WPT Govt Tour Director, Matt Savage, has been spending time with perpetual poker unhealthy boys Will Kassouf and Martin Kabrhel on the WPT Cyprus Championship.
Apparently, the poker neighborhood has it flawed and so they’re each loads totally different from what their public picture would recommend.
In the present day noticed the beginning of the $3,500 buy-in, $2 million GTD WPT Cyprus Championship on the Chamada Status Resort & On line casino.
Loads of well-known faces have been current on the on line casino however none extra so than the pair of characters who had the poker media scribbling for a lot of the WSOP 2025.
Would they behave? Matt Savage was adamant that they might, and after spending 90 minutes with Kabrhel and a few hours with Kassouf, he thinks we’ve bought all of them flawed.
I have to actually be into ache, 90 minutes with @MartinKabrhell and now 2 hours with @WilliamKassouf.
Evaluation: Each are far more nice than they seem on the poker desk. pic.twitter.com/iA6c37LfW6
— Matt Savage (@SavagePoker) August 12, 2025
After all, this situation is widespread with characters we all know from our screens and newspapers; folks actually do are inclined to say that whoever is far nicer than they anticipated once they meet them, on common.
Phil Hellmuth upsets many along with his frequent outbursts however those that actually know him swear that he’s the nicest particular person you can ever meet away from poker.
Or on this case, VERY totally different
— Matt Savage (@SavagePoker) August 13, 2025
Not all people was believing Savage, although. There have been loads of naysayers saying they don’t care what they’re like behind closed doorways; they solely care concerning the unfavorable interactions on the poker desk.
The primary hour I spent explaining why he wouldn’t be capable to act like a jackass right here at @WPT Cyprus.
— Matt Savage (@SavagePoker) August 13, 2025
We are able to solely hope that Will Kassouf has realized his lesson and won’t be repeating any of the behaviour that soured the ultimate days of the WSOP 2025 Major Occasion.
Alexsandr Pak Leads the Method on Day 1a
It was Uzbekistan’s Aleksandr Pak who bagged up the most important stack on the finish of play on Day 1a, the primary of three beginning flights.
There have been 283 entries within the pot after eight hours of play, and 127 gamers survived to make it by to Day 2.
Pak ended the day with 379,000 chips, carefully adopted by Turkey’s Furkan Yavuz (358,500).
Omar Lakhdari (169,000), winner of WPT Prime Cyprus, and WPT Prime Paris champion Hugues Girard (139,000) additionally made it by to Day 2.
WPT Commentator Tony Dunst was one other well-known face who made it by in the present day, telling the media that his desk was extraordinarily lively.
WPT International Ambassador Romulo Dorea was the winner of what was most likely the hand of the day after discovering himself in a four-way all-in scenario.
Holding J♥ J♦, Dorea needed to cope with Chiboub Abdelmajid’s A♦ Ok♠, Ingles Garcia’s Q♥ Q♣, and the 10♠10♣ of Andreas Christodolou.
When the board ran out 9♠7♠2♣ Ok♣, it appeared prefer it was throughout, however the J♠river handed Dorea a pot of 278 massive blinds and he ended the day seventh in chips.
Extremely, there was one other four-way all-in later within the night time, simply earlier than bagging up time.
Adrian Govea Quevedo discovered himself staring a late exit within the face with A♠Q♠. He was up in opposition to Q♥ Q♣ A♥ Ok♣ and 6♠6♣.
However the board got here down Ok♥ J♣ 10♣ 10♦ J♥ and Quevedo picked up a pot of 18 massive blinds. Furkan Yavuz’s ace-king picked up the a lot larger facet pot of 351 massive blinds.
