2019 PokerStars EPT Open Sochi
Another two dozen players were felted and there are 178 players remaining out of a field of 468 entries. Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy busted once more after having recently re-entered and he was joined on the rail by Mikhail Semin, Aleksandr Lakhov, Vitaliy Li and Alekasandr Ilin.
The board was all but rushed away as Vladislav Vinogradov had check-called a bet of Ezatulla Amani for 14,700 into a pot of 22,000 and was shown ![]()
for the flopped nut straight.
Vinogradov quickly sent his cards into the muck but remains on almost two times the average stack.
Only Alisa Sibgatova in the big blind came along with Artur Martirosyan had raised from the under-the-gun position and she check-called a bet on the ![]()
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flop. The
appeared on the turn and Sibgatova checked once more to trigger a bet of 16,000 by Martirosyan, which this time went through to win the pot right there.
There is a new chip leader in town and that happens to be Anatolii Filonenko, who scrapes at ten times the starting stack with fewer than 200 players remaining.
Several other notables were less fortunate and hit the rail recently including Aleksandr Gofman, Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy, Laurynas Levinskas, Vasiliy Tsapko and Anvar Muratov.
Vladimir Pilyavskiy limped from the hijack and Aleksandr Lakhov raised to 3,500, which resulted in a call from Aleksandr Sokolov in the small blind and Pilyavskiy. The flop brought ![]()
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and two quick checks sent the action back on Lakhov.
All it took to claim the pot was a bet of 4,400, as Sokolov and Pilyavskiy quickly got out of the way.
Level: 10
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 1,200
Just before the blinds went up for the final level of the night, Aleksandr Denisov boosted his stack after being the initial raiser from under the gun. He picked up resistance in Aleksandr Platonov from late position and they created a pot of around 21,000 to the ![]()
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river.
Denisov checked and Platonov bet 6,000 to receive a reluctant call. Platonov was bluffing with the ![]()
and Denisov earned the pot with ![]()
for sevens and fours.