At 13:00 local time (12:00 CET), the last 12 players out of a 172-entry strong field will return to the tables at the Noah's Ark Deluxe Hotel & Spa for the final day of the €1,800+200 partypoker World Poker Tour National Cyprus Main Event. All remaining players already have €5,375 locked up for their efforts, but all eyes are set on the winner trophy and first-place payout of €75,000. The full payouts can be found here. Leading the field is Majid Ejlal Noubarian from Iran with 895,000 chips followed by Kemal Sevevi (805,000) and Atanas Kavrakov (667,000).
The shortest stack returns with 20 big blinds for the upcoming level 19 at 4,000-8,000 and a running ante of 1,000, each level will last 60 minutes. It is also the final day of the WPT Cyprus Winterfest in Bafra with the final of the €50,000-guaranteed Let's Fly Event as well as the WPT Turbo edition that features a guarantee of €25,000.
As always, the PokerNews team is bring you all the good and bad beats until the latest WPT National champion is crowned. Also check out the updates from the Aussie Millions Main Event and the AU$100,000 Challenge from down under.
After a raise to 16,000 by Vitalii Grekul on the button, Aykutalp Yilmaz moved all in for 167,000 chips and was called by the Ukrainian. Yilmaz had a kicker problem with against the of Grekul and both players would find top pair on the flop. Neither the turn nor the river changed anything and Yilmaz headed to the rail.
After a raise to 16,000, Jacques Torbey three-bet to 39,000 from the small blind and Grigorii Rodin moved all in for 112,000 out of the big blind. The initial raiser folded but Torbey called with the . Rodin held pocket tens and the flop gave Torbey more outs.
The Lebanese asked for another jack and sure enough the fell straight as next community card. A blank river completed the board and Rodin headed to the payout desk in order to collect €5,375 for his efforts.
Carl Maertzen raised to 21,000 and faced the three-bet of chip leader Majid Ejlal Noubarian to 60,000. Maertzen moved all in for around 240,000 with and was snap-called by the Iranian with . The window card was the right away and the rest of the board ran out .
It was some crazy action for sure that caused a three-way all in with Marco Della Tommasina four-bet shoving for 179,000 chips. Chip leader Majid Ejlal Noubarian as initial aggressor reshoved and Mohamed Almani called all in for almost 800,000 chips.
Almani:
Della Tommasina:
Ejlal Noubarian:
"I cannot fold," Almani said and that spotted the bad news. Kemal Sevevi procrastinated a "jack for Italia" and exactly that happened with a board of . The river gave Della Tommasina a triple up whereas Almani was sent to the rail in ninth place.
A short break will now take place to set up the official final table.
Kemal Sevevi raised to 25,000 from the button and was called by Vasili Kesnin in the small blind as well as Atanas Kavrakov in the big blind. On the flop, the action was checked to Sevevi and he bet 32,000. Kesnin called but then folded when Kavrakov check-raised to 100,000. Sevevi called.
Both players checked the turn and Kavrakov bet 160,000 after the river. Sevevi looked quite confused but ended up calling to muck his when shown . It should also be mentioned that nine-deuce is the favorite hand of this very blogger.
Atanas Kavrakov opened to 34,000 and Ercan Olgun peeked at his cards. He then asked short stack Kemal Sevevi in the big blind for his stack before moving all in for approximately 400,000. All opponents but the Bulgarian folded and Kavrakov snap-called.
Olgun:
Kavrakov:
The flop was no good for Olgun and it was all over after the appeared on the turn. To rub it in, Olgun's now meaningless ace would come with the river. For his efforts, Olgun takes home €9,900.
Jacques Torbey raised to 55,000 from the cutoff and Kemal Sevevi moved all in for 322,000 from the button. Torbey gave his opponent some credit and himself a bit of consideration, but made the call with . Sevevi had two outs with but couldn't get there on a board of . For his efforts, he scored €14,900.
There were three all-in showdowns in a row. In the first one, Marco Della Tommasina moved all in for 266,000 from under the gun with and was called by Vitalii Grekul in the big blind with . The board ran out and the Italian doubled up.
One hand later Grekul pushed from the small blind for 157,000 and doubled through Della Tommasina's after improving with on a board of .
The third hand saw a push from Grekul from the button for around 330,000 with and Jacques Torbey called out of the big blind with . This time the board ran out , sending the Ukrainian to the rail in 5th place for €18,700).
Jacques Torbey raised to 60,000 and Atanas Kavrakov three-bet to 150,000 from the button. Majid Ejlal Noubarian moved all in for 858,000 and Torbey tank-folded pocket nines. Kavrakov called with and it was a coin flip against the of the Iranian.
The gave Kavrakov additional outs with the spades flush draw, however Noubarian held up with the turn and the river as final community cards. Torbey would have rivered the full house ...
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flop, the action was checked to Sevevi and he bet 32,000. Kesnin called but then folded when Kavrakov check-raised to 100,000. Sevevi called.
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