Im Crystal Cove Hotel & Casino (Nord Zypern) läuft aktuell der $5.300 Merit Poker Classics Main Event powered by partypoker Live. Nach den fünf Starttagen Eins standen 508 Entries auf der Uhr, doch für die ersten vier Level am Tag 2 war noch die Late-Registration und der Re-Entry möglich. Mit weiteren 141 Entries am Tag 2 kam an auf insgesamt 649 Starts (438 Spieler + 211 Re-Entries) und es ging um ein Preisgeld von $2.990.267. Der Min Cash auf Platz 71 bringt $9.270 und auf den Champion warten satte $565.157. Am Tag 2 wurden sechs Level à 75 Minuten gespielt und am Ende konnten noch 149 Akteure ihre Chips für Tag 3 eintüten. Den Tag 2 hatten auch noch 14 Deutsche und fünf Österreicher in Angriff genommen. Überstanden haben ihn nur acht Deutsche. Auf der Strecke blieben zum Beispiel, Rainer Kempe (GER), Mario Mosböck (AUT), Julian Menhardt (AUT), Gerald Karlic (AUT), Daniel Prior (AUT), Josip Simunic (AUT), Oliver Krefeld (GER), Abraham Passet (GER), Hossein Ensan (GER), Niko Koop (GER) oder auch Akin Tuna (GER). Als bester DACH-Spieler darf Christian Bauer (GER) auf Rang 18 mit 774.000 (97 Big Blinds) übernachten. Den Chiplead hält der Russe Sergey Baburin mit 1.573.000 (196,5 Big Blinds).
Am Freitag geht es um 12:00 Uhr (Ortszeit) mit dem Tag 3 im Level 15 bei Blinds 4.000/8.000 (Big Blind Ante). Dann werden sechs Level à 75 Minuten gespielt. Der Average beträt 435.570 (54,5 Big Blinds).
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Hier sind die Chipcounts für Tag 3:
| Rang | Name | Nation | Chipcounts |
| 1 | Sergey Baburin | RUS | 1,573,000 |
| 2 | John Two | NED | 1,299,000 |
| 3 | Andreas Christoforou | CYP | 1,175,000 |
| 4 | Shahar Levi | ISR | 1,134,500 |
| 5 | Pavel Plesuv | MAZ | 1,066,500 |
| 6 | Shaul Meir | ISR | 1,006,000 |
| 7 | Karwan Hasan | SYP | 992,000 |
| 8 | Vlad Darie | ROM | 940,000 |
| 9 | Golam Lakkhosravi | 900,000 | |
| 10 | Zahi Youness | USA | 896,500 |
| 11 | John Three | 889,000 | |
| 12 | Florian Duta | ROM | 866,000 |
| 13 | Mehmet Kolgu | TUR | 854,500 |
| 14 | Mustafa Biz | TUR | 845,000 |
| 15 | Dragos Trofimov | MAZ | 814,000 |
| 16 | Charbel Salloum | 792,000 | |
| 17 | Sebastian Veghinas | 778,500 | |
| 18 | Christian Bauer | GER | 774,000 |
| 19 | Pavel Kovalenko | RUS | 761,000 |
| 20 | Elie Farah | 759,500 | |
| 21 | Denys Chufarin | 758,500 | |
| 22 | Elvin Sarkarov | 756,000 | |
| 23 | Daniil Kiselev | RUS | 749,500 |
| 24 | Aleksandras Voisnis | 727,500 | |
| 25 | Ben Farrell | GBR | 716,000 |
| 26 | Ran Azor | ISR | 706,500 |
| 27 | Nariman Yaghmai | 706,500 | |
| 28 | Anatoly Suvorov | 700,000 | |
| 29 | Boris Kolev | BUL | 688,000 |
| 30 | Vlada Stojanovic | 668,000 | |
| 31 | Freek Scholten | NED | 627,000 |
| 32 | Basil Yaiche | F. | 619,000 |
| 33 | Demosthenes Kiriopoulos | CAN | 601,000 |
| 34 | Ulan Dzholdoshbekov | 594,000 | |
| 35 | Ashkan Fattahi | 586,500 | |
| 36 | Fahredin Mustafov | BUL | 580,000 |
| 37 | James Romero | USA | 580,000 |
| 38 | Dimitrios Farmakoulis | 577,000 | |
| 39 | Bassel Alanaz | LIB | 577,000 |
| 40 | Manig Loeser | GER | 574,000 |
| 41 | Alexandru Papazian | ROM | 561,000 |
| 42 | Alain Zeidan | 560,000 | |
| 43 | Timur Khamidullin | 560,000 | |
| 44 | Kacper Pyzara | POL | 549,500 |
| 45 | Vanush Mnatsakyan | RUS | 549,000 |
| 46 | Arnas Dzedulionis | 547,000 | |
| 47 | John Four | 532,000 | |
| 48 | Andrei Boghean | ROM | 527,000 |
| 49 | Dmitry Gromov | RUS | 523,500 |
| 50 | Jeff Hakim | LIB | 516,500 |
| 51 | Uri Reichenstein | GER | 506,500 |
| 52 | Selahaddin Bedir | 506,000 | |
| 53 | Nikita Bochkin | RUS | 500,000 |
| 54 | Paul Newey | GBR | 498,000 |
| 55 | Vladimir Troyanovskiy | RUS | 490,500 |
| 56 | Hady El Asmar | LIB | 485,000 |
| 57 | Garik Tamasian | 480,500 | |
| 58 | Oliver Ruesing | GER | 473,500 |
| 59 | Hadi Khordbin | 456,500 | |
| 60 | Kiryl Radzivonau | BLR | 450,000 |
| 61 | Denis Timofeev | RUS | 440,000 |
| 62 | Albert Daher | LIB | 432,500 |
| 63 | Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy | RUS | 426,000 |
| 64 | Fady Kamar | LIB | 419,500 |
| 65 | Andrei Razov | 417,500 | |
| 66 | Pavel Yakobson | 413,500 | |
| 67 | Tobias Duthweiler | GER | 412,500 |
| 68 | Georgios Sotiropoulos | GBR | 404,000 |
| 69 | Ludovic Geilich | GBR | 399,000 |
| 70 | Imad Saab | 393,000 | |
| 71 | Arnaud Enselme | F. | 385,500 |
| 72 | Nikita Kalinin | RUS | 369,500 |
| 73 | Saar Wilf | ISR | 369,000 |
| 74 | Ryan Riess | USA | 369,000 |
| 75 | Anton Morgenstern | GER | 360,000 |
| 76 | Markus Prinz | GER | 350,000 |
| 77 | Ahmed Abdella | GBR | 346,000 |
| 78 | Joseph Sabe | LIB | 345,000 |
| 79 | Naji Tanuri | 344,000 | |
| 80 | Dori Yacoub | 344,000 | |
| 81 | Igor Ovcharenko | RUS | 336,000 |
| 82 | Levan Karamanishvili | SVK | 327,000 |
| 83 | Jacek Ladny | 327,000 | |
| 84 | Mikhail Galitskiy | RUS | 321,000 |
| 85 | Kristen Bicknell | CAN | 317,000 |
| 86 | Amir Touma | 310,000 | |
| 87 | Andrey Pateychuk | RUS | 308,500 |
| 88 | Santtu Leinonen | FIN | 307,000 |
| 89 | Basem Abudavas | 306,000 | |
| 90 | Maroun Jazzar | LIB | 305,500 |
| 91 | Stephan Woodhead | 293,000 | |
| 92 | Sergey Fedyaev | RUS | 292,000 |
| 93 | Jahanpour Amirsoleimani | 289,000 | |
| 94 | Ray Sumon | 287,000 | |
| 95 | Vytautas Milbutas | LTU | 287,000 |
| 96 | Moshe Refaelowitz | 285,000 | |
| 97 | Morad Qushqar | 285,000 | |
| 98 | Aleksandr Kopasov | 283,000 | |
| 99 | Tarek Yassine | 276,500 | |
| 100 | Daniel Braude | 273,000 | |
| 101 | Edgard Raffoul | 266,000 | |
| 102 | Assad Ramin | 265,000 | |
| 103 | Nejat Erman | 265,000 | |
| 104 | Georges Hanna | LIB | 264,000 |
| 105 | Orhan Ates | 253,500 | |
| 106 | Milad Oghabian | NED | 248,500 |
| 107 | Hasan Dogan | 245,500 | |
| 108 | Nikolay Fal | RUS | 240,000 |
| 109 | Joey Weissman | USA | 237,500 |
| 110 | Christian Rudolph | GER | 236,000 |
| 111 | Andrey Kaygorodtsev | RUS | 234,000 |
| 112 | Omer Cubukcu | 232,500 | |
| 113 | Ugur Secilmis | TUR | 221,000 |
| 114 | Maksim Bukreev | 212,500 | |
| 115 | Lachezar Petkov | BUL | 212,000 |
| 116 | Vicent Bosca | ESP | 209,000 |
| 117 | Przemyslaw Piotrowski | 205,000 | |
| 118 | Ran Ilani | ISR | 203,000 |
| 119 | Joni Jouhkimainen | FIN | 192,000 |
| 120 | Joseph Succar | 190,000 | |
| 121 | Maria Lampropulos | ARG | 184,000 |
| 122 | Etiennne Fortin | 176,000 | |
| 123 | Stoyan Obreshkov | BUL | 172,000 |
| 124 | Giorgii Skhulukhiya | 167,000 | |
| 125 | Joep Raemaekers | NED | 165,000 |
| 126 | Abdelhakim Zoufri | NED | 164,000 |
| 127 | Han Yong Kuo | 164,000 | |
| 128 | Nethanel Klein | 161,500 | |
| 129 | Slaven Popov | BUL | 161,000 |
| 130 | Dimitar Danchev | BUL | 161,000 |
| 131 | Maxim Lykov | RUS | 160,000 |
| 132 | Algirdas Saveikis | 154,000 | |
| 133 | Muhtar Taysi | 153,000 | |
| 134 | Aneris Adomkevicius | LTU | 151,000 |
| 135 | Vladimir Komissarov | 145,000 | |
| 136 | Igor Devkin | RUS | 144,500 |
| 137 | Bartlomiej Machon | POL | 139,000 |
| 138 | John Five | 137,000 | |
| 139 | Alexander Lakhov | RUS | 129,500 |
| 140 | Kenny Hallaert | BEL | 116,500 |
| 141 | Ori Miler | 108,000 | |
| 142 | Aristeidis Moschonas | GRE | 99,000 |
| 143 | Ramzi Karam | 97,500 | |
| 144 | Aleksandar Trajkovski | MZD | 94,000 |
| 145 | Anatoly Filatov | RUS | 93,000 |
| 146 | Steven van Zadelhoff | NED | 92,500 |
| 147 | Miguel Iglesias | ESP | 92,000 |
| 148 | Aleksei Istomin | RUS | 67,000 |
| 149 | Haghgou Seyedahmad | 64,500 |
Hier sind die Payouts:
| Platz | Preisgeld |
| 1 | $565,157 |
| 2 | $416,245 |
| 3 | $254,770 |
| 4 | $188,685 |
| 5 | $141,440 |
| 6 | $113,330 |
| 7 | $94,490 |
| 8 | $75,355 |
| 9 | $56,515 |
| 10 | $41,565 |
| 11 | $41,565 |
| 12 | $41,565 |
| 13 | $33,790 |
| 14 | $33,790 |
| 15 | $33,790 |
| 16 | $29,005 |
| 17 | $29,005 |
| 18 | $29,005 |
| 19 | $25,415 |
| 20 | $25,415 |
| 21 | $25,415 |
| 22 | $22,725 |
| 23 | $22,725 |
| 24 | $22,725 |
| 25 | $20,035 |
| 26 | $20,035 |
| 27 | $17,345 |
| 28 | $17,345 |
| 29 | $17,345 |
| 30 | $17,345 |
| 31 | $17,345 |
| 32 | $17,345 |
| 33 | $17,345 |
| 34 | $17,345 |
| 35 | $17,345 |
| 36 | $14,950 |
| 37 | $14,950 |
| 38 | $14,950 |
| 39 | $14,950 |
| 40 | $14,950 |
| 41 | $14,950 |
| 42 | $14,950 |
| 43 | $14,950 |
| 44 | $14,950 |
| 45 | $12,860 |
| 46 | $12,860 |
| 47 | $12,860 |
| 48 | $12,860 |
| 49 | $12,860 |
| 50 | $12,860 |
| 51 | $12,860 |
| 52 | $12,860 |
| 53 | $12,860 |
| 54 | $10,765 |
| 55 | $10,765 |
| 56 | $10,765 |
| 57 | $10,765 |
| 58 | $10,765 |
| 59 | $10,765 |
| 60 | $10,765 |
| 61 | $10,765 |
| 62 | $10,765 |
| 63 | $9,270 |
| 64 | $9,270 |
| 65 | $9,270 |
| 66 | $9,270 |
| 67 | $9,270 |
| 68 | $9,270 |
| 69 | $9,270 |
| 70 | $9,270 |
| 71 | $9,270 |
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