$3,300 Main Event Día 2 | 2025 Merit Poker Carmen Series

2025-03-21 12:25 UTC+2

Gabdullin Makes the Right Call Against Van Rooij

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Nivel 9 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Merijn Van Rooij was left visibily stunned after a hand against Damir Gabdullin in the early goings of Day 2.

The action was picked up on the turn with the board reading 5♠Q♦3♣2♠ and with around 20,000 in the middle, Gabdullin checked from the big blind. Van Rooij the bet 14,000, and Gabdullin called.

When the 10♠ landed on the river, Gabdullin checked it over once more and van Rooij went for a little over a pot-sized bet of 60,000. Gabdullin went into the tank while he tried to piece together the puzzle, and after over a minute, he called.

Van Rooij then flipped A♠6♣ for ace-high with some blockers, and Gabdullin showed he rivered a pair of tens with A♦10♣ to scoop the pot.

As the pot was being pushed in Gabdullin's way, van Rooij looked a bit confused about what just happened, but regardless, his stack took a hit early on and he is down to around 70,000.

Jugador	Fichas	Progreso
Damir Gabdullin	350,000 92,000	92,000
Merijn Van Rooij	70,000 86,000	86,000

Tags/etiquetas: Damir Gabdullin Merijn Van Rooij

2025-03-21 12:23 UTC+2

Xu Sends Santamaria to the Showers

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Nivel 9 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Qiang Xu opened from early position to 4,000 and got two callers before Gerard Carbo Santamaria squeezed all in for 23,000 from the blinds. Xu put in another raise, which forced the two callers to fold.

Gerard Carbo Santamaria: A♥J♣ All in
Qiang Xu: A♠K♣

Santamaria was dominated, and needed to find a jack or he would need to make a trip to the rebuy desk before the end of Level 14.

The board ran out 9♦2♠6♠3♠5♦, keeping the Big Slick of Xu ahead the entire time. The pot was pushed to Xu and Santamaria was out.

Jugador	Fichas	Progreso
Qiang Xu	560,000 50,000	50,000

Gerard Carbo Santamaria	Eliminado

Tags/etiquetas: Gerard Carbo Santamaria Qiang Xu

2025-03-21 12:10 UTC+2

Shuffle Up & Deal

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Nivel 9 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Cards are in the air and play has started on Day 2 of the $3,300 Main Event.

Nivel: 9

Ciegas: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 2,000

2025-03-21 12:05 UTC+2

Delayed Start

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There is a slightly delayed start before cards get in the air for Day 2 of the Main Event.

2025-03-21 09:35 UTC+2

Carmen Zainescu Sets the Pace as Main Event Heats Up

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Day 2 of the $3,300 Main Event at the 2025 Merit Poker Carmen Series kicks off today at 12:00 p.m. local time, with 611 entries registered so far. After four starting flights, 302 players are set to return to the felt inside the luxurious Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino for the next chapter of this prestigious event.

Leading the charge into Day 2 is Romania’s Carmen Zainescu, who holds the overall chip lead with a towering stack of 748,000, good for 374 big blinds. She’s followed closely by Anthony Khouzami (616,000) and Ori Elul (610,000), both of whom are well-positioned to make deep runs.

The top ten features a truly international mix, including seasoned pros like Konstantin Voronin, Qiang Xu and Andrii Novak, alongside rising stars from China, Greece, and Russia. With stacks this deep and talent this strong, Day 2 is set for fireworks as the field starts to close in on the money.

Top Ten Chip Counts

Place	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Carmen Zainescu	Romania	748,000	374
2	Anthony Khouzami	Lebanon	616,000	308
3	Ori Elul	Israel	610,000	305
4	Konstantin Voronin	Russia	601,000	301
5	Hassan Nashar	Guinea-Bissau	585,000	293
6	Maxim Toldin	Russia	573,500	287
7	Amir Mohammadi	Iran	569,000	285
8	Spyridon Apartoglou	Greece	553,500	277
9	Andrii Novak	Ukraine	527,500	264
10	Qiang Xu	China	510,000	255

The final turbo flight, Day 1d, added 34 entries, with 19 players advancing to Day 2. Blinds will resume at 1,000/2,000 (2,000 big blind ante) for Level 9, and levels now extend to 60 minutes for the rest of the tournament. Late registration remains open until the end of Level 14, giving players six more levels to jump in before the field is officially locked.

Remaining Main Event Schedule

Date	Day	Time	Blind Levels
March 21	Day 2	12:00 p.m.	60 minutes
March 22	Day 3	12:00 p.m.	60 minutes
March 23	Day 4	12:00 p.m.	60 minutes
March 24	Day 5	1:00 p.m.	60 minutes

Stay tuned to PokerNews for live updates, chip counts, and all the action as Day 2 unfolds at one of the biggest poker festivals of the year!

Tags/etiquetas: Amir Mohammadi Andrii Novak Anthony Khouzami Carmen Zainescu Hassan Nashar Konstantin Voronin Maxim Toldin Ori Elul Qiang Xu Spyridon Apartoglou

2025-03-21 09:10 UTC+2

Day 2 Seat Draw

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Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Azamat Tulepbergenov	Kazakhstan	253,000	127
1	2	Alisa Sibgatova	Russia	199,500	100
1	3	Milos Skrbic	Serbia	214,000	107
1	4	Dmitry Zakharov	Russia	301,500	151
1	5	Andreas Mavrikioy	Cyprus	158,500	79
1	6	Aliaksandr Hirs	Belarus	248,500	124
1	7	Aleksandar Tomovic	Serbia	180,000	90
1	8	Bogdan Jontulovic	Serbia	75,000	38

2	1	Hady El-Asmar	Lebanon	151,500	76
2	2	Alexandru Papazian	Romania	459,500	230
2	3	Seyedahmad Haghgou	Iran	126,000	63
2	4	Dumitru Adrian Pora	Romania	89,500	45
2	5	Anton Danilov	Russia	331,000	166
2	6	Clement Pierre Michaud	France	170,000	85
2	7	Mikhail Zavoloka	Russia	339,500	170
2	8	Nerses Sargsian	Russia	37,500	19

3	1	Natan Chauskin	Belarus	273,500	137
3	2	Tomer Lahav	Israel	434,500	217
3	3	Alireza Akbarzadehbeshroyeh	Iran	67,000	34
3	4	Eimantas Adomavicius	Lithuania	176,000	88
3	5	Samuel Dray	France	184,500	92
3	6	Fredrico Senno	Lebanon	229,000	115
3	7	Kristaps Vismanis	Latvia	55,500	28
3	8	Charbel Salloum	Lebanon	192,500	96

4	1	Timor Margolin	Israel	203,500	102
4	2	Osman Nuri Aksu	Turkey	299,000	150
4	3	Nugzar Glonti	Georgia	378,000	189
4	4	Zhanbek Nugumanov	Kazakhstan	204,500	102
4	5	Felipe Fontoura Ketzer	Brazil	151,500	76
4	6	Hao Tian	China	203,500	102
4	7	Georges Chehadeh	Lebanon	128,000	64
4	8	Jakub Maciej Michalak	Poland	194,500	97

5	1	Florian Nicolas Guimond	France	264,500	132
5	2	Themistoklis Themistokleous	Cyprus	127,000	64
5	3	Chady Ojeli	Lebanon	22,500	11
5	4	Irakli Gavasheli	Georgia	70,500	35
5	5	Alexandru Cinca	Romania	107,000	54
5	6	Aleksandr Kirichenko	Russia	264,500	132
5	7	Samir Moukawem	Lebanon	193,000	97
5	8	Meir Batyrkhanov	Kazakhstan	236,500	118

6	1	Grigoriy Rodin	Russia	227,000	114
6	2	Sandra Cotescu	Romania	34,000	17
6	3	Soraya Estrada	Spain	364,000	182
6	4	Ramazan Akyel	Turkey	172,000	86
6	5	Marek Tatar	Slovakia	150,000	75
6	6	Vahid Moghaddam	Iran	76,500	38
6	7	Yilu Yuan	China	182,000	91
6	8	Luke Kyle Marsh	United Kingdom	105,000	53

7	1	Ramez Haddad	Lebanon	165,500	83
7	2	Fahredin Mustafov	Bulgaria	205,000	103
7	3	Shai Zurr	Israel	228,000	114
7	4	Andrei Daniliuk	Russia	71,500	36
7	5	Nicolae Paunescu	Romania	144,000	72
7	6	Stefanos Kechagias	Greece	189,000	95
7	7	Carmen Zainescu	Romania	748,000	374
7	8	Andrija Cvetkovic	Serbia	336,500	168

8	1	Merijn Van Rooij	Netherlands	156,000	78
8	2	Elena Yasyuchenya	Russia	71,500	36
8	3	Anthony Khouzami	Lebanon	616,000	308
8	4	Damir Gabdullin	Russia	258,000	129
8	5	Antonios Poziadis	Greece	172,000	86
8	6	Andrei Konopelko	Belarus	109,000	55
8	7	Oleg Svintsov	Russia	80,000	40
8	8	Evgenii Chernyi	Russia	123,000	62

9	1	Hassan Alie Nashar	Guinea-Bissau	585,000	293
9	2	Bart Lybaert	Belgium	91,000	46
9	3	Gerard Carbo Santamaria	Spain	33,500	17
9	4	Florian Duta	Romania	125,500	63
9	5	Abdelhakim Zoufri	Netherlands	200,000	100
9	6	Martynas Vitkauskas	Lithuania	82,000	41
9	7	Qiang Xu	China	510,000	255
9	8	Mantas Bagocius	Lithuania	282,500	141

10	1	Mikis Enokhov	Russia	93,000	47
10	2	Hala Karam	Lebanon	155,000	78
10	3	Georgios Tsoouloftas	Cyprus	337,000	169
10	4	Andrei Kanapelka	Belarus	70,000	35
10	5	Jovan Kenjic	Serbia	398,000	199
10	6	Darius Samual	United Kingdom	108,000	54
10	7	Andrei Stoenescu	Romania	180,000	90
10	8	Vitalii Pankov	Russia	212,000	106

11	1	Ghassan Bitar	Lebanon	351,500	176
11	2	Tudor Lazar	Romania	237,000	119
11	3	Jamie Dale	Ireland	281,500	141
11	4	Aytekin Yayla	North Cyprus	169,000	85
11	5	Kemal Aslan	Turkey	85,500	43
11	6	Vlado Banicevic	Montenegro	269,000	135
11	7	Alexey Losev	Russia	368,000	184
11	8	Petar Andreev	Serbia	294,000	147

12	1	Tahsin Alper Cankurtaranli	Turkey	93,000	47
12	2	Kyosuke Nagami	Japan	136,000	68
12	3	Stanislaw Grodek	Poland	44,500	22
12	4	Samuel Darkin	United Kingdom	70,000	35
12	5	Naji Azar	Lebanon	286,000	143
12	6	Umutcan Ipekoglu	Turkey	167,000	84
12	7	Ran Ilani	Israel	250,000	125
12	8	Danielle Noja	Lebanon	183,500	92

13	1	Danyel Boyaciyan	Turkey	108,000	54
13	2	Nikolay Ponomarev	Ireland	214,500	107
13	3	Andrey Litvinov	Russia	277,000	139
13	4	Emmanouil Fountoulakis	Greece	202,500	101
13	5	Henrik Brockmann	Netherlands	82,500	41
13	6	Nikita Kalinin	Russia	284,500	142
13	7	Cristinel Dumitru	Romania	86,000	43
13	8	Maxime Chilaud	France	426,000	213

14	1	Damien Gayer	France	78,500	39
14	2	Catalin Moraru	Romania	62,000	31
14	3	Radoslav Stoyanov	Bulgaria	207,000	104
14	4	Daniel Foldesi	Hungary	186,000	93
14	5	Tsemah Asulin	Israel	133,500	67
14	6	Yasen Dichev	Bulgaria	262,500	131
14	7	Razvan Sabau	Romania	284,000	142
14	8	Dawid Smolka	Poland	344,000	172

15	1	Krzysztof Spisak	Poland	58,500	29
15	2	Dylan Cecgowski	France	70,500	35
15	3	Anton Vinokurov	Russia	373,000	187
15	4	Orthodoxos Orthodoxou	Cyprus	74,500	37
15	5	Alessio Isaia	Italy	240,000	120
15	6	Roman Kolotiuk	Russia	288,500	144
15	7	Yucel Eminoglu	Turkey	235,000	118
15	8	Aleksandr Ivanov2	Russia	242,000	121

16	1	Aleksandar Jakovljevic	Romania	72,000	36
16	2	Florian Andre Jean Ribouchon	France	214,500	107
16	3	Yayun Liu	China	178,000	89
16	4	Pavel Ignatov	Russia	128,000	64
16	5	Marc David Foggin	United Kingdom	248,000	124
16	6	Amir Mohammadi	Iran	569,000	285
16	7	Vladislav Ivanov	Russia	74,000	37
16	8	Arni Gunnarsson	Iceland	160,500	80

17	1	Ming Xi	China	182,000	91
17	2	Iulian-Remus Blebea	Romania	301,000	151
17	3	Ori Haim Elul	Israel	610,000	305
17	4	Mario Colavita	Italy	251,500	126
17	5	Anatoly Zlotnikov	Russia	334,500	167
17	6	Yiannakis Papapetrou	Cyprus	129,000	65
17	7	Yuan Xu	China	364,500	182
17	8	Rashad Iskandarov	Azerbaijan	81,500	41

18	1	Kuljinder Singh Sidhu	India	416,000	208
18	2	Zero	Lebanon	249,000	125
18	3	Miad Shakiba	Iran	282,500	141
18	4	Nikolay Dimitrov	Bulgaria	202,500	101
18	5	Atanas Pavlov	Bulgaria	368,500	184
18	6	[Removed:510]	Moldova	113,000	57
18	7	Ughur Giyasi	Azerbaijan	145,500	73
18	8	Hilmi Tekin	Turkey	271,500	136

19	1	Siarhei Chudapal	Belarus	219,000	110
19	2	Sofia Merkulova	Russia	162,000	81
19	3	Pavel Shchitnikov	Russia	340,000	170
19	4	Kutay Taskin	Turkey	166,000	83
19	5	Murat Bayyurt	Turkey	122,000	61
19	6	Leonid Orman	Russia	159,000	80
19	7	Adem Marjanovic	Austria	425,500	213
19	8	Navid Samavati	Iran	219,000	110

20	1	Sergei Tikhonov	Russia	91,000	46
20	2	Humberto Galindo	Spain	295,000	148
20	3	Simas Karaliunas	Lithuania	170,000	85
20	4	Iurii Grigorev	Russia	239,000	120
20	5	Ran Azor	Israel	202,500	101
20	6	Ali Akbar Zebarjad	Iran	218,000	109
20	7	Hadi Khordbin	Iran	422,500	211
20	8	Ludovic Geilich	Germany	308,000	154

21	1	Mustafa Ercan	Turkey	138,500	69
21	2	Hani El Assaad	Lebanon	190,000	95
21	3	Oleg Netaliev	Russia	87,000	44
21	4	Guoliang Wei	China	204,000	102
21	5	Atilla Saracoglu	Turkey	175,500	88
21	6	Ramzi Karam	Lebanon	264,000	132
21	7	Aylar Lie	Norway	98,000	49
21	8	Ali Fkih	Tunisia	201,000	101

22	1	Boris Smuskevicius	Lithuania	138,500	69
22	2	Antoine Vranken	Netherlands	82,500	41
22	3	Sergei Varnaev	Russia	52,000	26
22	4	Aliaksandr Smolski	Belarus	191,000	96
22	5	Mihai Niste	Romania	99,000	50
22	6	Aren Bezhanyan	Russia	60,500	30
22	7	Dinesh Alt	Sweden	209,500	105
22	8	Alain Hajj	Lebanon	164,000	82

23	1	Andrei Spataru	Romania	349,000	175
23	2	Rui Querido Martins	Portugal	391,000	196
23	3	Aleksandr Razinkov	Russia	234,000	117
23	4	Vitaly Demyanenko	Russia	85,500	43
23	5	Walid Bou Habib	Lebanon	122,500	61
23	6	Ludovic Periaux	France	56,000	28
23	7	Joseph Mouawad	Lebanon	178,000	89
23	8	Lyudmil Ivanov	Bulgaria	100,000	50

24	1	Mark Helou	Lebanon	32,000	16
24	2	Vladislav Doroskov	Russia	184,500	92
24	3	Edward Quinn	United Kingdom	95,000	48
24	4	Darius Neagoe	Romania	140,000	70
24	5	Akin Tuna	Turkey	159,000	80
24	6	Elie Farah	Lebanon	68,500	34
24	7	Daniel Henriques	France	135,000	68
24	8	Andrey Pateychuk	Russia	118,000	59

25	1	Maher Ali Achour	Tunisia	388,000	194
25	2	Tymofii Savkin	Tajikistan	63,500	32
25	3	Naji Tannoury	Lebanon	373,000	187
25	4	Tarek El-Hachem	Brazil	180,000	90
25	5	Edgar Yamin	Lebanon	143,000	72
25	6	Vladimir Lipnitskii	Russia	212,500	106
25	7	Samuel Ju	Germany	430,500	215
25	8	Grzegorz Kozieja	Poland	190,000	95

26	1	Alexander Sokolovsky	Ukraine	128,000	64
26	2	Mario Menicanin	Bosnia And Herzegovina	504,500	252
26	3	Hakan Varol	Turkey	61,000	31
26	4	Daniil Kiselev	Russia	166,000	83
26	5	Igor Sharaskin	Russia	62,500	31
26	6	Ruslan Zainullin	Russia	151,500	76
26	7	Leonid Bozhkov	Russia	219,500	110
26	8	Lukas Pazma	Slovakia	450,500	225

27	1	Asaf Yehiel Groofi	Israel	273,500	137
27	2	Aleksandr Ivanov	Russia	130,000	65
27	3	Arkadiy Onikul	Russia	103,500	52
27	4	Bassel Moussa	Lebanon	188,000	94
27	5	Toni Kaukua	Finland	158,000	79
27	6	Yulian Kolev	Bulgaria	222,000	111
27	7	Tarmo Tammel	Estonia	190,000	95
27	8	Ivan Sakharov	Russia	92,000	46

28	1	Stefan Bittger	Germany	173,000	87
28	2	Timothy Kenyon	United Kingdom	139,500	70
28	3	Mehmet Demirkol	Turkey	265,000	133
28	4	Sebastian Veghinas	Romania	229,000	115
28	5	Vytautas Semaska	Lithuania	313,500	157
28	6	Azamat Rakaev	Kyrgyzstan	186,000	93
28	7	Tobias Peters	Netherlands	39,500	20
28	8	Stanislav Tishkevic	Israel	121,000	61

29	1	Zorlu Er	Turkey	199,000	100
29	2	Antonio Rutigliano	Italy	74,000	37
29	3	Niko Koop	Germany	56,000	28
29	4	Alexander Sazhinov	Russia	91,000	46
29	5	Michael Angelos	Cyprus	330,000	165
29	6	Traian Stanciu	Romania	78,500	39
29	7	Simeon Spasov	Bulgaria	139,000	70
29	8	Kostadin Kostadinov	Bulgaria	79,000	40

30	1	Arunas Sapitavicius	Lithuania	309,500	155
30	2	Benjamin Hamnett	United States	451,500	226
30	3	Anton Markov	Bulgaria	80,000	40
30	4	Luka Bojovic	Serbia	148,500	74
30	5	Allan Sannier	France	227,000	114
30	6	Dean Hutchison	United Kingdom	56,000	28
30	7	Nemanja Lukovic	Serbia	120,500	60
30	8	Adrian Sorel State	Romania	276,500	138

31	1	Kacper Pyzara	Poland	104,000	52
31	2	Paul Amsellem	France	179,000	90
31	3	Zhen Chen	China	166,500	83
31	4	Elias Abou Saleh	Lebanon	132,500	66
31	5	Michele Tocci	Italy	42,000	21
31	6	Miroslav Pantaleev	Bulgaria	153,000	77
31	7	Cedric Schwaederle	France	205,000	103
31	8	Gurcan Gungoren	Turkey	216,000	108

32	1	Dmitrii Astratov	Russia	171,000	86
32	2	Carlos Aoun	Lebanon	444,500	222
32	3	Andrii Novak	Ukraine	527,500	264
32	4	Mikalai Vaskaboinikau	Belarus	333,000	167
32	5	Konstantin Voronin	Russia	601,000	301
32	6	Mircea Flutur	Romania	133,000	67
32	7	Viktor Iarilov	Russia	257,500	129
32	8	Halil Zurnaci	Turkey	41,000	21

33	1	Giorgii Shkulukhiia	Russia	109,000	55
33	2	Nikolay Fal	Russia	19,500	10
33	3	Francisco Moreno	Spain	310,000	155
33	4	George Tomescu	Romania	212,000	106
33	5	Ahmad Abdelhadi	Canada	447,000	224
33	6	Nima Mohseni	Iran	191,500	96
33	7	Oleg Eltsov	Russia	100,000	50
33	8	Rosen Apostolov	Bulgaria	58,500	29

34	1	Dmitry Kataev	Russia	198,000	99
34	2	Peteris Enders	Latvia	205,000	103
34	3	Alfred Nader	Lebanon	196,500	98
34	4	Nenad Dukic	Serbia	176,000	88
34	5	Michel Molenaar	Netherlands	113,500	57
34	6	Vladas Tamasauska	Lithuania	170,000	85
34	7	Aneris Adomkevicius	Lithuania	56,000	28

35	1	Boris Angelov	Bulgaria	157,500	79
35	2	Farbod Nazari	Iran	196,500	98
35	3	Spyridon Apartoglou	Greece	553,500	277
35	4	Joseph Houayek	Lebanon	54,000	27
35	5	Boris Kolev	Bulgaria	508,000	254
35	6	Kirill Burtin	Russia	156,000	78
35	7	Safi Haidar	Lebanon	279,000	140

36	1	Zhao Cheng	China	221,000	111
36	2	Valeriu Rosca	Romania	266,000	133
36	3	Abdullah Al Shanti	Egypt	121,000	61
36	4	Aleksandr Chernikov	Russia	389,500	195
36	5	Alexandras Rusinovas	Lithuania	101,000	51
36	6	Tiberiu Catalin Tirca	Romania	165,000	83
36	7	Maksim Skripkin	Ukraine	216,000	108

37	1	Maxim Toldin	Russia	573,500	287
37	2	Viliyan Petleshkov	Bulgaria	233,500	117
37	3	Petar Kochev	Bulgaria	202,000	101
37	4	Konstantin Kvashin	Russia	78,000	39
37	5	Lev Margolin	Romania	239,500	120
37	6	Axel Hallay	France	362,000	181
37	7	Aleksey Cherkasov	Russia	262,000	131

38	1	Almas Umarov	Kazakhstan	105,000	53
38	2	Daniel Gavish	Israel	232,000	116
38	3	Elie El Ghassan	Lebanon	266,500	133
38	4	Edgard Raffoul	Lebanon	103,000	52
38	5	Clement Bonnant	France	118,000	59
38	6	Jingxuan Zhu	China	162,000	81
38	7	[Removed:553]	Netherlands	274,500	137

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