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 .
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.
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.
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.