2024 Merit Poker Western Series

$2,200 Warm Up
Day: 1bc
Event Info

2024 Merit Poker Western Series

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aj
Prize
$165,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,200
Prize Pool
$830,640
Entries
446
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
200,000 / 400,000
Ante
400,000
Players Info - Day 1bc
Entries
221
Players Left
107

Orphanides Gambles His Way to a Double Knockout

Level 6 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante
Stelios Orphanides
Stelios Orphanides

Muhammed Bozkurt raised to 3,500 under the gun and received two callers before Stelios Orphanides three-bet to 13,000 on the button. Ghassan Bitar called, but Jad Warde then moved all in for 50,000.

The table folded back to Orphanides who reshoved. "I'm going to gamble," Bitar said as he called off his last 30,000.

Ghassan Bitar: 7?6?
Jad Warde: A?Q?
Stelios Orphanides: K?J?

"I'm gambling too. We're all live," Orphanides said as the flop came 3?8?2?. The turn was the K? and Orphanides spiked his king to take the lead.

The 9? completed the board and Orphanides sent both opponents to the rail. "I had to gamble. A lot of dead money," he said.

Player Chips Progress
Stelios Orphanides
Stelios Orphanides
180,000
180,000
180,000
Muhammed Bozkurt tr
Muhammed Bozkurt
130,000
-40,000
-40,000
Jad Warde lb
Jad Warde
Busted
Ghassan Bitar lb
Ghassan Bitar
Busted

Tags: Ghassan BitarJad WardeMuhammed BozkurtStelios Orphanides