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Full Tilt’s Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event – Day 2
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2010-08-23 19:23
A total of 141 players returned to action on day 2 of
Full Tilt Poker’s Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event. Of these guys, only 45 remained after 7 grueling levels of poker and Manig Loeser grabbed the chip lead, with a stack of 337k chips.
Loeser started the day on a healthy stack and he never looked back. He kept building it methodically, without engaging into spectacular coin-tosses and without ever putting his tournament life onto the line. He forced people to fold hands in which they were pretty much pot committed and generally took down a lot of non-showdown winnings.
Much more spectacular bits of action were provided by Bruno Stefanelli and David Rheem, whose feud led to Rheem’s eventual demise. It was Rheem’s stack that gave Stefanelli the thrust to take him all the way into the provisional top 5 of the
poker tournament.
Given the more than impressive cast of characters which made it into day 2, it was inevitable that some big names should bite the dust before the day’s end. Sure enough, Day 1B large-stack Sorel Mizzi failed to make it through day 2. Joining him on the sidelines were Antonio Esfandiari, Carter Philips, and Michael Mizrachi.
Van Marcus and David Benyamine were luckier though. They made it through, together with Joe Cassidy, Andrew Feldman and John Dolan.
Play on the whole was rather unconventional on Day 2. Some players thrived, while others couldn’t handle the situation. Dominik Nitsche got into a coin-flip race with Onder Ozdemirler, having run his Q,Q into the latter’s A,K. A K landed on the board and Nitsche was done.
