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The luxurious Noah’s Ark Deluxe Hotel and Spa located at Bafra, Cyprus, recently closed out the Golden Poker Million Cyprus Series. Headlining the action was the €800 Main Event €1 Million GTD. The event attracted an impressive 1,178 entries across six starting flights and had an action-packed nine-day run before crowning a champion in Andorra’s Antonio Saez Zamorano. Zamorano captured the title after a heads-up chop with Spain’s David Comeron.
Before the win, Zamorano had all but seven recorded live cashes worth a modest $14,152. With both Zamorano and Comeron chopping the top-heavy prize pool equally, the two finalists added €164,000 each to their bankroll.
Only 120 could survive through to Day 2 from the six starting flights, each of them assured a min-cash of €1,650. A total of 50 players progressed to Day 3 that ended with the formation of the nine-handed final table.
Miguel Moreno (10th for €10,500) made sure of that as he hit the rail on the final table bubble.
When the final table began on Day 4, there were players representing eight different nationalities vying for the title. Zamorano started the day in pole position with a stack of 29,875,000.
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Final Table Recap
The final table got off to a dramatic start with two players, Israel’s Shlomi Shimoni and Ukraine’s Vladyslav Pohribnyi hitting the rail in the very second hand of the day. Shimoni’s cowboys and Pohribnyi’s pocket jacks couldn’t ride past David Comeron’s pocket aces, and they bowed out in ninth and eighth place, respectively.
Comeron would claim his next victim almost three-and-half hours later. Once again, it was his pocket aces that got the job done against Switzerland’s Samiyel Duzgen, who had pocket eights and was relegated to the rail in seventh place.
Within just 20 minutes, Russia’s Alexey Romanov hit the rail in sixth place. Romanov’s all-in shove with king-five from the small blind found a caller in big blind Comeron who tabled ace-jack!
Soon, Turkey’s Seref Dursun Anar lost a big pot to Rusian Bakhtiev to become short-stacked. He ended up losing his tournament life to Zomarano with his versus . Anar was eliminated in fifth place.
Russia’s Ruslan Bakhtiev then found his cracked by Comeron’s and crashed out in fourth place.
Three-handed play went on for nearly an hour before Iran’s Milad Oghabian doubled-up through Comeron. But Comeron retaliated and with a vengeance. The hand in question saw Oghabian make an open for 2.2 Million, and Comeron 3-bet jammed, evoking a snap-call from Oghabian.
David Comeron
Milad Oghabian
Oghabian was ahead on the flop, but the turn paired Comeron’s hand, and with Oghabian failing to connect to the river, he was eliminated in third place.
When the heads-up play began, Spain’s David Comeron was towering over Zamorano’s 55 Million stack with a sizeable 63 Million. Zamorano soon took the lead, and minutes later, the duo halted play to strike a deal. The remaining prize pool was chopped equally for each to bank €164,000, and since Zamorano was leading at the time, he got to keep the trophy!
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*denotes heads-up deal
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