2009 WPT Merit Cyprus Classic

WPT Merit Cyprus Classic Championship
Day: 1a
Event Info

2009 WPT Merit Cyprus Classic

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
77
Prize
$579,165
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Entries
181
Level Info
Level
25
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000

Paid to Play

Full Tilt qualifier Yves Farges
Full Tilt qualifier Yves Farges
Several of the players in today's field earned their seats via qualifying tournaments on Full Tilt Poker. Yves Farges is one of those players and he was lucky enough to win a main event package and then some.

Farges explained during the last break that he invested just $104 on Full Tilt to get here. He first joined and won a $10 rebuy event, which earned him a seat in a $322 super satellite. The super sat. had 92 players and gave away two seats. He claimed one of them and Shaun Deeb snatched up the other.

Along the way, Farges told us he managed to knock out Full Tilt Pro Martin Kläser in the $322 super, claiming one of Full Tilt's pro bounties worth $200, meaning the seat essentially cost him nothing.

Farges is currently sitting with about 43,000 in chips and to the immediate left of WPT pro Antonio Esfandiari.

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