peeled off. Though the scales had tipped in Bichon's favor, Plauski still had outs for a flush, but missed when the board paired on the river ().After the hand, Bichon stacked up 104,000 in chips while Plauski fell to 165,000.
Table 1
Seat 1: Dan Harrington
Seat 2: Nenad Medic
Seat 3: Steven Fung
Seat 4: Wahab Shlomo
Seat 5: Layne Flack
Seat 6: Zorlu Menderes
Seat 7: Kelly Kim
Seat 8: Rony Jazzar
Seat 9: Yosh Nakano
Table 2
Seat 1: Thomas Bichon
Seat 2: John Monnette
Seat 3: Roy Winston
Seat 4: Aleh Plauski
Seat 5: Joseph El Khoury
Seat 6: Jonathan Little
Seat 7: Anthony Aboukhalil
Seat 8: Uri Keidar
Seat 9: Antony Lellouche
Table 4
Seat 1: John Lestina
Seat 2: Ahmet Arpa
Seat 3: Huck Seed
Seat 4: Engin Sancalctaroglu
Seat 5: Sefik "Rob" Peltekci
Seat 6: Rep Porter
Seat 7: Homan Houshiar
Seat 8: Tommy Vedes
Seat 9: Janar Kiivramees
Out on the floor, we noticed Nenad Medic stacking up more chips, and he let us know he'd just busted Sorel Mizzi from the main event. In Medic's words, "Tommy (Vedes) raised, Sorel reraised and I woke up with aces."
After the hand, Medic stacked up 555,000 in chips.
Heads up then, the flop came out
, and both players checked. The turn brought the action with the . Menderes checked it over, and Medic fired 40,500 chips at the pot. He watched carefully as his opponent stacked out the call plus a raise in two separate stacks, but Menderes eventually decided to push only the calling stack across the line.The last card off the deck was the
, and Menderes slowly checked again. Medic carefully cut out a healthy bet of 117,500 and moved the chips into the betting area. Menderes didn't take too long to fold, after which he retrieved his 
from the discard and showed them to his opponent.Medic nodded faintly as he stacked that nice pot, pushing him back up to 420,000.
. Fung quickly called on a draw, 
. Lestina turned up a pair, . That pair held when the turn and river were running clubs that were no help to Fung.
Action checked to Menderes on a jack-high flop,
. He bet 23,500 and was called only by Seed. Menderes may have sensed something amiss on the turn; after Seed checked, he checked behind. The river was the , a card that killed any further action. Seed showed two queens, , to take the pot.
and found he'd run into Rep Porter's . That's just about the worst preflop situation a player can be in, and it didn't get any better on a flop of 
. Sepilian was drawing dead by the turn.
