The full schedule for today, 23rd of January, Thursday.

13.00
Level14
Blinds 1000/2500/2500
271/624
5 more levels of late registration.
14.00#MainEvent Day2
“Everybody folded, a player on a small blind limped. I made 4x raise – 10K. He reraised me 32K, I called.
Flop rainbow 76
2
He checked, i bet quater – 16K, he called.Turn 7We both checked.
River KHe bet 30K, and I jammed under his stack – around 170K. He tanked for a while and made a call with AK
. I showed 7
8
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In 2024, we had 672 entries in the Western Series.
And now we already have 686!
It’s an incredible atmosphere. Full house and all in the Main Event.




























“I opened utg 6K, hj and button called.
Flop: K9
3
I bet 10K, only button called.Turn: KI bet 22K, he called again.River: JI bet 26K, he raised 137K. I made the call with AA
. He showed J
J
After this I lost one more hand. But now I’m recovered to around 800K.
Last minutes of late registration.
The average stack is 334K.
Blinds are 2000/3500/3500.
Some chipcounts:
Ali Fkih 955K
Edward Quinn 935K
Walid Bou Habib 920K
Mounim Kaddouri 770K
Philipp Wood 760K
Maxime Chilaud 650K
Nichan Khorchidian 550K
Georgios Skarparis 490K
Lyudmil Ivanov 770K
Eusebiu Jalba 800K
Anton Danilov 850K
Ran Ilani 550K
Andrey Pateychuk 330K
Roman Stoika 200K
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We are very close to a new record for the number of participants in Main Events in our Western Series. Or even in Poker Merit Classic events overall?
200/791
The last updates.
Nichan Khorchidian anf Anton Danilov are millionaires now. Both have around 1M.
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Mikalai Vaskaboinikau with a bigger stack and pocket ACES.
Hala Karam with around 220K and A-K in an all-in preflop.
On a flop A-7-2 Karam was drawing dead.
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It seems that Xiaosheng Zheng is a chipleader with around 1.5M. Around 10 players have 900K+.
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100 minutes more to play today.
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We are waiting for the prizes.
19.00 And here comes the prize money for our Main Event.There were 791 entrants.
There will be 103 players in the prize pool.
Minimum payout $4450
The finalist is guaranteed for 37.950
And the winner of the tournament will get 377.500
The prizes:
1. 377.500
2. 251.000
3. 180.300
4. 130.200
5. 94.600
6. 75.900
7. 63.200
8. 50.500
9. 37.950
10-12. 28.900
13-15. 23.440
16-18. 20.170
19-21. 17.985
22-24. 16.020
25-26. 14.055
27-35. 12.305
36-44. 10.560
45-53. 9.030
54-62. 7.505
63-71. 6.630
72-80. 5.760
81-89. 5.105
90-103. 4.450
20.00There is an interesting tournament at night – the only one of its kind at this series.
Full Title: Double Board Pot Limit Omaha 5 Bomb Pot $1100
What does it mean?
Well Pot Limit Omaha – that makes sense. All players are dealt 5 cards (not 4) and the rules of Omaha apply.
What does Bomb Pot mean? It’s that there are essentially no blinds in the first place. Each player bets an ante every hand.
Secondly, there is no preflop action.
And what double board means – you’ve probably guessed it by now – there is not one board, but two!
That is, you sit down to play, you are given a stack. Each player made an ante. You got 5 cards, and the dealer immediately puts out 2 flops. And only after that the action starts!
25 players in the game. 6 more levels of 20 minutes each you have to enter this event.