₽133,000 EPT Open Main Event Day 2 | 2019 PokerStars EPT Open Sochi

10-11-2019 17:50 UTC+3

Novoselov and Bitar Lead; Bubble Looms

Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

The empty seat of Aleksandr Ivanov was filled with Roman Novoselov, who arrived with a ton of chips and appears to be the current chip leader. Firudin Aliev departed from the very same table, Amir Oganyan and Vitaly Tevis were also eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ghassan Bitar	800,000 430,000	430,000
Roman Novoselov	700,000 270,000	270,000
Vladislav Petrov	500,000 372,000	372,000

Wilhelm Isaak	360,000 200,000	200,000
Aleksey Istomin	190,000 50,000	50,000
Firudin Aliev	Busted
Lev Moiseenko	Busted
Vladimir Zakharov	Busted
Amir Oganyan	Busted
Vitaly Tevis	Busted
Sergey Romanenkov	Busted

Tags: Aleksandr Ivanov Amir Oganyan Firudin Aliev Roman Novoselov Vitaly Tevis

Level: 16

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 5,000

10-11-2019 18:00 UTC+3

Small Pot for Kozenkova

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

From under the gun, Afshin Afsharorumieh made it 12,000 to go right after the blinds had gone up and Lidiya Kozenkova called from one seat over.

Both opted to check down the entire board of and Afsharorumieh rolled over the , Kozenkova claimed the pot with .

Player	Chips	Progress
Afshin Afsharorumieh	205,000 20,000	20,000
Lidiya Kozenkova	85,000 15,000	15,000

Tags: Afshin Afsharorumieh Lidiya Kozenkova

10-11-2019 18:06 UTC+3

Lubov Runs Into Kings

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

Another four players were sent to the rail in quick succession to reduce the field to the last 134 hopefuls.

Pavel Lubov saw his hopes of a cash vanish when he got it in preflop for 95,000 with the , as Yam Hod Gilad held up with on a board of . The stack sizes were very similar as Gilad had Lubov covered by just 3,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yam Hod Gilad	205,000 140,500	140,500
Mikhail Ryabkov	Busted
Andrey Baranyuk	Busted
Pavel Lubov	Busted
Seyed Mansour Razavi	Busted

Tags: Pavel Lubov Yam Hod Gilad

10-11-2019 18:13 UTC+3

Moneymaker Short on the Bubble

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

Sergey Verkhoturov was among those to bust not far off the money bubble and Chris Moneymaker has dropped into the danger zone with just 10 big blinds at his disposal.

Player	Chips	Progress
Fatima Moreira de Melo	110,000 20,000	20,000
Chris Moneymaker	50,000 105,000	105,000

Sergey Verkhoturov	Busted
Yernat Tumanshiyev	Busted
Igor Mironchik	Busted

Tags: Chris Moneymaker Sergey Verkhoturov

10-11-2019 18:20 UTC+3

Penkov Cracks Kings

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

Arutyun Minosyants went from huge favorite to sudden underdog when was involved in an all-in showdown against Ilya Penkov, as the latter spiked a set with versus on a flop.

Minosyants still had outs with the diamond draw, but the turn and river bricked.

At the same time two tables over, Viktoriya Taranova lost the fight with her short stack and that reduced the field to the last 130 players.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ilya Penkov	170,000 101,300	101,300
Arutyun Minosyants	27,000 80,800	80,800
Viktoriya Taranova	Busted

Tags: Arutyun Minosyants Viktoriya Taranova Ilya Penkov

10-11-2019 18:32 UTC+3

The Bubble Has Been Reached

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

There are 128 players remaining as Tobias Peters and Anilkumar Singh have been eliminated.

Peters jammed the button for around 80,000 and was called by Emin Mugulov.

Tobias Peters:
Emin Mugulov:

The board came and Peters failed to catch an ace of straight after falling behind on the flop.

Singh three-bet shoved with ace-king into the aces of Karen Arutyunyan in a battle of the blinds.

All current hands will now be completed and the final players from the Ballroom moved. Roman Timergazin has one T-5,000 chip left and a few hands before he will be forced all in. Quite remarkably, Timergazin is the 666th entry of the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Emin Mugulov	340,000 40,000	40,000
Karen Arutyunyan	290,000 60,000	60,000
Roman Timergazin	5,000 71,800	71,800
Tobias Peters	Busted
Anilkumar Singh	Busted

Tags: Anilkumar Singh Emin Mugulov Karen Arutyunyan Roman Timergazin Tobias Peters

10-11-2019 18:44 UTC+3

Hand-For-Hand Play Commences

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

The remaining 128 players are back in their seats and the money bubble has kicked off. Unlike other events, the clock will be running and no fixed amount of minutes will be deducted per hand.

10-11-2019 18:52 UTC+3

Istomin Nearly Doubles on the Bubble

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

Almost all tables were finished with their action except for one and Aleksey Istomin was involved in a bigger pot against Roman Novoselov.

Istomin in the big blind and Novoselov from under the gun created a pot of 140,000 to the . Istomin checked and Novoselov bet 110,000, which was almost exactly what Istomin had left.

He eventually made the call and would have had fewer than two big blinds left if he were to lose.

Novoselov tabled for a bluff and Istomin scored a vital pot with the .

Player	Chips	Progress
Roman Novoselov	450,000 250,000	250,000
Aleksey Istomin	350,000 160,000	160,000

Tags: Aleksey Istomin Roman Novoselov

10-11-2019 18:56 UTC+3

Baaziz Bubbles the EPT Open Sochi Main Event

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

Maryo Baaziz raised the button to 11,000 and big stack Vladislav Petrov pushed his stack of nearly half a million from the small blind. Baaziz called for what appeared to be 127,000 in total and they had to wait until all other tables were finished.

Maryo Baaziz:
Vladislav Petrov:

A big rail gathered to see the board run out and the bubble burst in spectacular fashion with the ace on the river.