Main Event
Day 3 Started
2017 PokerStars Festival Sochi
Main Event
Day: 3
Full Chip Counts (full)
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| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,599,000 | |
|
1,293,000 | |
|
|
1,260,000 | |
|
|
1,236,000 | |
|
1,106,000 | |
|
875,000 | |
|
|
873,000 | |
|
869,000 | |
|
|
867,000 | |
|
|
853,000 | |
|
|
815,000 | |
|
|
797,000 | |
|
|
772,000 | |
|
|
750,000 | |
|
|
734,000 | |
|
|
641,000 | |
|
604,000 | |
|
|
595,000 | |
|
|
576,000 | |
|
|
504,000 | |
|
|
379,000 | |
|
|
378,000 | |
|
|
375,000 | |
|
327,000 | |
|
|
278,000 |
Final Day Seat Draw and Chip Counts
| Table | Seat | Player | Chip Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Saryal Egorov | 853,000 | |
| 1 | 2 | Sergey Kotolupov | 375,000 | |
| 1 | 3 | Evgeny Panchenko | 49,000 | |
| 1 | 4 | Artem Bocharov | 772,000 | |
| 1 | 5 | Andrey Kaigorostev | 268,000 | |
| 1 | 6 | Vladislav Shuravin | 797,000 | |
| 1 | 7 | Alexsandr Denisov | 750,000 | |
| 1 | 8 | EMPTY | ||
| 2 | 1 | Roman Tutoyan | 875,000 | |
| 2 | 2 | Serafim Kovalevskiy | 1,293,000 | |
| 2 | 3 | EMPTY | ||
| 2 | 4 | Tuzariya Dzukayaev | 873,000 | |
| 2 | 5 | Valentin Zolotilov | 815,000 | |
| 2 | 6 | Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy | 2,599,000 | |
| 2 | 7 | Вадим Липовка | 604,000 | |
| 2 | 8 | Nikita Myshkin | 504,000 | |
| 3 | 1 | Maksim Bura | 869,000 | |
| 3 | 2 | EMPTY | ||
| 3 | 3 | Kirill Denisenko | 1,106,000 | |
| 3 | 4 | Замятин Михаил | 867,000 | |
| 3 | 5 | EMPTY | ||
| 3 | 6 | Sergey Terentiev | 327,000 | |
| 3 | 7 | Alexander Shlyakhov | 379,000 | |
| 3 | 8 | Mahmut Duman | 1,236,000 | |
| 4 | 1 | Vladimir Gatsutsa | 595,000 | |
| 4 | 2 | Евгений Иванов | 1,260,000 | |
| 4 | 3 | Mikalai Lukoshka | 278,000 | |
| 4 | 4 | Mikhail Sokolovsky | 378,000 | |
| 4 | 5 | Андрей Котельников | 576,000 | |
| 4 | 6 | Stepan Mihno | 641,000 | |
| 4 | 7 | EMPTY | ||
| 4 | 8 | Armen Grigoryan | 734,000 |
A New PokerStars Festival Sochi Champion Will Be Crowned Today
Welcome to the Final Day of the 2017 PokerStars Festival Sochi Main Event.
Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy starts the day with a commanding chip lead but nothing is certain and the winner will be crowned most likely in the early hours of Monday morning.
A total of 699 entries for the Main Event generated a guarantee beating prize pool of RUB 40,681,800. Players from 17 different countries converged on the Sochi Casino and Resort to play in the tournament with Russians naturally the largest contingent with 507 players while the U.K. had two with one apiece from Germany and Argentina.
Play gets underway at 12 p.m. once more where the blinds at level 27 with 12,000/24,000 and an ante of 4,000.
The PokerNews Live Reporting team will bring you all the action and photographs from the event as they play down to a winner and a new PokerStars Festival Main Event Champion.
Level: 23
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 4,000
Cards In the Air!
Level 23
: 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante
Shuffle up and Deal!
Play is underway. The next player to be eliminated will receive 225,000 RUB.
Alexander Shlyakhov Doubles Up Early and Three Eliminations
Level 23
: 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante
Maksim Bura opened the action for 50,000 and Alexander Shlyakhov moved all in for 379,000.
Bura gave it a great deal of thought before calling and finding out he was ahead.
Shlyakhov: 
Bura : 
The board ran out 
.
The two pair on the flop good for a double up for Shlyakhov, who thumped the edge of the table in relief, while an unhappy Bura handed over the greater part of his stack and was eliminated shortly after.
Sergey Terentiev and Evgeny Panchenko have also been eliminated on other tables.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
760,000 | 381,000 |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Mikhail Zamyatin Doubles Up
Level 23
: 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante
Mikhail Zamyatin moved all in for 325,000 and picked up a call from Valentin Zolotilov on the button.
Zamyatin: 
Zolotilov: 
The board ran out 
Zamyatin was a relieved man to get a double up and Zolotilov was now left short.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
660,000 | 660,000 |
|
|
150,000 | -665,000 |
Level: 24
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 5,000
Tuzariya Dzukayaev Doubles Through Vladimir Gatsutsa
Level 24
: 15,000/30,000, 5,000 ante
Vladimir Gatsutsa opened and then called a jam from Tuzariya Dzukayaev who was the player at risk.
Gatsutsa: 
Dzukayaev:
The board ran out 
The saving card on the turn giving Dzukayaev his double up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,000,000 | 127,000 |
|
|
260,000 | -335,000 |