Ali Reza Fatehi Wins Merit Poker Top Gun High Roller ($108,516)

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The Merit Poker Top Gun series held at the Merit Crystal Cove Hotel & Casino on the northern coast of Cyprus wrapped up with an exciting High Roller and Main Event.

Event #23: $5,000 No-limit High Roller 8-max with a $125,000 guarantee drew 84 entries, which included 20 reentries. The $363,216 prize pool nearly tripled the posted guarantee, and Ali Reza Fatehi walked away with the lion��s share of the purse, winning the event for $108,516.

Fatehi, who played in the recently released televised PokerStars Championship Cash Challenge, busted onto the tournament poker scene with a third-place finish in the �100,000 Super High Roller in Monte-Carlo back in April 2016.

He followed up that performance with two final tables in back-to-back �25,500 EPT Prague High Roller events in December 2016 that resulted in fourth- and second-place finishes for over $133,000.

PokerNews�� Sarah Herring caught up with Fatehi before those big scores for a little interview, which you can watch here. The win in the Merit Poker High Roller is Fatehi��s first big score since that big year.

$5,000 High Roller Final Table Results

PlacePlayerPayout
1stAli Reza Fatehi$108,516
2ndDmitry Gromov$75,775
3rdAlf Martinsson$48,500
4thRinat Bogdanov$35,825
5thGeorgios Zisimopoulos$26,750
6thSeref Dursun Anar$21,300
7thUri Reichenstein$17,650
8thUnknown$14,000
9thAleksandr Chernikov$10,400
10thWalid Bou Habib$4,500

The $2,200 buy-in Main Event with a $350,000 guarantee attracted 228 entries and 143 reentries, bringing the total to 371. The $682,640 prize pool was nearly double the guarantee and the top 44 got paid.

While the top prize was slated at $144,630, a four-way deal that changed the payouts. Georgios Kapalas was the official winner of the event, taking home $79,365. The second- through fourth-place finishers actually won more money though, as part of the deal that was made before the tournament played out.

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Merit Poker Top Gun Main Event winner Georgios Kapalas

The next three all made over $90,000. Here��s a look at the top ten finishers in the Main Event:

Main Event Final Table Results

PlacePlayerPayout
1stGeorgios Kapalas$79,365
2ndGeorgios Manousos Sotiropoulos$91,180
3rdUnknown$99,020
4thMario Mosboeck$90,255
5thKaveh Pegahi$35,840
6thIvan Zhechev$28,670
7thStavros Kalfas$23,890
8thMohammadmahdi Hasani$19,115
9thAlexandras Rusinovas$14,335
10thMalikeh Sadat Razavi Jamali$10,445

Photos courtesy of Merit Poker

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