$3,300 Main Event Day 2 | 2023 Merit Poker Gangster Series

$3,300 Main Event

Day 2 Started

12-01-2023 10:38 UTC+2

Day 2 Seat Draw

Jeremy Geist

Table	Seat	Player	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Aleksandr Pak	187,000	75
1	2	Ihar Soika	370,000	148
1	3	Samir Moukawem	142,500	57
1	4	Bassel Moussa	197,500	79
1	5	Xiang Lian	64,000	26
1	6	Roman Nuraev	416,000	166
1	7	Xuming Qi	245,000	98
1	8	Kully Sidhu	274,500	110

2	1	Michel Habib	148,000	59
2	2	Nikolay Tyurin	280,000	112
2	3	Oleg Netaliev	118,500	47
2	4	Georges Sultanem	120,000	48
2	5	Antoine Labaky	163,000	65
2	6	Yunsheng Sun	267,500	107
2	7	Motokatsu Uhara	61,000	24
2	8	Florian Guimond	227,000	91

3	1	Dragoljub Martinovic	186,500	75
3	2	Lois Dufouleur	320,000	128
3	3	Maxim Brovko	132,500	53
3	4	Georgio Azar	213,500	85
3	5	Romain Retiere	348,000	139
3	6	Guiyang Wang	157,000	63
3	7	Andreas Tomazou	51,000	20
3	8	Cagdas Ersoy	87,000	35

4	1	Alkan Gundogan	124,000	50
4	2	Chadi Ojelli	135,000	54
4	3	Mikalai Vaskaboinikau	216,000	86
4	4	Andrey Litvinov	38,000	15
4	5	Volodymyr Drokin	391,000	156
4	6	Alisa Sibgatova	340,500	136
4	7	Alper Kerim	110,000	44
4	8	Agharazi Babayev	100,500	40

5	1	Maxime Chilaud	131,000	52
5	2	Jeremy Del Gallo	171,000	68
5	3	Maksim Skripkin	139,500	56
5	4	Boris Smuskevicius	129,000	52
5	5	Hadi Khordbin	183,000	73
5	6	Benjamin Hamnett	95,000	38
5	7	Sakis Adrianopoulos	227,500	91
5	8	Can Miral	147,500	59

6	1	Fabian Quoss	157,500	63
6	2	Huseyin Akgul	207,500	83
6	3	Yiannakis Papapetrou	131,500	53
6	4	Naji Tanuri	248,000	99
6	5	Abulmuhsin Aydin	101,000	40
6	6	Mantas Bagocius	402,000	161
6	7	Jenya Gavrilovich	48,500	19
6	8	Makram Saber	251,000	100

7	1	Ara Melkisetian	70,000	28
7	2	Gabriel Semaan	235,500	94
7	3	Alain Zeidan	80,000	32
7	4	Zhao Cheng	274,500	110
7	5	Murad Mohammad	337,500	135
7	6	Justin Steinbrenner	83,500	33
7	7	Naji Abdo	151,000	60
7	8	Jianbo Ding	98,500	39

8	1	Seref Anar	253,500	101
8	2	Baris Caliskan	160,000	64
8	3	Bakhos Joumaa	458,500	183
8	4	Bulent Ekinci	65,000	26
8	5	Maximilian Wieser	428,500	171
8	6	Matthew Davenport	255,500	102
8	7	Andreas Mavrikioy	357,000	143
8	8	Elie Farah	193,000	77

9	1	Iraklis Manikaros	269,000	108
9	2	Elyar Aghdasi	242,500	97
9	3	Liviu Ignat	121,000	48
9	4	Ghassan Khalil	75,500	30
9	5	Eli Saad	118,000	47
9	6	Nuri Hadioglu	296,000	118
9	7	Serban Spirea	78,000	31
9	8	Adrian State	182,000	73

10	1	Yigit Aksoy	72,500	29
10	2	Alain Hajj	207,000	83
10	3	Jakub Michalak	219,000	88
10	4	Guoliang Wei	401,500	161
10	5	Elias Saleh	223,500	89
10	6	Hassanin Hashim	165,000	66
10	7	Mariappan Subramaniam	415,500	166
10	8	Andrii Vasylyk	86,000	34

11	1	Dmitry Gromov	627,500	251
11	2	Amer Mahasen	195,500	78
11	3	Omar Azar	78,000	31
11	4	Maroun Jazzar	235,000	94
11	5	Amjad Nader	246,000	98
11	6	Cristinel Dumitru	168,000	67
11	7	Fadi Barakeh	400,000	160
11	8	Christos Leantzis	470,000	188

12	1	Sebastian Ferreira	367,000	147
12	2	Cengiz Seker	190,000	76
12	3	Ahmet Akyun	95,500	38
12	4	Giorgii Shkulukhiia	99,000	40
12	5	Kostiantyn Nikulin	358,500	143
12	6	Engin Sezerer	255,500	102
12	7	Tomasz Szczerbinski	110,000	44
12	8	Toby Joyce	347,500	139

13	1	Konstantin Generalov	128,000	51
13	2	Tahsin Cankurtaranli	362,000	145
13	3	Tugce Hursoz	80,000	32
13	4	Marian Cantea	97,000	39
13	5	Atilla Saracoglu	221,500	89
13	6	Alexandras Rusinovas	175,000	70
13	7	Ivan Govorov	129,500	52
13	8	Serdar Apaydin	75,000	30

14	1	Ali El-Siblani	431,000	172
14	2	Oladele Kupoluyi	120,000	48
14	3	Nuno Correia	137,500	55
14	4	Azamat Tulepbergenov	269,000	108
14	5	Sebastian Veghinas	80,000	32
14	6	Frederic Popot	261,000	104
14	7	Viktor Yugay	279,000	112
14	8	Ryan Mandara	78,000	31

15	1	Adi Rajkovic	379,000	152
15	2	Liwei Sun	117,000	47
15	3	Alekseev Vladimir	100,000	40
15	4	Atahan Cukurova	159,500	64
15	5	Watinee Robinson	249,500	100
15	6	Gurcan. Gungoren	193,000	77
15	7	Igor Pihela	87,000	35
15	8	Artur Vyborov	38,500	15

16	1	Mustafa Biz	263,000	105
16	2	Daniel Henriques	131,500	53
16	3	Halil Tasyurek	159,000	64
16	4	Sergey Baranski	95,500	38
16	5	Andrei Daniliuk	222,000	89
16	6	Selahaddin Bedir	430,500	172
16	7	Clement Bonnant	135,000	54
16	8	Joseph Mouwad	145,000	58

17	1	Vladimir Lelgant	72,500	29
17	2	John Doebs	764,500	306
17	3	Razvan Sabau	585,000	234
17	4	Aleksandr Razinkov	173,000	69
17	5	Recep Aydemir	185,000	74
17	6	Julien Trad	217,500	87
17	7	Antoine Hasbani	307,500	123
17	8	Leonid Sidelkovskii	284,500	114

18	1	Murad Cakir	131,000	52
18	2	Huseyin Yilmaz	69,000	28
18	3	Anton Markov	170,000	68
18	4	Amir Sonsino	345,000	138
18	5	Georgios Skarparis	165,000	66
18	6	Hassan Barakat	164,000	66
18	7	Vedat Mutlu	217,500	87
18	8	Maher Ali Achour	290,000	116

19	1	Martin Gabriel Diaz	183,000	73
19	2	Ghanim Dashti	126,500	51
19	3	Issam Tannouri	195,000	78
19	4	Simas Karaliunas	504,500	202
19	5	Sergey Bortsov	162,500	65
19	6	Bulut Celik	207,500	83
19	7	Ege Guven	332,500	133
19	8	Shuang Luo	670,500	268

20	1	Abdullah Akbarpoor	91,000	36
20	2	George Alahwal	311,000	124
20	3	Fadi Nakhoul	708,000	283
20	4	Robert Heidorn	267,000	107
20	5	Jihad Yehya	137,000	55
20	6	Joseph Sabe	233,500	93
20	7	Sarkis Akopian	221,500	89
20	8	Ali Yildiz	189,000	76

21	1	Sinead Priestley	432,000	173
21	2	Koray Korkmaz	154,000	62
21	3	Baurzhan Akimov	75,000	30
21	4	Mehmet Dalkilic	376,000	150
21	5	Hadi Khadra	125,000	50
21	6	Huseyin Kaba	240,000	96
21	7	Parahat Nurmuhammedov	317,000	127
21	8	Mohamad El Siblani	70,000	28

22	1	Damir Gabdullin	463,500	185
22	2	Andrei Vavilonskii	218,500	87
22	3	Assaad Al Schanaa	231,500	93
22	4	Dmitry Yurasov	231,000	92
22	5	Aleksandr Kirichenko	185,000	74
22	6	Robert-Paul Killian	66,500	27
22	7	Roman Gadzhiev	110,000	44
22	8	Umut Yukselir	79,500	32

23	1	Jun Yang	115,000	46
23	2	Cenk Nigbolu	43,000	17
23	3	Ali Soleimanian	184,000	74
23	4	Adem Marjanovic	525,000	210
23	5	Mehrshad Hosseinpour	247,000	99
23	6	George Meitanis	57,000	23
23	7	Walid Habib	142,000	57

24	1	Nils Pudel	183,000	73
24	2	Edgard Raffoul	229,500	92
24	3	David Aslanyan	87,000	35
24	4	Dmitry Pokhabov	217,500	87
24	5	Martynas Vitkauskas	249,000	100
24	6	Babak Delrouz	92,000	37
24	7	Safi Haidar	189,000	76

25	1	Bogdan-Andrei Munteanu	239,000	96
25	2	Anatoly Korochenskiy	287,000	115
25	3	Dawid Smolka	223,000	89
25	4	Ahmed Slimen	246,500	99
25	5	Cem Agpur	200,000	80
25	6	Levent Akcay	71,500	29
25	7	Azer Bayramov	232,000	93

26	1	Elias Merhi Aad	74,000	30
26	2	Iurii Saiapin	142,000	57
26	3	Rashad Iskandarov	106,000	42
26	4	Aziz Efe	85,000	34
26	5	Chengchun Sha	53,000	21
26	6	Alexey Popov	173,500	69
26	7	Ramzi Karam	238,000	95

27	1	Ankit Ahuja	322,000	129
27	2	Ondrej Drozd	74,500	30
27	3	Rytis Strigunas	78,500	31
27	4	Milen Bakardjiev	400,500	160
27	5	Mehmet Salih Samsa	258,000	103
27	6	Andrei Kaigorodtcev	122,500	49
27	7	Aleksei Petrov	766,000	306

12-01-2023 11:00 UTC+2

Aleksei Petrov Leads 211 Players Returning for Day 2 of the 2023 Merit Poker Gangster Series Main Event

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Jeremy Geist

After four flights, 211 players will be making their return to the Merit Crystal Cove Hotel for Day 2 of the 2023 Merit Poker Gangster Series $3,300 Main Event.

So far, a total of 458 runners have taken their shot at the prestigious event. After nine levels of play, Aleksei Petrov of Russia is currently sitting atop the leaderboard with a massive 306-big blind stack of 766,000. Hot on the trail is “John One,” a player who asked to remain anonymous, and Fadi Nakhoul of Lebanon with 708,000 or 283 big blinds. Registration for the event remains open until the end of the break after Level 14.

Top Ten Chip Counts

Place	Name	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Aleksei Petrov	Russia	766,000	306
2	John One	Unknown	764,500	306
3	Fadi Nakhoul	Lebanon	708,000	283
4	Shuang Luo	China	670,500	268
5	Dmitry Gromov	Russia	627,500	251
6	Razvan Sabau	Romania	585,000	234
7	Adem Marjanovic	Austria	525,000	210
8	Simas Karaliunas	Lithuania	504,500	202
9	Christos Leantzis	Cyprus	470,000	188
10	Damir Gabdullin	Russia	463,500	185

There are still some other crushers outside of the top ten that will look to make their mark on the field as the day moves along. Bracelet winner Guo Liang Wei (401,500) will look to make a second final table of the series after coming in fourth in the $5,300 High Roller, two-time Bracelet winner Dmitry Yurasov (231,000) will attempt a difficult feat in getting his third cash of the series, and WPT Champion Benjamin Hamnett (95,000) will look to add another trophy to the case.

The second day of the event is scheduled to start at 12:00 p.m. local time. The players who qualified on the first day will return to Level 10, with the blinds set at 1,000/2,500/2,500. The game will go on for another nine levels and is expected to conclude around 9:45 p.m. local time, with each level lasting for 60 minutes.

Stay tuned to PokerNews for updates on the Merit Poker Gangster Series and other top worldwide events!

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12-01-2023 12:11 UTC+2

Shuffle Up and Deal

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Ryan Lashmar

Cards are in the air for Day 2 of the $3,300 Main Event

Level: 10

Blinds: 1,000/2,500

Ante: 2,500

12-01-2023 12:27 UTC+2

Skhirtladze Battles the Chip Leader

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Ryan Lashmar

Level 10 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Aleksei Petrov opened to 5,500 in early position and was called by Tamazi Skhirtladze in middle position.

The flop came K♣8♦2♥ and Petrov fired a 5,000 continuation bet that was called by Skhirtladze.

Petrov bet again for 20,000 on the 10♠ turn and once again Skhirtladze made the call.

On the A♠ river Petrov checked and Skhirtladze moved all in for approximately 75,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Aleksei Petrov	745,000 -21,000	-21,000

Tamazi Skhirtladze	136,500 136,500	136,500

Tags: Aleksei Petrov Tamazi Skhirtladze

12-01-2023 12:30 UTC+2

Khordbin Delivers a Blow to Chilaud's Stack

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Jeremy Geist

Level 10 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Maxime Chilaud opened in late position to 5,500 before the small blind and Hadi Khordbin in the big blind both called.

The J♥10♦K♦ flop landed and action checked to Chilaud who continued for 6,500. The small blind folded and action was back on Khordbin who put in a large check-raise to 22,000. Chilaud thought it over and then called.

The A♣ hit the turn and action slowed down and checked through to a 5♦ river. Khordbin put his foot back on the gas and bet out for 31,000.

Chilaud went into the tank and after about a minute he flicked in a chip. Khordbin tabed Q♣9♠ for the nuts and Chilaud mucked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hadi Khordbin	245,000 62,000	62,000
Maxime Chilaud	120,000 -11,000	-11,000

Tags: Hadi Khordbin Maxime Chilaud

12-01-2023 12:43 UTC+2

Guven Takes a Chunk Out of Karaliunas

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Ryan Lashmar

Level 10 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Simas Karaliunas opened to 6,000 from the cutoff and Ege Guven three-bet to 18,500 from the big blind. Karaliunas made the call.

The flop came p9c7d4h] and Guven fired a 11,000 continuation bet. Karaliunas raised to 35,000 and Guven made the call.

On the 4♦ turn Guven checked, Karaliunas bet 60,000 and Guven called.

The river was the J♣ and Guven lead out with a bet of 95,000, forcing a fold from Karaliunas.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ege Guven	421,000 88,500	88,500
Simas Karaliunas	410,000 -94,500	-94,500

Tags: Ege Guven Simas Karaliunas

12-01-2023 12:50 UTC+2

Bonnant Puts in the Next Bet

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Jeremy Geist

Level 10 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Action was opened under the gun to 5,000 by Clement Bonnant. It folded to the cutoff who took a moment before putting in a three-bet to 14,000. The rest of the players folded and action was back on Bonnant who went deep into the tank.

After about a minute he put in a warm four-bet to the tune of 37,000. His opponent thought over his options but without wasting much of the tables time he folded.

Bonnant scooped a decent pile of chips without even seeing a flop.