Break
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
15 minutes break for the players. It's the last chance for players to buy (back) in, in 15 minutes registration closes.
2014 partypoker World Poker Tour Merit North Cyprus Classic
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2014 partypoker World Poker Tour Merit North Cyprus Classic
Buy-in
$4,000
Prize Pool
$1,486,720
Entries
404
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
0
Boujenah's Perspective
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Ilan Boujenah just leaned back, and told us what happened that made him so hopping mad minutes ago.
He was indeed facing the all in, and he was leaning towards a fold. The countdown had started, and áfter the floor had announced zero (which meant his hand was dead), he kind of moved his chips in the air forward to get a (late) reaction from his opponent, hoping that he would show his cards to make an end to the uncertainty.
Anyway, after this happened, some accusations of angle shooting erupted, while Boujenah didn't mean any harm and just really wanted to know his opponents hand.
That was it, and with just two hands missed (though it were the cutoff and hijack position he was missing out on), Boujenah is now again calm and collected.
Hakim Value Bets His Full House
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Jeffrey Hakim checked from the small blind on a flop of 
, and the big blind bet 3,100. A third player folded, Hakim made the call.
Both players checked the 
on the turn, and the 
on the river came to both players for free.
Hakim bet out 3,600, and his neighbor made the call.
Hakim showed his 
, but that hand wasn't good enough as the big blind tabled 
.
Hakim is still up for the day, he plays a little over 85,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
86,000 | 7,400 |
Another Controversial Situation Erupts
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Over at Table 6, the floor was called over. After some talk that we couldn't quite hear from over at the press desk, the floor apparently made a ruling Ilan Boujenah didn't like. At first, Boujenah shouted in English, but soon he switched over to French, a language the floor understood as well.
Boujenah had received a two-hand penalty, and this was what he was so upset about. Walking barefoot, he was furiously lifting his hands in the air out of dispair. He took his straw hat and angrily slammed it on the table. Boujenah wasn't happy, so much was clear.
Antoine Abou Khalil later explained us what happened, while he was shooting a video of Boujenah on the rail who was still kicking a fuss.
Apparently, on a board of 
, Boujenah's opponent had pushed all in. That made the decision up to Boujenah, who had a hard time making up his mind. It took so long that someone called the clock. Eventually, with the countdown already underway, Boujenah had made a forward motion with his chips in the air — sort of a pump fake — but it wasn't ruled as a call. Instead, it was ruled that Boujenah was using the move to gain an edge in the hand as an "angle shot" and he received a two-hand-penalty .
Down And Out
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
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Controversial Situation Makes TD Improvise
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
A player opened to 2,300, and another player made the call. Toby Lewis then squeezed from the button to 8,000. The initial raiser folded, but the third involved player shoved all in.
Lewis asked for a count, and the dealer started counting the big chips. As soon as it was clear that the player had Lewis covered, the Brit said "OK, that's fine" to indicate the dealer didn't need to count any more as the situation it was clear that Lewis had to decide for his tournament life. The Russian-speaking dealer misinterpreted Lewis' words as an indication that Lewis was folding, and announced "Pass."
The Russian-speaking player who had just pushed his stack forward, thought Lewis had folded, and proudly showed his 
.
And Lewis just sat there, with his cards still face down.
The floor was called over, and several players on the table tried to explain what happened. A Russian-speaking floor came over as well, and eventually the man in charge was made clear of what exactly had happened.
He thought about it, made sure it was a mistake by the dealer and not of one of the players, and then decided that he couldn't penalize any of the two involved players, as it wasn't their fault that the situation existed. He ruled that both Lewis and the all-in player had to take their stacks back (the 8,000 squeeze from Lewis, and the 56,500 push from the other player), and that the two would divide the 7,000 in the middle.
Lewis showed his 
and was fine with the decision made, though he said he would have most likely called.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
55,000 | 19,600 |
Chouity Loses A Race
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
And yeah that's enough to make a PokerNews headline.
A player in middle position shoved for 16,200, and Chouity made the call from the button. Both blinds folded, and it was time for a showdown.
Chouity showed 
, but wouldn't best the shortstack's 
: 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
68,100 | -16,400 |
Gnatenko Busts Kotov
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
İvan Kotov opened from middle position for 2,000, and Antonio Buonanno made the call from the button. Oleksandr Gnatenko squeezed to 6,500 from the small blind, and Kotov shoved all in for about 24,000 after some thinking. Buonanno thought about it for a bit, but folded. Gnatenko called with some reluctance.
İvan Kotov: 
Oleksandr Gnatenko:
Kotov was well ahead, but after the flop the head shaking began: 
. The 
on the turn and 
on the river were of no help for Kotov, and the one Ukrainian departed, as the other stacked up to just over 100,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
105,000 | 24,400 |
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Busted |
Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Welcome To Day 2
Day 2 await, in about an hour the tournament will start again, and 180 players will start their quest. Their quest for what you ask? Well, today isn't the day the money bubble will be reached, so it's just grinding today. Making it through the five 90-minute levels without dusting of your stack must be the main goal for the players.
Leading the charge is Albert Daher, who played about every other hand yesterday. He busted in the first level, but did much better on his second bullet. He bagged 219,200 in chips. There's a lot of players gunning for Daher's position. Sofia Lövgren, Toby Lewis, Dominik Nitsche, Sam Trickett, Simon Higgins, and many other will all try their best to gather as many chips as possible today.
Players are able to enter (and re enter once) the first level today, as long as your total amount of entries doesn't exceed four. So if you for example played Day 1a once, fired two bullets on Day 1b, and bust in the first hand today, you can still pay up $4,300 and give it one more shot.
The plan is to play five 90-minute levels, with no dinner break planned. Here's what that looks like:
| Level | Duration | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 90 minutes | 500 | 1,000 | 100 |
| 15 minutes break | ||||
| 11 | 90 minutes | 600 | 1,200 | 200 |
| 15 minutes break | ||||
| 12 | 90 minutes | 800 | 1,600 | 200 |
| 15 minutes break | ||||
| 13 | 90 minutes | 1,000 | 2,000 | 300 |
| 15 minutes break | ||||
| 14 | 90 minutes | 1,200 | 2,400 | 400 |