2012 World Poker Tour Merit Cyprus Classic

Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2012 World Poker Tour Merit Cyprus Classic

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
j9
Prize
$287,784
Event Info
Buy-in
$4,000
Prize Pool
$1,212,694
Entries
329
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000

Chips For Dinner

Here are some of the official chip counts from the dinner break.

Player Chips Progress
Sam El Sayed
Sam El Sayed
125,000
55,600
55,600
WPT 1X Winner
Chino Rheem us
Chino Rheem
105,000
40,000
40,000
$25K Fantasy
WPT 3X Winner
Ran Azor il
Ran Azor
100,000
Chadi Merhej
Chadi Merhej
100,000
Martin Finger de
Martin Finger
95,000
15,000
15,000
Michael Mizrachi us
Michael Mizrachi
90,000
25,000
25,000
$25K Fantasy
WPT 2X Winner
Dominik Nitsche de
Dominik Nitsche
80,300
-7,200
-7,200
WPT 1X Winner
Per Ummer se
Per Ummer
63,000
33,000
33,000
Gaelle Baumann fr
Gaelle Baumann
53,000
10,400
10,400
Winamax
Robert Mizrachi us
Robert Mizrachi
53,000
1,950
1,950
$25K Fantasy
WPT 1X Winner
Konstantin Tolokno
Konstantin Tolokno
45,000
12,400
12,400
Chris Moorman gb
Chris Moorman
42,000
7,500
7,500
WPT 1X Winner
Giuseppe Pantaleo de
Giuseppe Pantaleo
40,000
5,400
5,400
Johan Guilbert fr
Johan Guilbert
35,000
10,900
10,900
Run It Once
Kelly Kim us
Kelly Kim
33,000
1,800
1,800
Aubin Cazals fr
Aubin Cazals
26,000
9,550
9,550
Nicolas Chouity lb
Nicolas Chouity
24,000
-3,800
-3,800
Zimnan Ziyard gb
Zimnan Ziyard
23,000
-6,200
-6,200
Lukas Berglund us
Lukas Berglund
23,000
4,800
4,800
WPT 1X Winner
Eric Mizrachi us
Eric Mizrachi
23,000
Daniel Cates us
Daniel Cates
22,000
-3,900
-3,900

One Nils to Neubauer

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

Nils Neubauer set Najı Abdo all in on the river of a {Js8c6cTh4d} board, the latter calling but then instantly mucked when he saw Neubauer's {A-Clubs}{J-Diamonds}.

A couple of players were not happy about Abdo's muck and the tournament director confirmed that both hands must be shown after an all in and a call.

Abdo's hand was {Q-Diamonds}{10-Clubs} for the curious ones among you.

Moorman Eliminated By Hajjar

Chris Moorman has never made it to the money places in a World Poker Tour event and his cashless streak has continued here in Cyprus as he has just been eliminated by Dori Hajjar.

We joined the action on a {j-Clubs}{10-Hearts}{2-Clubs} flop; and what action it was! Hajjarhad bet 1,775 from early position and Moorman had raised it up to 4,575 from the button. Hajjar was sat pondering his next move, doing so whilst under the watchful gaze of Moorman. After 45 seconds, Hajjar took back his original bet and replaced it with 10 yellow chips worth a total of 10,000.

Moorman sat motionless for a few moments before counting his stack and then raising to 20,075 which left him with around 15,000 or so behind. Hajjar moved all-in and Moorman rechecked his cards and made the call.

Moorman: {Q-Clubs}{10-Clubs}
Hajjar: {A-Clubs}{a-Hearts}

The turn propelled Moorman into the lead, the {3-Clubs} completing his flush but any feelings of joy were soon shattered as the river was the {k-Clubs}, improving Hajjar to a better flush, which he celebrated by giving out an overenthusiastic roar and slamming his fist on the table.

Moorman on the other hand just stood and left the table like the pro that he is.

Player Chips Progress
Chris Moorman gb
Chris Moorman
Busted
WPT 1X Winner

Tags: Chris MoormanDori Hajjar

Russian Roulette

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

Maxim Tyurin (Bugger, I've already done a Tyurin Shroud joke today) has been been eliminated after he was virtually all in preflop (only a few hundred was left behind) with {J-Hearts}{J-Diamonds} against Ruslan Aronov's {A-Diamonds}{A-Hearts} but the board came {Q-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}{3-Hearts}{6-Clubs}{7-Hearts}.

That's one Russian down, a whole host more are left though.

Nitsche So Gut

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

Dominik Nitsche has just lost a huge pot that, had it gone his way, would have seen the young German become the chip leader.

A preflop raising war broke out between Nitsche and Igor Gurskiy that resulted in the latter being all-in as Nitsche covered him by 42,000 chips.

Nitsche turned over {k-Hearts}{k-Clubs} and was in a whole world of trouble against the {a-Hearts}{a-Clubs} of Gurskiy. The {6-Spades}{a-Diamonds}{8-Spades} left Nitsche all but drawing dead and the {q-Diamonds} turn confirmed his chips would now belong to Gurskiy. The meaningless {6-Hearts} on the river completed the hand and Nitsche is back to grinding up his stack; although he does still have 42,000 chips.

Lynn Gilmartin spoke with Nitsche during yesterday's Day 1a about his history of running well in this region of the world. Let's see if he can maintain that in this Main Event.

Tags: Dominik NitscheIgor Gurskiy

Going Kammando

A couple more exits for you now, first Majib Kammand went out after his {A-}{Q-} was no good versus the {6-}{6-} of Abou Saleh Elias after all the money went on the flop of a {Q-}{7-}{6-}{8-}{5-} board.

Elsewhere, Andrey Shatilov took out Maxime Reuter all-in preflop with {10-Hearts}{10-Spades} against the {J-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds} with the board coming {K-Spades}{7-Clubs}{8-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}{J-Spades}. "We were expecting aces versus kings," said an eyebrow raising tablemate.

Player Chips Progress
Majib Kammand
Majib Kammand
Busted
Maxime Reuter
Maxime Reuter
Busted

Kim Continues To Climb

Kelly Kim and Robert Mizrachi
Kelly Kim and Robert Mizrachi

Kelly Kim has been on a real tear since the dinner break and now finds himself armed with 72,000 chips.

On a flop reading {a-Diamonds}{4-Clubs}{9-Diamonds}, Vitaliy Tolokonnikov bet 5,000 into a pot containing almost 7,200 chips and it gave Kim something to think about. He thought about how to play the hand for almost a minute before raising to 12,300. It did not take as long for Tolokonnikov to act, he folded rather quickly.

Kim continues his climb.

Player Chips Progress
Kelly Kim us
Kelly Kim
72,000
39,000
39,000

Tags: Kelly KimVitaliy Tolokonnikov

Level: 8

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 75