The Merit Royal Diamond Hotel Casino & Spa is hosting the European Poker Tour Cyprus series and all eyes are on the $5,300 buy-in Main Event, where we learned the final numbers yesterday. These are slightly lower than last year.
The Main Event brought in 1,284 entries and a prizepool of $6,227,400. 191 players were able to make it to the ITM, with a min-cash of $8,400 and $1,030,000 awaiting the winner. The unfortunate bubble-boy was Samuel Fournier.
144 players have advanced to today's Day 3, and all of them have already pocketed at least $9,100. The chipleader is Fahredin Mustafov with a stack of 920,000. Close behind is Ivan Zabiiakin with a stack of 915,000, and the top three are rounded out by German player Oliver Weis, who has a stack of 715,000.
Other names among the advancers are Lucien Cohen, Sebastian Malec, Artur Martirosian, Adi Rajkovic, Santhosh Suvarna, Benjamin Spragg, Niklas Astedt, Felix Schneiders, Adrian Mateos.
The game will start today at 12:00 local time and five 90-minute levels will be played. Play will start at blinds of 2,500/5,000/5,000, and you can also look forward to a livestream starting at 12:30 local time.
Source - PSLive, Flickr, Pokernews
