$3,300 Main Event Day 1b | 2024 Merit Poker Carmen Series

03-22-2024 13:08 UTC+3

Early Faces in the Field

Ryan Lashmar

Level 1 : 200/500, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Nikolay Tyurin	100,000 100,000	100,000
Hassan Dahmani	100,000 100,000	100,000
Mihai Tusnea	100,000 100,000	100,000
Boris Tabiyev	100,000 100,000	100,000
Anton Markov	100,000 100,000	100,000
Mustafa Ercan	100,000 100,000	100,000
Zeki Karali	100,000 100,000	100,000
Emmanouil Fountoulakis	100,000 100,000	100,000
Iurii Saiapin	100,000 100,000	100,000
Umutcan Ipekoglu	100,000 100,000	100,000
Ilia Borisov	100,000 100,000	100,000
Elena Yasyuchenya	100,000 100,000	100,000
Arne Coulier	100,000 100,000	100,000
Rashad Iskandarov	100,000 100,000	100,000
Anatoly Nikitin	100,000 100,000	100,000
Viktor Graf	100,000 100,000	100,000
Sergey Bortsov	100,000 100,000	100,000
Mustafa Sancak	100,000 100,000	100,000
Milen Bakardjiev	100,000 100,000	100,000
Aleksandar Tot	100,000 100,000	100,000

Level: 1

Blinds: 200/500

Ante: 500

03-22-2024 13:07 UTC+3

Shuffle Up and Deal

Ryan Lashmar

With the tournament clock showing 31 entrants to start the day, cards are in the air for Day 1b of the Main Event.

03-22-2024 11:12 UTC+3

Welcome to Day 1b of Merit Poker Carmen Series Main Event

Ryan Lashmar

Day 1b of the 2024 Merit Poker Carmen Series $3,300 Main Event here at the Merit Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino is set to kick off today at noon local time. Russia's Dmitrii Kuzin leads the way from the first starting flight, finishing Day 1a with an impressive 647,500 chips. A new group of contenders will try to replicate that success in today's Day 1b flight.

Day 1a Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Dmitrii Kuzin	Russian Federation	647,500	259
2	Fausto Tantillo	Italy	602,000	241
3	Jovan Kenjic	Serbia	547,500	219
4	George Tomescu	Romania	514,000	206
5	Uladzimir Zhyharau	Belarus	507,500	203
6	Florian Guimond	France	448,500	179
7	Kacper Pyzara	Poland	444,000	178
8	Simone Andrian	Italy	436,500	175
9	Daniel Kyosev	Bulgaria	417,000	167
10	Maximilian Silz	Germany	405,500	162

Other notables who survived yesterday's Day 1a flight include Simone Andrian (436,500), Milos Skrbic (404,000), Vladimir Bozinovic (388,000), Andrea Dato (276,000), Felipe Ketzer (164,500) and Victor Yugay (125,000).

Day 1b will feature the same structure as yesterday's Day 1a. Players will start with 100,000 chips and play nine 60-minute levels. There will be a break after every two levels. Unlimited reentries and late registration will be available until the end of Level 14 on Day 2.

Those who bag and tag at the end of the night will join the survivors from yesterday's flight in advancing to Day 2 on March 24. Before that, there will be two more starting flights, with Day 1c beginning at noon local time on March 23 and a turbo Day 1d set to begin at 7:00 p.m. the same day.

Day 1a attracted a total of 186 entrants vying to take home the title and lion's share of the $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. That number is expected to grow substantially starting today, with three more starting flights left to go. As always, stay tuned to PokerNews as we bring you all the updates for this event from the moment cards are in the air until a winner is crowned on March 26.

Tags: Andrea Dato Daniel Kyosev Dmitrii Kuzin Fausto Tantillo Felipe Ketzer Florian Guimond George Tomescu Jovan Kenjic Kacper Pyzara Maximilian Silz Milos Skrbic Simone Andrian Uladzimir Zhyharau Victor Yugay Vladimir Bozinovic