Main Event
Day 3 Started
2012 World Poker Tour Merit Cyprus Classic
Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 World Poker Tour Merit Cyprus Classic
Buy-in
$4,000
Prize Pool
$1,212,694
Entries
329
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000
WPT Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event Day 3 Seat Draw
Here is the official seat draw for Day 3.
| Table | Seat | Name | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Victor Paraschiv | 160,500 |
| 1 | 2 | Arthur Voskanyan | 129,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Senol Sener | 257,000 |
| 1 | 4 | Roman Romanovskyi | 167,000 |
| 1 | 5 | Amirpasha Sadinejad | 237,000 |
| 1 | 6 | Ran Azor | 223,500 |
| 1 | 7 | Sergey Vasilyev | 131,000 |
| 1 | 8 | Peter Haslam | 131,500 |
| 1 | 9 | Hakan Dalokay | 84,000 |
| 2 | 1 | Gilboa Yossi | 39,500 |
| 2 | 2 | Per Ummer | 68,000 |
| 2 | 3 | Andras Nemeth | 337,000 |
| 2 | 4 | Sebastian Leclercq | 162,500 |
| 2 | 5 | Dominik Nitsche | 127,500 |
| 2 | 6 | Husnu Sincar | 225,500 |
| 2 | 7 | Boris Fragin | 100,500 |
| 2 | 8 | Andrey Shatilov | 279,500 |
| 2 | 9 | Mansour Khorramshahi | 195,000 |
| 3 | 1 | Ivan Tikhov | 242,500 |
| 3 | 2 | Maxim Panyak | 89,000 |
| 3 | 3 | Charbel Ghorayeb | 46,500 |
| 3 | 4 | Oleg Shepelenko | 68,500 |
| 3 | 5 | Robert Mizrachi | 365,000 |
| 3 | 6 | Vyacheslav Stoyanov | 356,500 |
| 3 | 7 | Marvin Rettenmaier | 251,000 |
| 3 | 8 | [Removed:2] | 237,500 |
| 3 | 9 | Selcuk Ayaz | 132,000 |
| 4 | 1 | Vladislav Mitrofanov | 61,000 |
| 4 | 2 | Oleksii Kovalchuk | 166,000 |
| 4 | 4 | Joseph El Khoury | 196,500 |
| 4 | 5 | Tolga Demirel | 298,000 |
| 4 | 6 | Igor Gurskiy | 162,500 |
| 4 | 7 | Kiryl Radzivonau | 107,500 |
| 4 | 8 | Erik Cajelais | 371,500 |
| 5 | 1 | Sam El Sayed | 375,500 |
| 5 | 2 | Marko Neumann | 234,000 |
| 5 | 3 | Alexey Popov | 163,000 |
| 5 | 4 | Aram Vartevaniyn | 197,000 |
| 5 | 5 | Chino Rheem | 361,000 |
| 5 | 6 | Martin Finger | 93,000 |
| 5 | 7 | Evgeny Taranyuk | 186,500 |
| 5 | 8 | Ara Melkistian | 166,000 |
| 5 | 9 | Denis Larin | 140,500 |
| 6 | 1 | Alexey Makarov | 202,500 |
| 6 | 2 | Manig Loeser | 277,500 |
| 6 | 3 | Grigory Zima | 198,000 |
| 6 | 4 | Kemal Sevevi | 145,500 |
| 6 | 5 | Walid Bou Habib | 143,500 |
| 6 | 6 | Stuart Fox | 125,500 |
| 6 | 7 | [Removed:167] | 134,000 |
| 6 | 8 | Oleksandr Kozyr | 155,000 |
| 6 | 9 | George Chehadeh | 55,000 |
Welcome to Day 3 of the WPT Merit Cyprus Classic
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Just 53 players remain of the first event of Season XI of the World Poker Tour, 36 players are getting paid a minimum of $8,070 with $287,784 for first place. Sam El Sayed is the current chip leader with 375,500 ahead of former bracelet winners Erik Cajelais and Robert Mizrachi as well as Chino Rheem.
There's lots of other players involved including a squadron of Germans in Martin Finger, Manig Loeser, Marvin Rettenmaier and Dominik Nitsche, the latter of which has a history of doing incredibly well in Cyprus, can he keep this up?
Today's plan is for five levels and we'll be expecting to hit the bubble sometime this afternoon. We'll be starting at 1pm local time in just under an hour so stay tuned for all the updates!
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
If You're Happy And Your Checking Clap Your Hands
Most poker players tap the table when they want to check their option to bet but not over on Table 5.
Chip leader Sam El Sayed opened to 8,500 from under the gun and the action folded to a late-arriving Chino Rheem in the cutoff. He was busy stacking his chips into towers of 20 when he made the call. Rheem was the only caller and it was heads-up to the 
flop.
El Sayed checked and Rheem checked but did so by clapping his hands!
"Was that a check?" asked El Sayed
The turn was the 
and El Sayed clapped his hands twice and checked. Rheem checked behind in a more traditional manner. The river was the 
and El Sayed checked again; this time by clapping three times. Rheem also checked.
"Your queen is good," said Rheem. "I have ace-high."
"You want to see my hand? I want to see yours."
Rheem turned over 
for ace-high whilst El Sayed showed 
.
"You see my hand, I want to see yours," said El Sayed
"Just ask me what I had and I will tell you," replied Rheem.
"No. I am a poker player," came the reply.
This duo are vocal at the best of times and it will be interesting to see who comes out on top in the battle to become table captain.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
425,000 | 49,500 |
|
311,000 | -50,000 |
Quick Start for Cajelais
Level 16
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Erik Cajelais started today second in chips and he's already picked up one decent pot after Igor Gurskiy opened to 9,000, Cajelais and Vladislav Mitrofanov calling from the blinds.
All three checked 
flop before Cajelais fired out 15,000 on the 
turn to quickly win the pot.
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Level 16
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Alexey Popov opened to 9,000 preflop and Chino Rheem three-bet to 21,000 just two seats down, the Russian making the call.
Both players checked the 
flop before Popov made a pot-sized bet of 50,000 on the turn.
"Nice hand," said a disappointed Rheem, flicking his hand into the muck.
Starvin' Marvin
Marvin Rettenmaier is on course for back to back WPT wins at the moment, he's the new chip leader after he just eliminated Selcuk Ayaz with 
against 
all in preflop with the board coming 
.
Rettenmaier has 465,000 as a result.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
465,000 | 82,000 |
|
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Busted |
Petering Out
Level 16
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Pete Haslem's exit earlier was a result of losing with 
to 
. Most of the money went in preflop meaning Haslem pushed on the 
flop only to find himself virtually drawing dead against his opponent's set.
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