2024 Merit Poker Western Series

$3,300 Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2024 Merit Poker Western Series

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
99
Prize
$342,500
Event Info
Buy-in
$3,300
Prize Pool
$1,854,720
Entries
672
Level Info
Level
36
Blinds
200,000 / 500,000
Ante
500,000
Players Info - Day 2
Entries
384
Players Left
130

Smolka Flops Trips to Double

Level 12 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Dawid Smolka
Dawid Smolka

John Doebs' massive towers of chips in front of him were just slightly reduced after he tangled in a pot with Dawid Smolka.

Doebs bet 15,000 from the cutoff on a flop of 556 and Seref Dursun Anar called in the small blind. Smolka then raised to 36,000 in the big blind.

Doebs moved all in and Anar quickly folded. Smolka, then, snap-called for 90,000. "You have a five, huh," Doebs said as they turned over their cards.

Dawid Smolka: 53
John Doebs: 76

Smolka had indeed flopped trip fives as the board ran out 9K to earn him a double up.

"What a huge comeback. I had 80,000," Doebs later said as he still sat with around 650,000 following the hand.

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of John Doebs tr
John Doebs
650,000
100,000
100,000
Profile photo of Seref Anar tr
Seref Anar
300,000
78,000
78,000
Profile photo of Dawid Smolka pl
Dawid Smolka
220,000
104,000
104,000

Tags: Dawid SmolkaJohn DoebsSeref Dursun Anar