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Day 2
On Day 2 of the Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event, Manig Loeser finished with the big stack at 337,000 chips. Other players over 200,000 chips at the end of the day included Chris Karagulleyan, Kerem Kiyak, Zsolt Vasvenszki, Bruno Stefanelli, Onder Ozdemirler, Mathieu Clavet, and Kursat Bayrakci. Several big name poker players were eliminated, including Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, Chino Rheem, Sam Trickett, John Racener, Nicolas Chouity, Chip Jett, Karina Jett, Sorel Mizzi, and Jean-Robert Bellande. Nicolas Chouity started out as top of both combined fields and ended up busted by the end of the night.
Only 46 of 141 players survived Day 2.

Highlights of Day 2:

Carter Phillips was able to double up on the first hand, moving to nearly 20,000 chips. David Benyamine doubled up at the expense of Saltuk Soran. Dominik Nitsche doubled up through Alexey Rybin. Chris Cellery lost big to Full Tilt Pro Van Marcus, whose stack grew to about 132,000 chips after Cellery’s flush never came and he lost to Marcus’ set of nines. Mustafa Meryumoglu took out EPT title and a WSOP bracelet holder Carter Phillips. November Niner John Dolan made it through the day. Van Marcus took an opponent out in a sizeable hand that brought Marcus to the front of the pack at 228,000 chips. Top two stacks Van Marcus (212,000) and Roy Yaacoub (165,000) were seated at a table with day 1 chip leader Nicolas Chouity. In an odd hand, Chouity, wearing headphones, thought action remained on his opponent, Hakan Kuscu, who had verbally announced he was all-in. The timer was in fact running on Chouity and the floorman counted Chouity’s hand dead. The surprised Chouity petitioned the tournament director who decided the hand was still live, with action on Chouity, who called. Kuscu won the hand with quad nines and Chouity was eliminated. Manig Loeser took the chip lead through a hand with John Dolan, topping up to 270,000 chips. Chino Rheem was the chip leader at one time on day 2 but was busted by Bruno Stefanelli late in the day. Stefanelli’s win brought him to about 250,000 chips. Late on day 2, Foivos Pettas eliminated Ori Miller, who took second in the High Roller Freeze-Out. Onder Ozdemirler re-raised Dominik Nitsche’s pre-flop raise of 4,500 to 150,000 and Nitsche called all in for about 116,000 and was eliminated when Ozdemirler’s kings topped Nitsche’s pocket queens.

Day 3

On Day 3 of the Main Event, 45 players were whittled down to just 18. Mathieu Clavet was the chip leader at the end of Day 3 with 650,000 chips. Well known players who made it through Day 3 include Day 2 chip leader Manig Loeser (who dropped some chips along the way), David Benyamine, Full Tilt pro Van Marcus, Kelly Kim, Eric Mizrachi, Jeff Hakim, and Mathieu Clavet.

Highlights of Day 3:

lmaz Oguz went all-in pre-flop and November Niner John Nolan, with a stack of 58,700 called and won with pocket jacks to double up to 125,000 chips. David Benyamine doubled through Kelly Kim and made trouble for Van Marcus in two hands- first when he beat Marcus with jack high and later when Benyamine bet Marcus down with pocket queens. Eric Mizrachi doubled through Zsolt Vasvenszki to raise Mizrachi’s stack to 180,000 chips. Rob Peltekci fell in two consecutive big hands, losing 168,000 to Kfir Yamin and then the rest to Van Marcus on the very next hand.

Day 4

At the end of Day 4, Zsolt Vasvenszki was the chipleader of the Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyrus Classic Main Event with 1,885,000 chips. Popular players who were eliminated included Kelly Kim, David Benyamine, Day 2 chip leader Manig Loeser, Eric Mizrachi, and Jeff Hakim.

Highlights of Day 4:

Early on day 4, David Benyamine ended up short after losing to Chris Karagulleyan, then doubled up through Kfir Yamin. Benyamine went on to eliminate Yilmaz Oguz. Eric Mizrachi was the first to be eliminated on day 4, losing with pocket fours to Kfir Yamin’s pair of queens. Jeff Hakim doubled to 281,000 through Kfir Yamin. Martin Loeser eliminated Kelly Kim when Loeser’s pocket queens beat Kim’s pocket tens. Zsolt Vasvenszki started the day in second place and quickly grew his chip stack. Vasvenszki eliminated Kfir Yamin with a better ace that lifted Vasvenszki’s stack to 870,000, then gained even more chips through David Benyamine to lead the pack with 940,000. The chip leader then eliminated Jeff Hakim when Hakim’s pocket twos fell to Vasvenszki’s pair of kings. Andreas Krause eliminated Manig Loeser when Loeser went all in pre-flop. Krause held pocket eights while Loeser had pocket queens. Krause hit his trips on the flop and Loeser was sent home. Benyamine was slowly chopped down, losing to Chris Karagulleyan and then again to Nanos Koustantinos, leaving Benyamine with only 59,000 chips. Shortly thereafter, Benyamine earned a full house on the river and beat Kari Somer to bring Benyamine up to 135,000. Somer then went on to eliminate Benyamine later on day 4. Zsolt Vasvenszki knocked out Chris Karagulleyan to bring the pool down to the final ten players.1 Mathieu Clavet then took out Foivos Pettas, and then Van Marcus eliminated Kari Somer. Marcus eliminated Geroges Hanna and, after Zsolt Vasvenszki doubled Andreas Krause to over 900,000, Marcus took the chip lead, his 1,480,000 ahead of Vasvenszki’s 1,350,000. Vasvenszki later eliminated Nanos Koustantinos to end the day as the chip leader with 1,885,000 chips.

Day 5

On Day 5, at the final table of the Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyrus Classic Main Event, Andreas Krause defeated Mathieu Clavet to win the Main Event and capture $415,780 in winnings. Krause was only one of 181 players in the Main Event, but he managed to be the final player seated, gathering 5,795,000 chips and the win.

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Perica Bukara came out victorious in the $25,000 High Roller Freeze-Out event at the 2010 Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic and walked away with a cool $373,207 in prize money at just past 5:30 a.m. in Cyprus (10:30 p.m. EST).

David Benyamine led the Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic High Roller event at the end of day one.1

By end of day two, however, Bukara had taken over, having been dominant with big pre and post flop bets.2 With the group down to nine players and only the top five spots getting paid, here is how things looked going into day three:

Chip Counts for day 3 of the $25,000 High Roller Freeze-Out:
1 Perica Bukara 951,700
2 Ori Miller 546,000
3 John Dolan 455,500
4 Carter Phillips 401,600
5 David Benyamine 400,300
6 Andrew Feldman 356,000
7 Jon Turner 197,700
8 Sam Trickett 188,200
9 Ziv Caspi 103,500

Seats for day 3 of the $25,000 High Roller Freeze-Out:

Seat 1: Ziv Caspi – 103,500
Seat 2: David Benyamine – 400,300
Seat 3: John Dolan – 455,500
Seat 4: Perica Bukara – 951,700
Seat 5: Andrew Feldman – 356,000
Seat 6: Sam Trickett – 188,200
Seat 7: Ori Miller – 546,000
Seat 8: Jon Turner – 197,700
Seat 9: Carter Phillips – 401,600

On day three, Bukara rode his stack through the day and went on to win the event. The night of Friday, August 20, action whittled down to Bukara,3 Ori Miller,4 and Andrew Feldman.5 Bukara, a native of Serbia who now lives in Germany, lost the lead only once, when play was down to just him and Ori Miller. There was interesting action late between the relatively unknown Miller and Londoner Feldman (a Full Tilt pro). While only three players remained, Miller and Feldman traded places on consecutive hands. Later, Feldman was down to a very small stack and tripled, then doubled up twice. He wasn’t able to hang in there though and was eventually eliminated by Miller.

Miller took his only lead on a fold by Bukara at 9 p.m. EST. Shortly thereafter, the two remaining players came dead even at 10:21 p.m. EST. But by 10:30 p.m. (5:30 a.m. Cyprus time), it was all over. Bukara had eliminated Miller to win the $25,000 High Roller Freeze-Out event.

Final Payouts:

1. Perica Bukara $373,207

2. Ori Miller $207,337

3. Andrew Feldman $124,402

4. David Benyamine $82,935

5. Jon Turner $41,467

A look ahead to the Full Tilt Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event:

On day 1A of the Main Event (Friday, August 20), over 100 players showed up to try their hands at the tables, which made day one more popular than last year’s entire event. Notable players who made it to day one included Nicolas, Chouity, Chip Jett, Dave Colclough, Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, Tommy Vedes, Chino Rheem, Van Marcus, Kelly Kim, Huseyin Yilmaz, and Julian Gardner. Vedes, Gardner, and Yilmaz were eliminated on day one, the other notables mentioned continued on to the next round of play.

At the end of day 1A, the top chip stacks were:
1 Nicolas Chouity 119,600
2 Alexey Rybin 104,325
3 Hulya Pehlivanlar 95,000
4 Nanos Koustantinos 94,650
5 Aineas Protopapas 82,000
6 Chip Jett 80,750
7 Tamer Ustaoglu 78,250
8 Musa Gunay 78,025
9 Iliodoros Kamatakis 76,175
10 Kevin O’Donnell 74,650

Top chip stacks from day 1B (Saturday, August 21):
1 John Dolan 95,400
2 Manig Loeser 91,550
3 Sorel Mizzi 90,225
4 Sam Trickett 70,000
5 Rob Peltecki 60,000
6 Karina Jett 58,000
7 Andrew Feldman 57,000
8 Andrew Gulyy 52,000
9 Ori Miller 50,000
10 Jeff Hakim 49,000

Action continues on Sunday, August 22 at 2 p.m. Cyprus time (7 a.m. EST) when the remaining 140 players will battle for a place at the Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event final table.

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Filippo Candio is an Italian born professional poker player, Candio is 26 years old and part of November nine in the 2010 World Series of Poker Championship in Las Vegas. Candio got his start in live tournament action because it’s the only way legally in his country. Filippo Candio is actually considered a villain by some as he enters the finals, in fact one online site would not even sponsor him because of excessive table celebrations and his proud Italian exclamations angering some players and fans. Candio at times does not seem to care about etiquette and sportsmanship and folks always let him know about it. He has reason to be proud though he is the first player from Italy to make it to to the final table making history.