The 2019 PokerStars EPT Open Sochi festival will be one step closer to crowning a champion on Day 3 of the RUB133,000 Main Event (~$2,040) as 46 remaining players out of 879 total entries aim to reach the final table on the penultimate tournament day at the stunning Casino Sochi.
Five players have more than one million in chips to their name and Vladislav Petrov leads the pack by a very small margin with 1,452,000, as Lidiya Kozenkova (1,420,000) is right on his heels. Dmitriy Kopyl (1,300,000), Yi Ye (1,300,000), and Natalia Panchenko (1,147,000) follow not far behind.
Plenty of other notables remain in the hunt for the top prize of more than $300,000 such as Artur Osipov (978,000), Aleksey Istomin (683,000), Dmitry Ponomarev (643,000), Pavel Vershinin (633,000), Mikhail Zamyatin (581,000), 2019 WSOP bracelet winner Anatolii Zyrin (326,000), and Vyacheslav Goryachev (256,000).
All remaining 46 players will return to the action at noon local time and the blinds continue at 8,000-16,000 with a big blind ante of 16,000. As of Day 3 and for the remainder of the tournament, the level duration increases to 75 minutes and the aim for Day 3 is to reach the final table and play down to the final six, if possible.
Remaining Payouts
| Position | Prize (in CSU) | Prize (in Rubles) | Prize (~ in USD) |
|---|
| 1 | 275,800 | 19,306,000 ₽ | $301,378 |
| 2 | 167,460 | 11,722,200 ₽ | $182,991 |
| 3 | 118,140 | 8,269,800 ₽ | $129,097 |
| 4 | 88,600 | 6,202,000 ₽ | $96,817 |
| 5 | 69,850 | 4,889,500 ₽ | $76,328 |
| 6 | 52,280 | 3,659,600 ₽ | $57,129 |
| 7 | 36,770 | 2,573,900 ₽ | $40,180 |
| 8 | 25,840 | 1,808,800 ₽ | $28,236 |
| 9 | 20,500 | 1,435,000 ₽ | $22,401 |
| 10-11 | 16,910 | 1,183,700 ₽ | $18,478 |
| 12-13 | 15,140 | 1,059,800 ₽ | $16,544 |
| 14-15 | 13,660 | 956,200 ₽ | $14,927 |
| 16-17 | 12,180 | 852,600 ₽ | $13,310 |
| 18-20 | 10,710 | 749,700 ₽ | $11,703 |
| 21-23 | 9,230 | 646,100 ₽ | $10,086 |
| 24-27 | 7,750 | 542,500 ₽ | $8,469 |
| 28-31 | 6,720 | 470,400 ₽ | $7,343 |
| 32-39 | 5,820 | 407,400 ₽ | $6,360 |
| 40-46 | 5,020 | 351,400 ₽ | $5,486 |
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor to provide the Main Event action and two further highlights await for poker enthusiasts from near and far in Sochi today. The second starting flight of the RUB10,500 "Moneymaker's Road to PSPC" with a Platinum Pass valued at more than €26,000 to the winner is scheduled for a noon start and Day 1 of the RUB257,600 EPT Open High Roller kicks off at 3 p.m. local time.
Main Event Day 3 Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|
| 1 | 1 | Azim Orunov | Russia | 505,000 | 32 |
| 1 | 2 | Mikhail Zamyatin | Russia | 581,000 | 36 |
| 1 | 3 | Svetlana Sokolova | Russia | 255,000 | 16 |
| 1 | 4 | Aleksey Shkolnikov | Russia | 226,000 | 14 |
| 1 | 5 | Michael Rodrigues | Portugal | 501,000 | 31 |
| 1 | 6 | Sergey Galaktionov | Russia | 654,000 | 41 |
| 1 | 7 | Filipp Aukhodeev | Russia | 750,000 | 47 |
| 1 | 8 | Vladimir Dmitriev | Russia | 458,000 | 29 |
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| 2 | 1 | Aleksey Badulin | Russia | 208,000 | 13 |
| 2 | 2 | Anatolii Zyrin | Russia | 326,000 | 20 |
| 2 | 3 | Iliya Poyarkov | Russia | 517,000 | 32 |
| 2 | 4 | Abdul Mamin Abdal Ali Han | Russia | 748,000 | 47 |
| 2 | 5 | Lidiya Kozenkova | Ukraine | 1,420,000 | 89 |
| 2 | 6 | Andrey Malyshev | Russia | 471,000 | 29 |
| 2 | 7 | Vyacheslav Goryachev | Russia | 256,000 | 16 |
| 2 | 8 | Giorgiy Skhulukhiya | Russia | 318,000 | 20 |
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| 3 | 1 | Nikita Kuznetsov | Russia | 786,000 | 49 |
| 3 | 2 | Ilya Penkov | Russia | 200,000 | 13 |
| 3 | 3 | Sergii Ulitskyi | Ukraine | 965,000 | 60 |
| 3 | 4 | Pavel Vershinin | Russia | 633,000 | 40 |
| 3 | 5 | Thom Greben | Netherlands | 950,000 | 59 |
| 3 | 6 | Zahiri Banafsheh | Iran | 204,000 | 13 |
| 3 | 7 | Aleksey Istomin | Russia | 683,000 | 43 |
| 3 | 8 | Evgenii Shkolnik | Russia | 287,000 | 18 |
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| 4 | 1 | Dmitriy Kopyl | Russia | 1,300,000 | 81 |
| 4 | 2 | Artem Metelskiy | Russia | 598,000 | 37 |
| 4 | 3 | Aleksandr Andreev | Russia | 708,000 | 44 |
| 4 | 4 | Denis Trenchenko | Russia | 302,000 | 19 |
| 4 | 5 | Karen Arutyunyan | Russia | 264,000 | 17 |
| 4 | 6 | Vladimir Lelgant | Russia | 138,000 | 9 |
| 4 | 7 | Artem Voziyanov | Russia | 316,000 | 20 |
| 4 | 8 | Vladislav Petrov | Russia | 1,452,000 | 91 |
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| 5 | 1 | Boris Kitov | Russia | 600,000 | 38 |
| 5 | 2 | Artur Osipov | Russia | 978,000 | 61 |
| 5 | 3 | Vage Melikyan | Armenia | 216,000 | 14 |
| 5 | 4 | Dmitry Ponomarev | Russia | 643,000 | 40 |
| 5 | 5 | Aleksey Gortikov | Russia | 337,000 | 21 |
| 5 | 7 | Natalia Panchenko | Russia | 1,147,000 | 72 |
| 5 | 8 | Egor Sukhov | Russia | 655,000 | 41 |
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| 6 | 1 | Igor Reznik | Russia | 217,000 | 14 |
| 6 | 2 | Giorgi Rukhadze | Georgia | 619,000 | 39 |
| 6 | 3 | Aleksandr Sokolov | Russia | 277,000 | 17 |
| 6 | 5 | Roman Novoselov | Russia | 475,000 | 30 |
| 6 | 6 | Ghassan Bitar | Ghana | 120,000 | 8 |
| 6 | 7 | Konstantin Streletskiy | Russia | 601,000 | 38 |
| 6 | 8 | Yi Ye | China | 1,300,000 | 81 |
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