Main Event Day 2 | 2014 partypoker World Poker Tour Merit North Cyprus Classic

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Day 2 Started

09-07-2014 08:27 UTC+3

Day 2 Seat Draw and Chip Counts (full)

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Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chips
1	1	Markus Ross	Germany	43,500
1	2	Aleksey Romanov	Russia	84,900
1	3	Igor Yaroshevskyy	Russia	67,600
1	4	Ercan Olgun	Turkey	32,300
1	5	Mario Perez	Spain	70,200
1	6	Samuel Trickett	United Kingdom	14,000
1	7	Marius Maciukas	Greece	56,300
1	8	Rumen Nanev	Bulgaria	77,900

2	1	Sotiris Koutoupas	Cyprus	40,900
2	2	Lınh Tran	Turkey	18,100
2	3	Kemal Yöyen	Germany	28,900
2	4	Sergey Frolov	Russia	60,700
2	5	Nikos Diavatis	Greece	10,900
2	6	Mikhail Surin	Russia	46,200
2	7	Alexandr Denisov	Russia	38,100
2	8	[Removed:266]	Russia	44,000

3	1	Edy El Khoury	Lebanon	73,800
3	2	Andrıı Nadıelıaıev	Ukraine	68,700
3	3	James Dempsey	United Kingdom	114,400
3	4	Dan Rudd	United Kingdom	66,100
3	5	Andrei Nikonov	Russia	41,700
3	6	Ori Miler	Israel	115,000
3	7	Nikolay Vershinin	Russia	52,400
3	8	Mark Darner	United Kingdom	34,600

4	1	Tomas Jozonis	Lithuania	137,500
4	2	Özgür Arda	Turkey	30,300
4	3	Pavel Zuev	Russia	40,200
4	4	Vyacheslav Stoyanov	Bulgaria	73,500
4	5	Evgeny Taranyuk	Russia	56,600
4	6	Walid Bou Habib	Lebanon	72,100
4	7	Nuri Kural	Turkey	39,700
4	8	Igor Tsymbal	Russia	105,800

6	1	Ilan Boujenah	United Kingdom	90,300
6	2	Onur Ünsal	Turkey	54,000
6	3	Aliaksei Boika	Belarus	83,600
6	4	Dimitris Ballas	Greece	93,100
6	5	Mickey Petersen	United Kingdom	9,800
6	6	Andrey Golubev	Russia	75,800
6	7	Antoine Abou Khalil	Lebanon	69,100
6	8	Vedat Levi	Turkey	83,400

7	1	Maxim Panyak	Russia	39,600
7	2	Yury Salikaev	Russia	77,800
7	3	Simon Higgins	United Kingdom	103,400
7	4	Alexander Orlov	Russia	98,300
7	5	Dmitry Mezhirov.	Russia	32,200
7	6	Domantas Klimciauska	Lithuania	43,400
7	7	Michel Habib	Lebanon	33,600
7	8	Anton Astapau	Russia	89,900

8	1	Evren Coşkun	Turkey	31,500
8	2	Ivan Sheptytskiy	Russia	144,100
8	3	Sakis Nicolaou	Cyprus	40,500
8	4	Çağlar Bayındır	Turkey	41,900
8	5	Jonathan Klingenberg	Sweden	65,000
8	6	Julian Revter	United Kingdom	32,700
8	7	Bradley Gibbs	United Kingdom	38,700
8	8	Alexander Bogdanov	Russia	90,000

9	1	Ali Hassan	Lebanon	80,900
9	2	Omer Shaked	Israel	29,900
9	3	Şeref Dursun Anar	Turkey	147,200
9	4	Cem Evliya	Turkey	0
9	5	Olexandr Zhyrnov	Ukraine	66,700
9	6	Dmitry Bayramov	Russia	149,200
9	7	Stefan Schillhabel	Germany	12,500
9	8	Nuri Hadioğlu	Turkey	45,000

10	1	Oleg Suntsov	Russia	59,600
10	2	Benjamin Vinson	United Kingdom	25,900
10	3	Igor Dubinskyy	Russia	119,400
10	4	Yotam Bar Yosef	Israel	24,800
10	5	Danny Laming	United Kingdom	54,500
10	6	Andrey Pateychuk	Russia	28,300
10	7	Maxim Skvortsov	Russia	16,100
10	8	Albert Daher	Lebanon	219,200

11	1	Musa Genç	Turkey	25,000
11	2	Mantas Bagocius	Lithuania	55,000
11	3	Christian Christner	Germany	11,800
11	4	William Dorey	United Kingdom	67,400
11	5	Richard Berridge	United Kingdom	99,600
11	6	Erwann Pecheux	Greece	17,700
11	7	Andrey Shatilov	Russia	25,000
11	8	Louis Frederick Salter	United Kingdom	40,000

12	1	Marco Della Tommasina	Italia	121,000
12	2	Yehonatan Levy	Israel	89,700
12	3	Gareth Teatum	United Kingdom	10,900
12	4	Jeff Hakim	Lebanon	78,600
12	5	Mahmoud İbrahim Berjaoui	Turkey	26,700
12	6	Sofia Lovgren	Sweden	56,700
12	7	Luca Moschitta	Italia	14,000
12	8	Ashkan Fattahi	Iran	31,100

13	1	Ara Melkisetian	Lebanon	88,000
13	2	Ziv Bachar	Israel	30,000
13	3	Dmitry Vitkind	Russia	74,500
13	4	Teo Aidonopoulos	Greece	45,000
13	5	Alexander Kostylev	Russia	38,600
13	6	Andrey Ivashkin	Russia	25,000
13	7	Raul Olarescu	Romania	95,000
13	8	Charles Chatta	United Kingdom	49,400

14	1	Timor Mavgolin	Israel	129,900
14	2	Pawel Zawadowicz	Poland	69,400
14	3	Salim Fakih	Lebanon	60,200
14	4	Toni Judet	Romania	116,100
14	5	Andrejs Perederejevs	Latvia	50,700
14	6	Alexander Stasenko	Russia	70,500
14	7	Jean Paul Zaffran	France	23,200
14	8	Alexander Lakhov	Russia	23,200

15	1	Elias Moukavem	Lebanon	89,600
15	2	Oleg Polyakov	Russia	62,700
15	3	Hakan Kuşçu	Turkey	39,500
15	4	Abbas Moradi	Iran	85,400
15	5	Toby Lewis	United Kingdom	35,400
15	6	Gulyy Yura	Russia	75,300
15	7	Oliver Price	United Kingdom	60,900
15	8	Vladimir Troyanovskiy	Russia	53,300

16	1	Antonio Buonanno	Italia	20,200
16	2	Oleksandr Gnatenko	Ukraine	80,600
16	3	[Removed:2]	Lebanon	41,700
16	4	Louis Diab	Lebanon	131,600
16	5	Menny Ben Haim	Israel	32,100
16	6	Mustafa Marioumoglo	Lebanon	62,600
16	7	İvan Kotov	Ukraine	24,100
16	8	Vitaly Zholudev	Russia	87,700

17	1	Joseph Emile Khneisser	Lebanon	55,500
17	2	Bernhard Gülzow	Germany	142,900
17	3	Serhii Leonichev	Ukraine	16,300
17	4	Jacoues Torbey	Lebanon	118,900
17	5	Nichan Khorchidian	Lebanon	87,200
17	6	Nicolas Chouity	Lebanon	84,500
17	7	Anatoly Filatov	Russia	28,300
17	8	David Elyashar	Israel	78,500

18	1	Dmitry Samoylenko	Ukraine	126,300
18	2	Charbel Salloum	Lebanon	87,300
18	3	Evgeniy Starikov	Russia	51,900
18	4	Manig Loeser	Germany	32,500
18	5	Albert Diwan	Lebanon	77,800
18	6	Ludovic Riehl	Slovakia	31,700
18	7	Yaron Genut	Turkey	19,000
18	8	Dmitry Kataev	Russia	51,000

19	1	Aleksey Arakelov	Russia	53,100
19	2	Jack Salter	United Kingdom	29,700
19	3	Dmitry Gromov	Russia	182,700
19	4	Alexander Gurin	Moldova	49,500
19	5	Vladimir Dobrovolskiy	Russia	99,700
19	6	Nicolay Langfeldt	Norway	35,300
19	7	Dmitry Ivanov	Russia	14,900
19	8	Mikhail Korotkih	Russia	71,700

20	1	Alexey Rybin	Russia	36,100
20	2	Evgeny Starikov (Father)	Russia	53,300
20	3	Gabriel Schaucash	Lebanon	63,200
20	4	Dmitry Pokhabov	Russia	113,700
20	5	Dmitriy Nemirovskiy	Russia	45,700
20	6	Serdar Sağlam	Turkey	107,900
20	7	Dominik Nitsche	Germany	29,600

21	1	Omid Mojaverian	Iran	31,400
21	2	Alexey Makarov	Russia	82,900
21	3	Fuad Serhan	United Kingdom	18,600
21	4	Nikolay Tyurin	Russia	57,500
21	5	Kiryl Radzivonau	Belarus	31,600
21	6	Şevket Başev	Turkey	14,800
21	7	İdris Şahin	Turkey	74,400

22	1	Boris Yanpolskiy	Russia	42,000
22	2	Dmitry Kuzmin2	Russia	57,100
22	3	Harprit Gurnam	United Kingdom	54,600
22	4	Said Kasis	Lebanon	26,600
22	5	Majid Ejlal Noubarian	Iran	97,400
22	6	Dmitry Pcheliakov	Russia	47,200
22	7	Natig Ismayilov	Azerbaijan	26,500

23	1	Alexander Nudin	Russia	48,900
23	2	Nikolay Baryshnikov	Russia	55,600
23	3	Paul Tedeschi	France	83,500
23	4	Paolo Petrucci	Italia	59,700
23	5	Alexandr Konstantinov	Russia	136,100
23	6	Philipp Tsitkin	Russia	78,700
23	7	Ivan Konechniy	Russia	52,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Albert Daher	219,200
Dmitry Gromov	182,700	69,000
Dmitry Bayramov	149,200
Şeref Dursun Anar	147,200
Ivan Sheptytskiy	144,100
Bernhard Gülzow	142,900	142,900
Tomas Jozonis	137,500	137,500
Alexandr Konstantinov	136,100	136,100
Louis Diab	131,600	131,600
Timor Mavgolin	129,900
Dmitry Samoylenko	126,300	-56,400
Marco Della Tommasina	121,000	121,000
Igor Dubinskyy	119,400	13,600
Jacoues Torbey	118,900
Toni Judet	116,100	86,100
Ori Miler	115,000	115,000
James Dempsey	114,400
Dmitry Pokhabov	113,700	56,600
Serdar Sağlam	107,900
Igor Tsymbal	105,800	105,800
Simon Higgins	103,400
Vladimir Dobrovolskiy	99,700	46,400
Richard Berridge	99,600	99,600
Alexander Orlov	98,300	27,800
Majid Ejlal Noubarian	97,400

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09-07-2014 12:13 UTC+3

Welcome To Day 2

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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

Level: 10

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

09-07-2014 13:27 UTC+3

Gnatenko Busts Kotov

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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
Oleksandr Gnatenko	105,000	24,400
İvan Kotov	Busted

Tags: Antonio Buonanno Oleksandr Gnatenko İvan Kotov

09-07-2014 13:30 UTC+3

Chouity Loses A Race

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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
Nicolas Chouity	68,100	-16,400

Tags: Nicolas Chouity

09-07-2014 13:53 UTC+3

Controversial Situation Makes TD Improvise

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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
Toby Lewis	55,000	19,600

Tags: Toby Lewis

09-07-2014 14:02 UTC+3

Down And Out

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Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Stefan Schillhabel	Busted
Karwan Hasan	Busted
İvan Kotov	Busted
Daniel Keller	Busted
Ziv Bachar	Busted
Alexandr Denisov	Busted
Gabriel Schaucash	Busted
Musa Genç	Busted
Chadi Ojelli	Busted
Charbel Salloum	Busted
Ashkan Fattahi	Busted
Anatoly Filatov	Busted
Lınh Tran	Busted
Joseph Emile Khneisser	Busted

09-07-2014 14:13 UTC+3

Another Controversial Situation Erupts

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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 .