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WPT Merit Cyprus Classic – Day 3 Report
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2012-08-09 04:06
53 players returned to the tables on the 3rd day of the WPT’s Merit Cyprus Classic. A total of four levels of action went into the day, each of them 90 minutes long. At the end of it all, 18 players were left in contention, with Erik Cajelais leading the way. Cajelais managed to build a stack of 1.1 million chips to grab the top spot.
Cajelais’ day was a combination of luck and skill, all working in his favor and making him virtually unstoppable at the green felt. With a WSOP bracelet already on his belt, Cajelais is definitely not the inexperienced kind of player either.
At one point during the day, he had a lot riding on a 7s, 4s. He hit a spade flush on the river to bring the pot home. That hand resulted in Oleksii Kovalchuk’s elimination too. Cajelais made another risky move a bit later, when Mansour Khorramshani pushed all-in on a flop of Ah, Jc, 10h and he made the call with a Kh, 2h. Needless to say, the turn was another heart and the pot found its way into Cajelais stack.
He then managed to make the best of a perfect hand too, when he picked up pocket rockets against Oleg Shepelenko’s pocket Ks. Obviously, there was no way Shepelenko would get away from the trap.
While was undeniable lucky through the day, Cajelais skillfully maneuvered himself into positions where he could take full advantage of whatever Lady Luck decided to throw his way.
Day 3 of the event reached and then rolled past a major landmark: the money bubble. The bubble burst around halfway through the day, when Germany’s Marko Neumann committed the last of his chips and then dropped them all to Kemel Sevevi and his pocket rockets to become the official bubble-boy of the
poker tournament.
Other players who made it through the day on decent stacks were Sam El Sayed and Robert Mizrachi. Marvin Rettenmaier survived as well.
