Chris Moneymaker has entered the competition towards the end of level four and headed to the secondary tournament area to take a sat on table 34. He will face Leonid Semenyuk, Viktor Shegay, Arunas Sapitavicius, Sergey Menshov, and Vasiliy Kurdin on a table filled with plenty of notables.
The cards of Shavkat Usmanov were in the muck already and Nikita Bochkin claimed the chips with 
, having flopped two pair on a board of 
.
Usmanov, along with all other players to run out of chips on Day 1a, can re-enter all day long and until the start of Day 2.
In the secondary tournament area, eight tables remain in action and the one with Viktor Shegay contains the most table talk, as per usual. Arunas Sapitavicius has chipped up nicely on there, as has Sergey Menshov, while Leonid Semenyuk dropped below the starting stack.
Menshov raised and was called two ways by Semenyuk and Amir Oganyan in the big blind. Oganyan check-called a bet of 1,500 by Menshov on the 
flop and Semenyuk also came along.
The turn was checked to Semenyuk, who bet 3,000 and forced two folds.
On a flop of 
, Aleksandr Paygusov checked and called a bet of 400 by Gleb Kovtunov to see the 
turn. Both players checked and opted to do so again on the 
river. Paygusov turned over the 
for a pair of treys to win the pot.
There are two players with around three times the starting stack early in level four and one of them is Sergey Ulitskyi in the corner section of the ballroom.
He just faced Aleksey Shchekutov in a heads-up pot as of the 
turn and bet 1,500 in the hijack, which Shchekutov in the cutoff called. Another bet of 500 and call followed on the 
river and Ulitskyi tabled for a full house as the winning hand.
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/300
Ante: 300
Garik Tamasyan, Alisa Sibgatova and Pavel Kovalenko were among those to bust and enter Day 1a a second time.
Quang Nguyen bet the 
river for 5,000 with some chips behind and Ekaterina Fedyaeva moved all in. Nguyen reluctantly called and was shown the 
for a full house. He was going to muck his cards but as per all in showdown rule the 
were exposed.
There are now eight tables in play in the secondary room and some of the new notables that appeared there were Artur Martirosyan, Dmitriy Ponomarev, EPT Sochi champion Arsenii Karmatckii and Vlada Stojanovic.
Igor Paczek jumped back above the starting stack when he won a three-bet pot against Sergey Menshov. Paczek continued for 2,400 on the 
flop and was called, the 
turn was checked. A bet of 5,000 by Paczek on the river forced a fold.
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