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Full Tilt’s Merit Cyprus Classic high roller event – final table set
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2010-08-22 00:09
The second day of Full Tilt Poker’s Merit Cyprus Classic high roller event saw an important milestone reached: the poker tournament played down to its final table. The interesting thing this about the situation was that not even all the final table participants were guaranteed a money spot. Only 5 would be paid, which meant that 4 final table participants would still end up with the proverbial wooden spoon.
24 players returned to action on day 2 of the event, with Full Tilt’s David Benyamine leading the final table charge. At the end of the day, the chip lead would change hands though, ending up in Perica Bukara’s possession.
Bukara had recently emerged as a true force on the international live poker scene. He had finished 14th in the
EPT Tallinn Main event just a few days ago and he appeared set on causing some serious damage in Cyprus too.
One of the notable eliminations of the day was Phil Ivey’s. The
Full Tilt Poker pro fell at the hands of Michael Mizrachi, when the latter hit a bottom set to send him packing during the first level of the day.
Even though he got off to a stellar start, Mizrachi would not make it among the 9 final table survivors either. He first dropped some chips to Carter Phillips on a busted bluff, then gave it all up to Perica Bukara in a hand in which the eventual chip leader’s pocket Js beat his A,K despite the ace which fell on the flop.
A notable survivor was John Dolan, a member of the November 9, who finished on a relatively healthy stack of 455,500 chips. Ziv Caspi will be the official short stack at the final table, riding only 103,500 chips into battle.
