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2024 Merit Poker Dolce Vita Series

$2,200 La Notte Degli Assi
Day: 2
Event Info

2024 Merit Poker Dolce Vita Series

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
77
Prize
$355,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,200
Prize Pool
$2,084,720
Entries
1,133
Level Info
Level
40
Blinds
600,000 / 1,200,000
Ante
1,200,000
Players Info - Day 2
Entries
594
Players Left
210

Ermanno Pacini, Guillermo Gordo Lead the Pack After Day 2 of the $2,200 La Notte Degli Assi

Level 17 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
Guillermo Gordo
Guillermo Gordo

What was a packed house inside the Merit Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino on Day 2 of the Merit Poker Dolce Vita Series $2,200 La Notte Degli Assi became just 210 hopefuls still in the running to capture the trophy by the end of the day.

Ermanno Pacini began the day inside the top 10 on the leaderboard and kept up that momentum, ending the night with 1,697,000 and the chip lead heading into Day 3. Guillermo Gordo made a set of jacks to earn a bustout earlier in the day as he ended up right behind Pacini with 1,538,000.

Day 2 Top 10 Chip Counts

RankPlayerCountryChip CountBig Blinds
1Ermanno PaciniItaly1,697,000212
2Guillermo GordoSpain1,538,000192
3Tuval GarbiIsrael1,500,000188
4Asaf GroofiIsrael1,435,000179
5Iraklis ManikarosGreece1,329,000166
6Gregory LuttkeFrance1,327,000166
7Joseph ChoufaniLebanon1,321,000165
8Francois NajjarFrance1,250,000156
9Adrian StateRomania1,250,000156
10Alexander SavchenkoRussia1,246,000156

Iraklis Manikaros won one of the biggest pots of Day 2, hitting a full house holding two aces against George Rabahie. That pot pushed him above 1,000,000 and he bagged up 1,329,000. Adrian State and Maher Achour were seated right beside each other in the later stages of the day and were involved in one big pot where State seven-bet shoved for 533,000; both ended up as big stacks, State with 1,250,000 and Achour with 1,220,000.

Iraklis Manikaros
Iraklis Manikaros

Other top stacks include Merit Poker Western Series champion Mohamed Mokrani (1,107,000), Fausto Tantillo (1,069,000), start-of-day chip leader Abdallah Eddine (938,000), Raffaele Castro (858,000), and Edgard Raffoul (840,000). Omar Lakhdari (730,000), $1,100 IPO Master runner-up Candido Cappiello (696,000), and Selahaddin Bedir (568,000) also made it through the day, while Simone Andrian (434,000) and Kalidou Sow (173,000) will return tomorrow on short stacks with work to do if they want to make the money.

Players who had their run end on Day 2 include $1,100 IPO Master champion Danesh Zargaran, Danut Chisu, Cheng Zhao, Fabio Peluso, and Natan Chauskin.

More than 200 new arrivals on Day 2 pushed the field up to 1,133 total entries. The official prize pool has yet to be announced but blew past the $1,500,000 guarantee. The first order of business tomorrow will be to make the money before players can set themselves up for a run at the final table. The action on Day 3 picks up on Level 18 with blinds of 4,000-8,000 and an 8,000 big blind ante.

PokerNews will be back at noon local time tomorrow to provide all the live updates as the field pushes past the money bubble.

Tags: Abdallah EddineAdrian StateCandido CappielloEdgard RaffoulErmanno PaciniFausto TantilloGeorge RabahieIraklis ManikarosKalidou SowMaher AchourMohamed MokraniOmar LakhdariRaffaele CastroSelahaddin BedirSimone Andrian