2024 Merit Poker Western Series

$3,300 Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2024 Merit Poker Western Series

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
99
Prize
$342,500
Event Info
Buy-in
$3,300
Prize Pool
$1,854,720
Entries
672
Level Info
Level
36
Blinds
200,000 / 500,000
Ante
500,000
Players Info - Day 3
Entries
129
Players Left
24

El Asmar Shot Down by Cowboys

Level 26 : Blinds 20,000/50,000, 50,000 ante

With two players seeing a board of A?Q?7? and roughly 800,000 in the middle, Hady El Asmar was all in for his last 210,000 from early position and called by Ermanno Di Nicola, who held a covering stack in the next seat over.

Hady El Asmar: 9?8?
Ermanno Di Nicola" K?K?

Di Nicola was in the lead with pocket-kings but El-Asmar made a flush on the 7? turn. The J? river brought in a bigger flush for Di Nicola to send El-Asmar to the rail while Di Nicola took down a sizable pot.

Player Chips Progress
Ermanno Di Nicola it
Ermanno Di Nicola
3,550,000
1,690,000
1,690,000
Day 3 Chip Leader
WSOP 1X Winner
Hady El Asmar lb
Hady El Asmar
Busted

Tags: Ermanno Di NicolaHady El-Asmar