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WPT Merit Cyprus Classic – Day 4 Report
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2012-08-09 10:58
Day 4 of the WPT’s Merit Cyprus Classic saw the final table reached. Only 18 players returned to action at the beginning of the day, so the organizers reasonably expected the field to play right down to the final table. While the objective was indeed accomplished, Day 4 had several surprises in store. For starters, start of the day chip leader Erik Cajelais, who had had an outstanding Day 3, failed to get anything going. He struggled from the very beginning, the close friendship he’d apparently struck up with Lady Luck on Day 3 a distant memory. He was eventually eliminated on the final table bubble.
The one who finished day 4 with the largest stack and the one who will lead the 6 remaining survivors into the final stretch of the
poker tournament was Ran Azor. Azor had a rollercoaster of a day, and fortunately for him, the final whistle came when he was riding a wave.
His stack of 2.4 million chips stands out by a head and a shoulder. Second place man Artur Voskanyan only has 2.03 million, almost a full 400k short of the leader.
The eliminations on day 4 took observers by surprise given how thick and fast they came. Walid Bou Habib was the one who flew out of the gates right away, eliminating Julien Ehrhardt and then bouncing Tolga Demierel after his A,3o got the better of the latter’s A,Ko.
Robert Mizrachi wasn’t particularly lucky either. He got it all into the middle with an A,K against Marvin Rettenmaier’s pocket rockets. A few hands later, he bit the dust after his A,10 was blown to pieces by Rettenmaier’s A,Jo. At one point, it looked like the action would wrap up way too soon.
Rettenmaier went on to finish 3rd with 2.03 million chips. The official short stack of the final table is Joseph El Khourym who only has 435k chips to his name. The other two final tablists are Kiryl Radzivonau and Victor Paraschiv.
