Level: 3
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 25
Level: 3
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 25
We're now on the first break of the day.
Selcuk Ayaz, from Turkey, had just won a big pot the hand before with in a pre-flop raising war. His opponent had called but given up on the flop. Now Ayaz was intent on keeping the good run going. He opened for 425, Kara Scott called and Nichan Khorchidian raised to 1,125 on the button. The blinds folded, Ayaz called as did Scott.
A flop of saw all three players check. on the turn and Khorchidian bets 1,170. Ayaz raised to 3,700. Scott got out of the way. “Clubs?” asked Khorchidian and made the call. Careful what you wish for as the last card was and Ayaz duly led for 4,700. Khorchidian looked confused. It took a couple of minutes but he seemed to put the puzzle together and made the call.
Ayaz had and a slightly relieved Khorchidian turned over for the winning top pair.
“Wow. Nice call.” Max Droege commented at the same table. It was indeed.
Dominik Nitsche, everyone's favourite German (if he's not yours then he should be) is back for another go at WPT Cyprus. He's just sat down at one of the two new tables to open which are incorporating the late arrivals.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Dominik Nitsche |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
Mateusz Moolhuizen is not going to have fond memories of the bwin WPT Merit Cyprus Classic. He's just been eliminated for the second time in as many days. Moolhuizen raised all in on the river over the top of a 10,600 bet from Seyed Ghavam with the board reading and Ghavam called with . Moolhuizen looked very disappointed, he'd held for a nasty case of set over set. Never mind Mateusz, at least you can fully enjoy the WPT party tonight...
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Mateusz Moolhuizen | Busted |
Simeon Naydenov is only the second Bulgarian to win a WSOP gold bracelet. He took down the $1,500 Shootout in Vegas this year for $326,400 and now he’s after a WPT title in Cyprus.
Naydenov opened to 350 and was raised by Alexandr Lakhov to 800. Lebanese player [Removed:2], who has been very active so far, called from the small blind. Naydenov put in the required 450 extra and three players saw a flop of . All three players checked so the dealer put out the turn card, . Naydenov bet 1,400, Lakhov called, Maksoud folded. The river was the . Both players checked.
Naydenov turned over for middle pair. Lakhov checked his cards again and finally showed them. for the winning top pair. A player at the end of the table called over to Naydenov, “First one you’ve lost.” Naydenov ignored him and focused his ire on Lakhov: “Why did you double check your cards and kind of slow roll?” A shrug was his only answer.
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A preflop raising war had seen Antranic Demirdijan three-bet to 1,600 only for Olexander Gnatenko to come back over the top with a four-bet to 4,100. Demirdijan then went for the big one, he moved all in for about 35,000 and Gnatenko smiled nervously before calling off his stack.
Demirdijan:
Gnatenko:
The flop came and Demirdijan picked up a big draw giving himself 12 outs. The on the turn and on the river didn't change anything though and Gnatenko managed to fade the big draw for a huge pot at this stage.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Olexander Gnatenko
|
60,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
Antranic Demirdijan
|
6,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
I guess the message didn’t get through.
Ali Baskan opened for 350, Max Droege called and, with the small blind folding, Kara Scott made it 1,375 to call. Baskan and Droege duly put the extra in and we saw a flop. . Scott was first to act and bet 1,700. While Baskan folded Droege wanted to see the turn card at least and called. He got to see the . Scott bumped the price up to 4,000 this time. Too much for Droege who gave her credit and folded.
Photo courtesy of the WPT
A good start for Albert Daher who was actually left lamenting the fact he could've bet more than the 3,650 amount he put on out the river of a board when holding . The reason for this was that Shamram Rajtegari, his opponent in the hand, had been holding for the flopped straight and had not intention of going anywhere.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Albert Daher |
35,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
All three of these guys played yesterday but are all back to take another shot.
Photo courtesy of the WPT
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Roger Hairabedian |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Mateusz Moolhuizen |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Andrey Shatilov |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |