Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/5,000
Ante: 5,000
2024 Merit Poker Western Series
$3,300 Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 2
2024 Merit Poker Western Series
Buy-in
$3,300
Prize Pool
$1,854,720
Entries
672
Level
36
Blinds
200,000 / 500,000
Ante
500,000
Entries
384
Players Left
130
Level 16
: Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Jianwei Lin opened to 8,000 from under the gun and Igor Pihela Jr moved all in for 102,000 from middle position. Lin made the call to put Pihela at risk.
Igor Pihela Jr: J♣J♦
Jianwei Lin: 9♣9♥
Pihela had the best of it with a bigger pocket pair and was well ahead on the J♥8♣Q♥ flop, although Lin did have a straight draw. Lin picked up a flush draw to go with it on the 5♥ turn but the 3♠ river was a brick and Pihela scored a full double up through Lin.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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885,000
35,000
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35,000 |
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214,000 |
Level 16
: Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Maroun Sily raised to 10,000 in the cutoff and Maher Achour called on the button, as did small blind Giorgiy Skhulukhiya. Benjamin Hamnett then three-bet to 50,000 in the big blind.
Sily moved all in for 95,000 and Achour and Skhulukhiya both folded, but Hamnett called to put him at risk.
Maroun Sily: A♠J♠
Benjamin Hamnett: 10♥10♦
Sily caught the A♥ in the window, but it was followed by 10♣5♦ as Hamnett flopped a set. Sily picked up a straight draw on the K♣ turn but missed the 4♣ river as Hamnett scored the knockout.
Nicolas Chouity, Thomas Eychenne, and Adrian State have also recently been eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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980,000
80,000
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80,000 |
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660,000
-43,000
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-43,000 |
|
450,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
Level 16
: Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Matthew Davenport opened to 10,000 from under the gun and was called by a player in the big blind.
The flop came Q♠10♦5♣. The big blind checked, Davenport bet 8,000 and the big blind made the call.
Both players checked the 9♥ turn leading to the 9♣ river. The big blind checked, Davenport bet 32,000 and once again his opponent made the call.
Davenport tabled K♠Q♣ for a flopped top pair which was good enough to take the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
785,000
335,000
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335,000 |
Level 16
: Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Michael Brown raised to 10,000 in the cutoff, Dmitry Gromov three-bet to 35,000 on the button, and Brown called.
The flop came 5♠2♠7♣ and Gromov continued for 15,000. Brown then raised to 60,000 and Gromov called.
The 8♠ fell on the turn and Brown fired out 70,000. Gromov tanked for a minute before gathering his cards and sending them back to the dealer.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
870,000
540,000
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540,000 |
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230,000
10,000
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10,000 |
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Level 16
: Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Aleksandr Kirichenko opened to 10,000 from middle position and Roman Hrabec three-bet to 30,000 from the hijack. Kirichenko made the call.
The flop came J♣3♥2♦ and Kirichenko check-called a 20,000 continuation bet from Hrabec.
Both players checked the 2♠ turn leading to the Q♥ river. Kirichenko checked once more, Hrabec bet 60,000 and Kirichenko put in a check-raise to 210,000. Hrabec opted to fold and Kirichenko took down a nice pot without showdown.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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802,000
182,000
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182,000 |
|
495,000
-125,000
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-125,000 |
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Level 16
: Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Roman Gadzhiev raised to 10,000 under the gun, Andrew Hedley three-bet to 28,000 in early position, and Gadzhiev called.
The flop came J♥K♥7♦ and Hedley bet 15,000. Gadzhiev called and both players then checked the A♦ turn.
The A♦ fell on the river and Gadzhiev pushed all in for 95,000. Hedley thought about the decision for around two minutes before folding.
"You can pick one," Gadzhiev said, putting his cards in front of him.
"I don't mind," Hedley said as the cards went face down into the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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400,000
220,000
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220,000 |
|
190,000
190,000
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190,000 |
Level 16
: Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Around 150,000 was already in the middle as Benjamin Hamnett and Mustafa Ercan went to a flop of Q♠6♦8♠. Hamnett then bet 100,000 from the button and Ercan called under the gun.
The turn was the 3♦ and Ercan moved all in for 260,000. Several minutes went off the clock as Hamnett agonized over the decision. Nuri Hadioglu eventually called time and a tournament official arrived to put Hamnett on a 30-second countdown.
The timer had nearly reached zero when Hamnett put in the chips. Ercan showed A♣A♥ and Hamnett began pushing him the chips before turning over K♦K♣.
The Q♦ river sealed Ercan's double up in the massive pot as Hamnett handed over most of his stack. "I thought I was folding the entire time," Hamnett said.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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850,000
310,000
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310,000 |
|
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100,000
-350,000
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-350,000 |
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Level 16
: Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Murad Cakir moved all in from the cutoff for 84,000 and was called by Vladimir Troyanovskiy who held a covering stack.
Murad Cakir: A♠9♥
Vladimir Troyanovskiy: K♦Q♠
Troyanovskiy could not connect with the J♦4♣3♥6♥10♣ runout and Cakir scored a full double up at his expense.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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192,000 | |
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178,000 |
Level 16
: Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Three players saw the turn on a board of 8♦3♥2♣4♦ with around 160,000 in the pot as action checked to Vladimir Bozinovic on the button.
He bet 52,000 and Ermanno Di Nicola then raised to 115,000 in the big blind. Nichan Khorchidian folded in middle position, while Bozinovic tanked for more than a minute until he also folded.
With that pot, Di Nicola has moved past 1,000,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,150,000
350,000
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350,000 |
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470,000
148,000
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148,000 |
|
200,000
-68,000
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-68,000 |
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