Beim partypoker Merit Poker Classic auf Zypern ging es gestern bereits in den dritten Tag und zum Start vom vierten Tag haben wir noch 5 Spieler aus unserer Community im Rennen um den Titel und einen Siegerscheck in Höhe von $565.157.
Am Freitag kamen 149 Spieler von ehemals 649 gestarteten Teilnehmer zurück an die Tische und nach einem langen und spannenden Tag konnten nur noch 66 ihre verbliebene Chips eintüten. Die meiste Arbeit hatte hierbei der Russe Pavel Kovalenko mit 3.162.000 Chips, gefolgt von Pavel Plesuv mit 3.055.000 Chips und Kacper Pyzara aus Polen mit 3 Millionen an Chips.
Wie erwähnt sind noch 5 Spieler aus unserer Community im Rennen um den Titel. Die besten Chancen laut dem Chipcount hat derzeit Anton Morgenstern mit 1,2 Millionen an Chips, gefolgt vom Neo-EPT Monte Carlo Champion Manig Löser mit 1.044.000 Chips, Tobias Duthweiler (544.000), Chrisian Bauer (233.000) und Oliver Ruesing mit 94.000 Chips. Jeder der verblienen Spieler hat bereits einen Min-Cash in Höhe von $9.270 sicher, geplant ist heute bis zum erreichen des Final Tables zu spielen.
Die gesamte Action könnt ihr bei unsere Kollegen auf PokerNews im Live Blog verfolgen:
Anbei die Chipcounts zum Start von Tag 4:
| Name | Nation | Chipcount | BBs | Table | Seat |
| Pavel Kovalenko | Russia | 3.162.000 | 126 | 8 | 6 |
| Pavel Plesuv | Moldova | 3.055.000 | 122 | 4 | 4 |
| Kacper Pyzara | Poland | 3.000.000 | 120 | 5 | 3 |
| Elvin Sarkarov | Azerbaijan | 2.793.000 | 112 | 8 | 3 |
| Joey Weissman | United States | 2.494.000 | 100 | 3 | 2 |
| Selahaddin Bedir | Turkey | 2.383.000 | 95 | 6 | 5 |
| Boris Kolev | Bulgaria | 2.318.000 | 93 | 6 | 2 |
| Ludovic Geilich | Germany | 2.147.000 | 86 | 4 | 8 |
| Jacek Ladny | Poland | 2.125.000 | 85 | 3 | 8 |
| Andreas Christoforou | Cyprus | 2.000.000 | 80 | 7 | 1 |
| Uri Reichenstein | Israel | 1.800.000 | 72 | 4 | 7 |
| Kenny Hallaert | Belgium | 1.765.000 | 71 | 2 | 8 |
| Mustafa Biz | Turkey | 1.586.000 | 63 | 1 | 6 |
| Shahar Levi | Israel | 1.437.000 | 57 | 8 | 5 |
| Karwan Hasan | Iraq | 1.381.000 | 55 | 5 | 8 |
| Bassel Alanaz | Lebanon | 1.378.000 | 55 | 7 | 4 |
| Garik Tamasyan | Russia | 1.322.000 | 53 | 1 | 7 |
| Pavel Yakobson | Russia | 1.313.000 | 53 | 2 | 3 |
| Orhan Ates | Turkey | 1.275.000 | 51 | 1 | 2 |
| Anton Morgenstern | Germany | 1.200.000 | 48 | 3 | 6 |
| Daniel Braude | Israel | 1.079.000 | 43 | 2 | 1 |
| Manig Loeser | Germany | 1.044.000 | 42 | 2 | 4 |
| Ashkan Fattahi | Iran | 1.000.000 | 40 | 6 | 6 |
| Sergey Baburin | Russia | 982.000 | 39 | 2 | 9 |
| John Three | Israel | 979.000 | 39 | 4 | 1 |
| Dragos Trofimov | Moldova | 887.000 | 35 | 5 | 2 |
| Aleksandr Kopasov | Russia | 846.000 | 34 | 4 | 2 |
| Dori Yacoub | Lebanon | 810.000 | 32 | 8 | 4 |
| Assad Ramin | Afghanistan | 791.000 | 32 | 2 | 5 |
| Basem Abudavas | Kuwait | 778.000 | 31 | 5 | 5 |
| Andrey Pateychuk | Russia | 767.000 | 31 | 1 | 4 |
| Ulan Dzholdoshbekov | Russia | 759.000 | 30 | 3 | 7 |
| John Two | Netherlands | 747.000 | 30 | 4 | 5 |
| Basil Yaiche | France | 746.000 | 30 | 7 | 7 |
| Hasan Dogan | Turkey | 741.000 | 30 | 3 | 3 |
| Stoyan Obreshkov | Bulgaria | 724.000 | 29 | 7 | 6 |
| Nariman Yaghmai | Iran | 722.000 | 29 | 8 | 1 |
| Arnas Dzedulionis | Lithuania | 646.000 | 26 | 5 | 6 |
| Joep Raemaekers | Netherlands | 628.000 | 25 | 4 | 3 |
| Vladimir Troyanovskiy | Russia | 592.000 | 24 | 6 | 1 |
| Andrei Razov | Russia | 579.000 | 23 | 7 | 3 |
| John Four | Lithuania | 554.000 | 22 | 1 | 1 |
| Tarek Yassine | Lebanon | 550.000 | 22 | 8 | 8 |
| Tobias Duthweiler | Germany | 544.000 | 22 | 3 | 5 |
| Florian Duta | Romania | 516.000 | 21 | 6 | 8 |
| Albert Daher | Lebanon | 478.000 | 19 | 1 | 3 |
| Ben Farrell | United Kingdom | 463.000 | 19 | 5 | 7 |
| Vlad Darie | Romania | 460.000 | 18 | 6 | 7 |
| Daniil Kiselev | Russia | 449.000 | 18 | 3 | 1 |
| Milad Oghabian | Iran | 364.000 | 15 | 8 | 7 |
| Timur Khamidullin | Russia | 357.000 | 14 | 7 | 8 |
| Anatoly Suvorov | Russia | 350.000 | 14 | 5 | 1 |
| Moshe Refaelowitz | Israel | 345.000 | 14 | 2 | 6 |
| Lachezar Petkov | Slovenia | 303.000 | 12 | 5 | 4 |
| Hady El Asmar | Lebanon | 300.000 | 12 | 7 | 2 |
| Aleksandras Voisnis | Lithuania | 280.000 | 11 | 1 | 9 |
| Elie Farah | Lebanon | 271.000 | 11 | 1 | 8 |
| Kristen Bicknell | Canada | 270.000 | 11 | 2 | 7 |
| Ugur Secilmis | Turkey | 265.000 | 11 | 7 | 5 |
| Nikita Kalinin | Russia | 258.000 | 10 | 3 | 4 |
| Christian Bauer | Germany | 233.000 | 9 | 6 | 4 |
| Aleksei Istomin | Russia | 224.000 | 9 | 8 | 2 |
| Edgard Raffoul | Lebanon | 202.000 | 8 | 4 | 6 |
| Mehmet Kolgu | Turkey | 136.000 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| Oliver Ruesing | Germany | 94.000 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Hadi Khordbin | Iran | 90.000 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
Die bisherigen Payouts:
| Rang | Name | Nation | Preisgeld |
| 1 | $565.157 | ||
| 2 | $416.245 | ||
| 3 | $254.770 | ||
| 4 | $188.685 | ||
| 5 | $141.440 | ||
| 6 | $113.330 | ||
| 7 | $94.490 | ||
| 8 | $75.355 | ||
| 9 | $56.515 | ||
| 10 | $41.565 | ||
| 11 | $41.565 | ||
| 12 | $41.565 | ||
| 13 | $33.790 | ||
| 14 | $33.790 | ||
| 15 | $33.790 | ||
| 16 | $29.005 | ||
| 17 | $29.005 | ||
| 18 | $29.005 | ||
| 19 | $25.415 | ||
| 20 | $25.415 | ||
| 21 | $25.415 | ||
| 22 | $22.725 | ||
| 23 | $22.725 | ||
| 24 | $22.725 | ||
| 25 | $20.035 | ||
| 26 | $20.035 | ||
| 27 | $17.345 | ||
| 28 | $17.345 | ||
| 29 | $17.345 | ||
| 30 | $17.345 | ||
| 31 | $17.345 | ||
| 32 | $17.345 | ||
| 33 | $17.345 | ||
| 34 | $17.345 | ||
| 35 | $17.345 | ||
| 36 | $14.950 | ||
| 37 | $14.950 | ||
| 38 | $14.950 | ||
| 39 | $14.950 | ||
| 40 | $14.950 | ||
| 41 | $14.950 | ||
| 42 | $14.950 | ||
| 43 | $14.950 | ||
| 44 | $14.950 | ||
| 45 | $12.860 | ||
| 46 | $12.860 | ||
| 47 | $12.860 | ||
| 48 | $12.860 | ||
| 49 | $12.860 | ||
| 50 | $12.860 | ||
| 51 | $12.860 | ||
| 52 | $12.860 | ||
| 53 | $12.860 | ||
| 54 | $10.765 | ||
| 55 | $10.765 | ||
| 56 | $10.765 | ||
| 57 | $10.765 | ||
| 58 | $10.765 | ||
| 59 | $10.765 | ||
| 60 | $10.765 | ||
| 61 | $10.765 | ||
| 62 | $10.765 | ||
| 63 | $9.270 | ||
| 64 | $9.270 | ||
| 65 | $9.270 | ||
| 66 | $9.270 | ||
| 67 | Igor Ovcharenko | ru | $9.270 |
| 68 | Shaul Meir | IL | $9.270 |
| 69 | Saar Wilf | il | $9.270 |
| 70 | Mikhail Galitskiy | ru | $9.270 |
| 71 | Jeff Hakim | lb | $9.270 |
