WPT Prime Cyprus Bubble Boy Gets Revenge By Bagging Championship Chip Lead

The World Poker Tour (WPT) $3,500 buy-in, $2 million GTD WPT Cyprus Championship continued on Thursday with the second of three beginning flights. Day 1b attracted 173 runners, which, together with Day 1a’s 283, introduced the present discipline as much as 456 entries with another beginning flight to go.

Proper now, the prize pool stands at $1,413,000, which is wanting the $2 million assure. Nevertheless, with Day 1c anticipated to be the most important flight but, expectations are excessive that it’ll cruise by that mark.

After eight one-hour ranges of play, 78 gamers bagged with Mustafa Simsek – who, again in March, completed because the Day 1a bubble boy within the WPT Prime Cyprus – and his stack of 385,000 led the best way. That’s barely forward of Day 1a chip chief Alexsandr Pak, who bagged 379,000.

Simsek, who hails from Turkey, is well-positioned to keep away from changing into a WPT Bubble Boy for a second time, although he’ll have to attend till Saturday’s Day 2 to see how issues play out as the sector remains to be removed from the cash.

Prime 10 Day 1b Chip Counts

PlayerChips Mustafa Simsek385,000 Ersin Kadir309,500 Kurt Sahin308,000 Timothy Thorp288,000 Murat Kara270,000 Rafal Chmura253,000 Anton Herman237,000 Nicolae Jalba235,000 George Skarpis218,000 Lavrentiy Ni195,500

Others to punch their ticket to Day 2 have been Matthew Davenport (168,000), 2019 WSOP Predominant Occasion champ Hossein Ensan (140,000), Ray Qartomy (98,000), Dinesh Alt (71,500), Tudor Purice (61,500), and Chadi Saba (49,500).

For Davenport, he scored an elimination within the final stage of the evening. With the blinds at 600/1,200/1,200, the WPT Stay Reporting Crew noticed Rafael Wadl transfer all in for 40,000 from the small blind on a board of J♣7♥2♦3♠9♠ and about 50,000 within the center.

Davenport snap-called with the J♠9♥ for a rivered two pair, which was good as Wadl’s A♠J♥ had been outdrawn to ship him to the rail.

In fact, not everybody made it by means of. Amongst these to fall on Day 1b have been Will Kassouf, WPT International Ambassador Patrick Tardif, Junxian Du, Guo Liang Wei, Cameron Williamson, Nuri Kural, and Stefan Fabian. The excellent news is all of these gamers can strive once more in Friday’s Day 1c flight in the event that they so select.

The WPT Cyprus Championship, which runs by means of August 18, is the keystone occasion on the schedule for the $5 Million GTD Pageant on the Chamada Status Resort & On line casino. Right here’s a take a look at the remaining schedule:

2025 WPT Cyprus Remaining Schedule

*DateTimeEventGTDDetails* Fri 15 Aug12:00 pm$3,200 + 300 No Restrict Maintain’em – WPT Championship Day 1C$2,000,000 Assured Prize Pool50k stack, 60 min clock, 10 LVLS late reg Fri 15 Aug4:00 pm$1,000 + 100 No Restrict Maintain’em – Bounty ITM$100,000 Assured Prize Pool20k stack, 20 min clock, 8 LVLS late reg Fri 15 Aug11.59 pm$750 + 75 No Restrict Maintain’em – Velocity Up$50,000 Assured Prize Pool20k stack, 10 min clock, 8 LVLS late reg Sat 16 Aug12:00 pm$3,200 + 300 WPT Championship Day 2$2,000,000 Assured Prize Pool60 min clock Sat 16 – Mon 18 Aug5:00 pm$1,000 + 100 No Restrict Maintain’em – Thriller Bounty Occasion$100,000 Assured Prize Pool20k stack, 20 min clock, 8 LVLS late reg Sat 16 Aug11:00 pm$1,000 + 100 Satellite tv for pc to Chamada Tremendous Excessive Roller5 seats GTD15k stack, 15 min clock, 6 LVLS late reg Solar 17 Aug12:00 pmWPT Championship Day 3$2,000,000 Assured Prize Pool60 min clock Solar 17 – Mon 18 Aug3:00 pm$7,500 + 500 No Restrict Maintain’em – Chamada Tremendous Excessive Curler$300,000 Assured Prize Pool100k stack, 30 min clock, 10 LVLS late reg Solar 17 Aug8.00 pm$2,000 + 200 No Restrict Maintain’em – Final Likelihood$150,000 Assured Prize Pool30k stack, 30 min clock, 8 LVLS late reg Mon 18 Aug12:00 pmWPT Championship Remaining Desk$2,000,000 Assured Prize Pool60 min clock Mon 18 Aug3.00 pm$7,500 + 500 Chamada Tremendous Excessive Curler Remaining Day$300,000 Assured Prize Pool30 min clock Mon 18 Aug5:00 pm$1,000 + 100 Thriller Remaining Desk Solely$75,000 Assured Prize Pool20k stack, 20 min clock, 8 LVLS late reg

Day 1c will get underway at Midday native time on Friday. Late registrations will stay open till after the primary break (~2:15 p.m. native time) on Saturday’s Day 2. Gamers will begin with 50,000 stack, taking part in 60-minute ranges. PokerNews is on-site to supply content material, social media, and interviews, so remember to test again incessantly for all the most recent from the WPT Cyprus!

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