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Full Tilt’s Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event – Day 1B
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2010-08-23 19:07
Organizers hopes for getting more players to belly up to the tables of the Merit Cyprus Classic’s Main Event were dashed as only 71 players showed up for the second and final day 1 flight. Still, the number of big poker names present in the field made up for the partial disappointment.
Only 11 players were eliminated after 5 levels of Day 1B action, which means that exactly 60 will move on to day 2 to combine with the 80 players who survived the first day 1 flight.
John Dolan was the one who ran the show on Day 1B. The November Nine member had had a pretty good run in the high rollers event too, where he fell short of the money in the end nonetheless. In the Main Event though, he seemed to be set to achieve far greater things. His 95,400 end of the day stack certainly gives him the right to hope for more.
Another player who had an excellent Day 1B run was Sorel Mizzi. Mizzi had held the chip lead for most of the day, and at the end of it, he finished with a stack of more than 90k chips. Manig Loeser had also managed to build a large stack, his 91,550 second only to John Dolan’s pack-leading haul.
The selection of pros who took part in the day 1B action (and who all managed to move on) was indeed impressive. Antonio Esfandiari was there, together with Jennifer Lee, Joe Cassidy, Carter Phillips and Sam Trickett.
Perica Bukara, winner of the high roller event, was late to show up and so were the rest of the players who made it deep in the aforementioned event. They all survived day 1B too.
