$3,300 Main Event Jour 3 | 2025 Merit Poker Carmen Series

2025-03-22 19:37 UTC+3

Tammel Chips Up With Trips

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Niveau 22 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Maher Achour raised from early position to 40,000 with Safi Haidar calling on the button, and Tarmo Tammel defending his big blind.

All three players checked the 8♠8♥6♠ flop to see the 2♥ land on the turn. Tammel led out for 65,000, which only Achour called.

Tammel fired 55,000 on the Q♠ river and Achour instantly called. Tammel tabled 10♦8♦ for trips and Achour mucked his cards.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Maher Achour	1,300,000 400,000	400,000
Tarmo Tammel	730,000 150,000	150,000
Safi Haidar	400,000 176,000	176,000

Tags: Maher Achour Safi Haidar Tarmo Tammel

2025-03-22 19:28 UTC+3

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Aleksandr Chernikov	Eliminé
Almas Umarov	Eliminé
Atanas Pavlov	Eliminé
Nerses Sargsian	Eliminé
Allan Sannier	Eliminé
Andrei Stoenescu	Eliminé
Vlado Banicevic	Eliminé
Andrei Daniliuk	Eliminé
Mantas Bagocius	Eliminé
Aliaksandr Smolski	Eliminé
Amir Mohammadi	Eliminé
Ming Xi	Eliminé
Anton Danilov	Eliminé
Rosen Apostolov	Eliminé
Qiang Xu	Eliminé

Bernard Boutboul	Eliminé
Yuan Xu	Eliminé
Ran Ilani	Eliminé
Petar Andreev	Eliminé
Radoslav Stoyanov	Eliminé
Aleksandar Tomovic	Eliminé
Aneris Adomkevicius	Eliminé
Damir Gabdullin	Eliminé
Antonios Poziadis	Eliminé
Luka Bojovic	Eliminé

Smolka Pays the Price For Big Shove

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Kai C

Niveau 22 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Dawid Smolka just made a big shove and paid a hefty price for it.

Leonid Orman opened to 40,000 from early position and a player in the cutoff called with a stack of around 900,000. Henrik Brockmann called on the button, then Smolka shoved 1,800,000 from the big blind. Orman thought for some time before he committed his stack of around 600,000, and both the cutoff and Brockmann folded.

Leonid Orman: A♠Q♦ All in
Dawid Smolka: A♦3♦

Smolka was looking for threes or diamonds but couldn't find much to work with on the 8♦8♣4♠ flop. A 9♣ on the turn brought some more chop possibilties, but the 7♠ was a brick, meaning Orman doubled up.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Leonid Orman	1,300,000 620,000	620,000
Dawid Smolka	1,200,000 1,095,000	1,095,000
Henrik Brockmann	400,000 450,000	450,000

Tags: Dawid Smolka Henrik Brockmann Leonid Orman

2025-03-22 19:21 UTC+3

BLT Good More Than Doubles With Queens; Pavlov Hits the Rail

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Niveau 22 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Ludovic Geilich raised to 40,000 from the hijack before Atanas Pavlov three-bet to 290,000 from the cutoff, leaving himself just 5,000 behind. BLT Good then jammed from the big blind for 790,000 total, and the action was back on Geilich.

Geilich asked for a count from the dealer and thought about the spot for a few moments. Eventually, he made the call with a covering stack to put both opponents at risk. Pavlov quickly flicked in his last T-5,000 chip, and all three players tabled their cards.

BLT Good: Q♠Q♥ All in
Atanas Pavlov: A♣J♠ All in
Ludovic Geilich: 10♠10♣

Geilich could move his stack up to close to 4,500,000 if he could spike a ten on the runout. However, the board came K♠9♠5♦8♣7♠, keeping BLT Good's queens ahead the entire time. Pavlov hit the rail, while BLT Good's stack increased to just under two million.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Ludovic Geilich	2,400,000 100,000	100,000

BLT Good	1,900,000 1,560,000	1,560,000
Atanas Pavlov	Eliminé

Tags: Atanas Pavlov BLT Good Ludovic Geilich

2025-03-22 19:09 UTC+3

Play Ends at the End of Level 24

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Kai C

Niveau 22 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

The players have been told that play will halt at the end of Level 24.

2025-03-22 19:04 UTC+3

Simon Sends Xi Home

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Kai C

Niveau 22 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Ming Xi's Main Event run is over as he just got eliminated by [Removed:553].

Nenad Dukic opened up the action with a raise to 45,000 from early position and Xi called on the button. Simon also called from the big blind.

The three saw a flop of 3♠9♦Q♣ where it checked to Xi, who fired out 70,000. Simon dropped in the call, and Dukic folded.

On the 4♦ turn, Simon checked once again and Xi immediately moved his last 125,000 into the middle. Simon snap-called.

Ming Xi: Q♦J♦ All in
[Removed:553]: 9♥9♣

Xi was drawing to a flush but couldn't find it as the 8♣ peeled off, sending him to the rail and giving Simon a stack of around 2,000,000.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
[Removed:553]	2,000,000 1,000,000	1,000,000
Nenad Dukic	1,550,000 50,000	50,000

Ming Xi	Eliminé

Tags: Ming Xi Nenad Dukic

2025-03-22 18:58 UTC+3

Ivanov Sends Xu Home

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Niveau 22 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

When it folded to Lyudmil Ivanov in the small lblind he shoved to put Qiang Xu all in from the big blind. Xu made the call for his last 120,000 and the cards were turned over.

Qiang Xu: J♥10♠ All in
Lyudmil Ivanov: Q♥7♠

Xu was slightly behind and needed a good runout to keep his Main Event hopes alive. The board came Q♣10♦6♥Q♠4♣, which improved Ivanov to trips, sending Xu to the rail.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Lyudmil Ivanov	700,000 560,000	560,000
Qiang Xu	Eliminé

Tags: Lyudmil Ivanov Qiang Xu

Niveau: 22

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 20,000

2025-03-22 18:42 UTC+3

Kolev Exits the Tournament

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Niveau 21 : Blinds 10,000/15,000, 15,000 ante

With everyone in the money now, Boris Kolev raised to 35,000 from middle position before Darius Neagoe three-bet to 90,000 from the hijack. When it got back to Kolev, he four-bet shoved for roughly 520,000 and Neagoe called.

Boris Kolev: A♥Q♠ All in
Darius Neagoe: A♠K♦

Kolev was out-kicked with ace-queen to the Big Slick of Neagoe, and wasn't able to find any help on the 9♠6♥7♠2♥4♠ runout. Kolev headed to the payout desk while Neagoe stack moved up to 1,400,000.