Main Event Day 2

Main Event Day 2
12.00

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

Level 10, 1K/2.5K/2.5K
And we have the first millionaire!
The story is provided by the chipleader of all 4 flights of Day 1 Ehsan Amiri:
“Everybody folded, a player on a small blind limped. I made 4x raise – 10K. He reraised me 32K, I called.
Flop rainbow 7♦️6♥️2♠️
He checked, i bet quater – 16K, he called.
Turn 7♣️
We both checked.
River K♣️
He bet 30K, and I jammed under his stack – around 170K. He tanked for a while and made a call with A♦️ K♠️. I showed 7♠️ 8♦️
Ehsan Amiri – the first from the left, the chipleader of the MainEvent.
15:00

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.

  16:00
And we have 700+ entries! What an amazing number!
By the way, today we are playing 8 levels.
The highlights of the last hour:
Karzan Hamarash raised utg 5500, Gregoire Auzoux from cutoff 15500, Soraya Estrada from the button 33000, Hamarash 5-bet allin 200K, Auzoux called with 100K, Estrada with a bigger stack also made a call.
Gregoire Auzoux K♠️ K♣️
Karzan Hamarash 8♥️ 8♣️
Soraya Estrada A♦️ A♥️
The board: K♥️10♥️7♣️ J♣️ 6♠️
Karzan Hamarash busted, Gregoire Auzoux trippled up to 340K, Soraya Estrada is down for 200K.
*****
Stefan Toderita with A♠️ K♥️ against Halil Tasyurek A♣️ K♣️
Allin preflop with 50bb stack.
The board: 9♣️8♣️3♠️ 4♥️ Q♣️!!!
Stefan Toderita is out and Halil Tasyurek is up to 270K.
*****
Grigorii Rodin with Q♣️ Q♥️ and 120K doubled up throught Mustafa Biz and A♣️ K♠️ in an allin preflop action.
*****
On the other table coin fliped on other side: Antoine Labaky with Q♦️ Q♥️ wasn’t good against Alexandru Lupuleac with A♥️ K♥️. Labaky busted, and Lupuleac has around 210K.
*****
And one more hand is provided to us by Ehsan Amiri, the chipleader of the Day2:
“I opened utg 6K, hj and button called.
Flop: K♠️9♣️3♣️
I bet 10K, only button called.
Turn: K♥️
I bet 22K, he called again.
River: J♣️
I bet 26K, he raised 137K. I made the call with A♥️ A♣️. He showed J♥️ J♠️
After this I lost one more hand. But now I’m recovered to around 800K.
*****
It seems that we have one more millionaire – Xiaosheng Zheng.
*****
Three levels behind. The players go to the break.
 
17:00

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

*****

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?

  18:00

200/791

The last updates.

Nichan Khorchidian anf Anton Danilov are millionaires now. Both have around 1M.

*****

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.

*****

It seems that Xiaosheng Zheng is a chipleader with around 1.5M. Around 10 players have 900K+.

*****

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

  20.00

There 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.

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