₽133,000 EPT Open Main Event Day 1a | 2019 PokerStars EPT Open Sochi

10-09-2019 13:42 UTC+3

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrey Semenkov	Busted
Yesset Aimukhanov	Busted
Alexey Pugachev	Busted
Nikolay Klychev	Busted
Denis Vlasov	Busted
Aleksandr Davydov	Busted
Ruslan Khasansin	Busted
Rustam Akhtyamov	Busted

Player	Chips	Progress
Abraham Passet	30,000 30,000	30,000
Karen Arutyunyan	30,000 30,000	30,000
Tatyana Barausova	30,000 30,000	30,000
Daniel Belov	30,000 30,000	30,000
James Brett	30,000 30,000	30,000
Daniel Carlsson	30,000 30,000	30,000
Roman Gadzhiev	30,000 30,000	30,000
Andrey Kotelnikov	30,000 30,000	30,000
Daniil Lesin	30,000 30,000	30,000
Artem Metelskiy	30,000 30,000	30,000
Sami Sahati	30,000 30,000	30,000
Arunas Sapitavicius	30,000 30,000	30,000
Dzmitry Shut	30,000 30,000	30,000

Second Tournament Area in Play

Christian Zetzsche

Level 2 : 100/100, 100 ante

The ballroom features 32 tables and the new poker room has also just added tables to the mix as the field keeps growing in the second level of the day.

Among those seated there are Tobias Peters, Leonid Semenyuk, Afshin Afsharorumieh, and Viktor Shegay. Afsharorumieh already more than doubled his stack and Shegay claimed a pot against Igor Paczek.

Paczek opened to 300 and called Shegay's three-bet to 1,000. Shegay continued for 1,500 on the flop and was called before a second barrel worth 2,500 on the turn won the pot right there.

Player	Chips	Progress
Afshin Afsharorumieh	70,000 70,000	70,000
Viktor Shegay	32,000 32,000	32,000
Tobias Peters	30,000 30,000	30,000
Leonid Semenyuk	30,000 30,000	30,000
Igor Paczek	28,000 28,000	28,000

Tags: Afshin Afsharorumieh Igor Paczek Leonid Semenyuk Tobias Peters Viktor Shegay

10-09-2019 13:16 UTC+3

Puchkov Joins the Fray

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 2 : 100/100, 100 ante

Konstantin Puchkov has been spotted in the field and he was just involved in three-way action as the initial raiser from early position. The turn showed and the action checked to Ali Ferenix on the button, who made it 1,900 to go. Only Sergey Orekhov called and the river was checked.

Orekhov tabled the for trips nines and that won the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sergey Orekhov	34,000 34,000	34,000
Konstantin Puchkov	29,000 29,000	29,000
Ali Ferenix	26,000 26,000	26,000

Tags: Ali Ferenix Konstantin Puchkov Sergey Orekhov

10-09-2019 13:10 UTC+3

New Faces and Bustouts

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 2 : 100/100, 100 ante

Among the first three players to bust was Artur Osipov, while several notables joined the growing field such as Garik Tamasyan, Alisa Sibgatova and Vsevolod Nikolaev.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alisa Sibgatova	30,000
Garik Tamasyan	30,000
Vsevolod Nikolaev	30,000
Artur Osipov	Busted
Ruslan Khasansin	Busted
Eran Shaham	Busted

Tags: Alisa Sibgatova Artur Osipov Garik Tamasyan Vsevolod Nikolaev

10-09-2019 13:05 UTC+3

Selivanov Bests Gorkaya in Big Pot

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 2 : 100/100, 100 ante

With the completed board showing , Irina Gorkaya made it 4,000 to go and Dmitriy Selivanov raised to 15,000. Goryaka quickly called and was shown for the nut flush by Selivanov, she mucked for a flopped set of tens.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dmitriy Selivanov	51,000 21,000	21,000
Irina Gorkaya	13,000 13,000	13,000

Tags: Dmitriy Selivanov Irina Goryaka

Level: 2

Blinds: 100/100

Ante: 100

10-09-2019 12:55 UTC+3

Nagy Loses a Small Pot

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 1 : 100/100, 0 ante

Three-ways to the turn, Anton Komarov checked and Mikhail Badalyan made it 1,000 to go which only Vivien Nagy on the button called. The came on the river and Badalyan made it another 2,000 to go, Nagy called and mucked when she was shown the .

Player	Chips	Progress
Mikhail Badalyan	33,000 33,000	33,000
Vivien Nagy	31,500 1,500	1,500

Tags: Anton Komarov Mikhail Badalyan Vivien Nagy

10-09-2019 12:45 UTC+3

Moreira de Melo Enters

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 1 : 100/100, 0 ante

PokerStars ambassador Fatima Moreira de Melo has made the trip to Russia and entered Day 1a mid-way through the first level. The former hockey international immediately engaged in table chat and won a pot early on to get off the bat.

For Sergey Frizyak on the same table, the start wasn't as pleasant and he dropped one third o his stack already.

Player	Chips	Progress
Fatima Moreira de Melo	32,000 32,000	32,000
Ruslan Mityaev	30,000 30,000	30,000
Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy	30,000 30,000	30,000
Nikolay Fal	30,000 30,000	30,000
Sergey Frizyak	20,000 20,000	20,000

Tags: Fatima Moreira De Melo Sergey Frizyak

10-09-2019 12:36 UTC+3

Ivlev and Ilin on the Rise

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 1 : 100/100, 0 ante

Yuriy Logish raised to 300 and Andrey Ivlev three-bet to 900 from one seat over, which Logish called. Both checked the flop and Logish check-folded the turn when facing a bet of 600.

One table over, the completed board showed and a bet of 1,500 by Aleksandr Ilin was called by Azamat Tazhgov. Ilin tabled for two pair and that won the pot.