With less than an hour to go before Day 1c comes to an end, here are some of the latest bustouts.
2019 PokerStars EPT Sochi
Level: 9
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
It's the second and last break of the day. See you back here in 15 minutes.
Giorgiy Skhulukhiya opened to 1,600 from under the gun and Rushad Iskandarov three-bet all in to 9,200 from the small blind. When Skhulukhiya confirmed how much it was to call, he put a stack of chips in to signify the call and they turned their cards over.
Giorgiy Skhulukhiya: ![]()
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Rushad Iskandarov: ![]()
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Iskandarov had got it in good for his tournament life but that all changed on the ![]()
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flop. The
turn and
river couldn't turn it around and Iskandarov will have to re-enter to stay in the game. After a shaky start for Skhulukhiya, things have certainly turned around over the last two levels for him.
Denis Sapozhinikov had a great start to the tournament after eliminating Mikhail Galitskiy near the beginning of the day. Since then his stack has gone from strength to strength and he is out in front with three levels of the day to go.
He has been applying pressure to the table well and just took a pot on the turn with ![]()
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down, in a hand against Ihar Koshal. The flop had gone check-check but Sapozhinikov check-raised Koshal all-in on the turn when he bet 3,000 of his 6,000 stack. Koshal quickly folded and is left extremely short.
Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 800
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flop, with more than 10,000 in the middle, Nikita Korolev bet 7,000. Timur Azizov was the only other player in and by the look on his face he didn't like the spot at all. He passed and is down to just half of starting stack, whilst Korolev is building well.
Maxim Panyak is in the field and is chipping up nicely so far. The EPT regular has almost tripled his starting stack.
Level: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600