In a battle of the blinds, Natalia Panchenko ended up all in for 35,000 and needed to dodge one overcard against Artur Grirgoryants.
Natalia Panchenko: 
Artur Grigoryants: 
The 
flop all but sealed the double but the 
turn gave Grigoryants some unexpected outs. A blank 
followed on the river and that kept Panchenko in the running, who is now even in chips with Dmitrii Sukhorukov.
Dmitry Gromov is back in action and currently sits right next to Gleb Tremzin, he was able to run up small profit since returning to the felt.
The same also applies for Aleksandr Ilin, who was successful with a check-raise against Pavel Gergedava. After calling a raise to 2,000 preflop, Ilin check-raised the 
flop from 2700 to 6,200 to force a quick fold.
Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 800
After seven levels of play, the field size of Day 1b has reached 170 entries and 122 players remain in contention. They were sent into a 20-minute break, another three levels remain for tonight.
Ilya Pirogov was able to build his stack after bowing down to the aggression of Artur Osipov only for both to meet once again. With some 30,000 already in the middle, Osipov bet the 
river for 8,500 and Pirogov reluctantly called.
Osipov confidently rolled over the 
for jacks and sevens, Pirogov nodded and mucked. Their table broke soon after to balance the shrinking field.
An already big pot got even bigger when Anatoliy Pluzhnik scored a double for 24,300 on the 
river as his 
were the nuts. Dmitry Gromov was left with a mountain to climb as he had a mere 11 big blinds and change at his disposal when all was done and dusted.
The second bullet of Artem Khachaturov is off to a better start as he more than doubled already and claimed a big pot off Arsen Gasparyan without showdown.
Three-ways to the 
flop he bet 1,600 first to act and Gasparyan raised to 3,500. The big blind folded and Khachaturov raised to 10,500, which was called. On the 
turn, Khachaturov almost immediately moved all in and that forced a fold from Gasparyan.
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