Mediterranean Poker Party 2024 – Massive Success in Cyprus!

Players from around the world came together on Cyprus for some great high stakes poker action. The Merit Royal Diamond and Spa Resort is as glamorous as it gets, and with hosting the MPP/EAPT Series for the second time in history, players were certain to get some juicy poker action lined up from May 2-12.

Photo Credits: Merit Poker

Online poker isn’t the only one peaking at the moment. Live poker is sizzling hot at the moment, with various events all over the world. The Mediterranean Poker Party (MPP), and the EA Poker Tour (EAPT) came together in Cyprus for a highly anticipated live event.

Big names such as Alex Keating, Fahredin Mustafov, Farrid Jatin, Fausto Tantillo, and Tom Bedell, all participated in other great poker tournaments.

With GGPoker being responsible for online qualifiers, many of young guns also joined in on the action. Names such as Michel Molenaar, Tom Talboom, Brendan Sheils, and Niall Farrell had great runs throughout the poker festival in Cyprus.

Well done to the entire organisation, staff, and all of the players. A great event, with smashed guarantees all over!

$1,100 Luxon Pay Mystery Bounty

The event kicked off with one of the most popular poker variants at the moment – the Mystery Bounty.

With 1,207 entries across multiple opening flights, a total prize pool of $1,2M was generated. Aleksey Savenkov emerged victorious as he dominated the final table by eliminating six out of the final nine players.

While Aleksandr Kirichenko didn’t make it to the final table, he was lucky enough to grab the highest bounty of $70,000. Unfortunately we do not have all information about the available bounties, but we can assumed that Aleksey Savenkov grabbed some much needed bounties alongside his trophy!

Rank	Country	Player Name	Prize
1st		Aleksey Savenkov	$85,000
2nd		Kirill Burtin	$57,800
3rd		Konstantin Generalov	$41,200
4th		Vadzim Godzdanker	$28,400
5th		Tamazi Skhirtladze	$21,200
6th		Ebrahim Ehghaghi	$17,100
7th		Damir Gabdullin	$14,300
8th		David Boyaciyan	$11,300

$10,400 MPP High Roller

Jovan Kenjic had yet another run in the sun, taking down the $10K NLHE High Roller. Where last week Kenjic managed to snag 4th place during the EPT Main Event in Monte Carlo for €340K, he now closed the deal in the best way possible.

It all began with a total of 159 entries, leaving just 33 of them for the final day, of which 23 would end up in the money. Molenaar started the final day as chip-leader, but was unable to seal the deal, leaving him finishing in 4th place.

While Kenjic and Kirichenko came into the heads-up with equal stacks, it was Kenjic who took the lead and after a few bumps in the road, managed to secure one of the most iconic wins of his poker career.

Rank	Country	Player Name	Prize
1st		Jovan Kenjic	$365,000
2nd		Alexander Kirichenko	$250,000
3rd		Marcin Dziubdziela	$165,000
4th		Michel Molenaar	$122,000
5th		Nikita Kalinin	$95,000
6th		Anvar Muratov	$75,000
7th		Dmitriy Zakharov	$58,000
8th		Stoyan Madanzhiev	$45,000

$5,300 Mediterranean Poker Party Main Event

The $5,300 Main Event was, without a doubt, the tournament to look out for. Despite uncertainties of the the $5,000,000 GTD being met, players weren’t disappointed as a total of 1,260 entries came in across several days of play.

Tom ‘Tom_Poker_NL’ Talboom, a Dutch online poker stream who now resides in Austria, shared his experience on social media, mentioning he was in for seven bullets in the Main Event. It didn’t look promising for him, but he eventually made it to the final day of the event. That is, until he busted out of the tournament against Leon Sturm, the commanding lead for most of the tournament.

Sturm, known for participating in all the high roller events around the world, was without a question the bookmaker’s favourite, but eventually hit the showers in 3rd place. The heads-up battle would ultimately be one between the qualifiers Lamkov and Shcherbakov.

The final table action was an absolute stunner of a show, where Lamkov often took the lead with some ‘Hollywood-Acts’. One hand in particular, he had had hit a set on the flop, and once he had send all of his chips to the middle on the turn, he walked away from the table, pretending he would go down on the river. Not sure what his opponents were thinking at the time, but drama got a new meaning at that point.

Lamkov, who qualified for the Main Event for just $125, crowned his epic run with a life-changing victory, resulting in a first prize of $1,000,000!

Rank	Country	Player Name	Prize
1st		Azamat Lamkov	$1,000,000
2nd		Kirill Shcherbakov	$680,000
3rd		Leon Sturm	$440,000
4th		Iurii Suvorov	$320,000
5th		Birger Larsen	$225,000
6th		Mihai Niste	$170,000
7th		Damir Gabdullin	$125,000
8th		Tleuzhanov Assyl	$100,000

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