Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Mehmet Demirkol |
88,000
42,300
|
42,300 |
Kirill Shcherbakov |
78,000
78,000
|
78,000 |
Marco Poccia |
72,000
46,000
|
46,000 |
Saar Wilf |
63,800
2,800
|
2,800 |
Monica Vaka |
63,500
11,500
|
11,500 |
Michael Allen |
60,000
31,500
|
31,500 |
Roman Gadzhiev |
59,000
59,000
|
59,000 |
Elie Saad |
57,100
57,100
|
57,100 |
Elie Farah |
57,000
57,000
|
57,000 |
Gerard Rubiralta |
56,500
56,500
|
56,500 |
Juan Pardo |
55,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
Oleg Eltsov |
53,000
-5,500
|
-5,500 |
Shakhabiddin Muradov |
52,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
Yiannis Liperis |
51,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
Evgenii Ushakov |
50,600
19,600
|
19,600 |
Martin Stausholm |
50,500
20,500
|
20,500 |
Ryan Mandara |
50,100
17,100
|
17,100 |
Mykhailo Demydenko |
50,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
Fouad Toujani |
50,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
Jason James |
48,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
2024 PokerStars EPT Cyprus
Chip Counts
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/300
Ante: 300
The players have been sent on a 20-minute break.
Action was on the turn on a board of 8♦7♣9♠6♣ and Fouad Toujani bet 3,000. Jason Wheeler raised it to 8,000 and Toujani called.
The river was the 8♣ and Toujani shoved a stack of chips into the middle to put Wheeler all in.
Wheeler started talking it through. "Your story doesn't make sense," he said before eventually making the fold. Toujani raked in the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Fouad Toujani |
49,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
Jason Wheeler | 20,000 |
With the pot sitting at around 15,600 and the board reading 8♠5♦Q♣2♣6♣, only two players remained in the hand: Lyudmil Ivanov in the under-the-gun position and Stanislaw Grodek in early position. Ivanov checked, keeping his options open, but Grodek wasn’t ready to slow down. With only 8,800 left in his stack, Grodek made the bold move and shoved all in, putting his tournament life on the line.
Ivanov was faced with a tough decision and went deep into the tank, weighing the possibility of giving up a decent-sized pot. The pressure was palpable as he considered his next move, with minutes ticking by. Ultimately, Ivanov decided to fold, allowing Grodek to continue his journey in the tournament.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Stanislaw Grodek | 24,400 | |
Lyudmil Ivanov | 22,700 |
Arthur Thiriart opened to 500 from early position and received calls from Mark Smith in the cutoff, and Ivan Zabiiakin and Shankui Li in the blinds.
On the 7♠4♠2♠ flop, action was checked to Smith, who fired out a bet of 600. Zabiiakin produced a check-raise to 2,200, Li folded, and Thiriart pumped it up further to 4,500. Smith folded but, after some thought, Zabiiakin made the call.
On the 8♣ turn, Zabiiakin check-called versus a downsized bet of 3,000 from Thiriart.
The 7♥ river paired the board and was checked through. Zabiiakin showed K♠6♠ for the flopped king-high flush, and Thiriart mucked his hand.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ivan Zabiiakin |
36,000
36,000
|
36,000 |
Arthur Thiriart |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Mark Steven Smith |
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
Shankui Li |
21,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
Maxim Brovko raised from the hijack to 500 and Ali Zebarjad defended from the big blind.
They went to a flop of 9♦9♠3♠ where Zebarjad check-called a bet of 500 from Brovko.
Zebarjad went into check-call mode again on the 4♦ turn when Brovko fired 1,800, then they both checked the 2♥ river to showdown.
Zebarjad showed 5♦5♥ for a pair of fives, and Brovko mucked his hand.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ali Zebarjad |
48,000
-2,000
|
-2,000 |
Maxim Brovko |
15,000
-15,000
|
-15,000 |
There were already around 12,000 chips in the pot on a full board of 2♠K♠7♦9♥J♣ when Sebastian Ting checked the river from the small blind, and Milos Petakovic fired a pot-sized bet of 12,500 from the button. Ting was contemplating how to proceed and after a while, he dropped in the call.
Petakovic then showed 9♠9♦, and Ting flashed the K♥ before he sent his cards into the muck.
"Stars nuts," remarked Taago Tamm, who is sat on the same table.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Milos Petakovic |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Taago Tamm |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Sebastian Ting |
10,500
10,500
|
10,500 |
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The following players have busted their first entry in the Main Event. Late registration is still open all the way up until Day 2, but players can only fire a total of two bullets across all flights.
Adrien Quetelart also busted earlier in a hand covered by PokerNews.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Christoforos Chrysochoidis | Busted | |
Eric Afriat | Busted | |
Abdullah Alajmi | Busted | |
Sokratis Linaras | Busted | |
Stoyan Madanzhiev | Busted | |
Atanas Kodinov | Busted | |
Pablo Silva | Busted | |
Salah Assi | Busted | |
Konstantin Voronin | Busted | |
Andriy Lyubovetskiy | Busted |