On the three-way flop of , Sergei Petrushevskii and Aleksey Velmuzhov checked out of the blinds and called a bet of 1,200 by Sergey Pichugin in late position.
The turn was checked and only Petrushevskii check-called a bet of 4,400 by Pichugin. His chopped with as both players held the nut straight.
On a completed board of , Vadim Lukiyan opted to check and was met with a bet of 15,000 by Aleksandr Tkachev from one seat over. By then there were some 17,000 in the middle and Lukiyan eventually folded.
On a heads-up flop of , Gleb Tremzin made it 2,100 to go and Nazari Farbod raised it up to 5,100. Tremzin wasted little time before moving all in and Farbod sent his cards into the muck.
Aleksandr Gofman finds himself at a table that also includes Dmitrii Sukhorukov and the latter just won a pot off Artur Grigoryants. A completed board of was checked by Sukhorukov and he called a bet of 500 to get shown the for bottom pair, which he had beat with for a pair of nines.
The first level of the third and final heat drew more than 80 players in the first level of the day and that number has since grown to a mighty 110. So far, nobody has been eliminated but that seems just a matter of time.