₽191,800 EPT Main Event Day 2 | 2019 PokerStars EPT Sochi

03-26-2019 17:23 UTC+3

Eliminations Start to Slow as Bubble Approaches

Will Shillibier

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Oleg Eltsov	Busted
Aleksandr Roldugin	Busted
Rachid Amamou	Busted
Vladimir Gordienko	Busted
Alexandr Steblina	Busted
Alexsey Golubev	Busted
Andrey Lukyanov	Busted
Yaniv Peretz	Busted
Alexsey Gatsko	Busted
Josef Snejberg	Busted
Sergenii Blagodarnii	Busted
Andrey Bondar	Busted
Anatoliy Voropaev	Busted
Leonid Semenyuk	Busted
Amir Shomron	Busted
Evgeniy Tomilin	Busted

03-26-2019 17:20 UTC+3

Photos From Around the Room

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03-26-2019 17:15 UTC+3

Sheshukov New Chip Leader

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Will Shillibier

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Five tables are in the theatre away from the main tournament area, and Aleksandr Sheshukov has been racking up the pots so that he now sits on around 600,000, surpassing long-time leader Aleksandr Denisov at the top of the chip counts.

Sheshukov finished 34th in the EPT Monte Carlo Main Event last year and will be looking for a similarly deep finish this time around in his native Russia.

Player	Chips	Progress
Aleksandr Sheshukov	600,000 247,000	247,000

Tags: Aleksandr Denisov Aleksandr Sheshukov

03-26-2019 17:06 UTC+3

Peretz Out of the Running

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Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Yaniv Peretz has just played his last hand. After Pier Varrelli limped under the gun, it folded to Peretz who shipped 35,000 all in. With everyone else folding, the action came back to Varrelli who tanked before grudgingly making the call.

Pier Varrelli:
Yaniv Peretz:

The flop connected for both players but Varelli moved ahead with top pair. The turn was a and Peretz was looking for a king or a ten only. It was the instead and he has to make his way to the exit.

Player	Chips	Progress
Pier Varrelli	139,000 90,000	90,000

Tags: Pier Varrelli Yaniv Peretz

03-26-2019 17:05 UTC+3

How Does That Old Saying Go?

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Will Shillibier

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

"Birds of a feather flock together"

Seated at Table 16 are Mikhail Aleksandrov and Mark Zhang, both of whom have over 400,000 in chips.

Meanwhile at Table 17, start-of-day chip leader Aleksandr Denisov was standing up seemingly in a state of faux shock as Dmitry Yurasov was moved to his table. Between them the pair have well over one million in chips and the two exchanged light-hearted words back and forth before Denisov resumed his seat.

Other big stacks around the tournament room include Serafim Kovalevskiy, Viktor Ustimov and Matous Houzvicek.

Player	Chips	Progress
Aleksandr Denisov	570,000 7,000	7,000

Viktor Ustimov	470,000 85,000	85,000

Serafim Kovalevsky	460,000 5,000	5,000
Dmitry Yurasov	440,000 40,000	40,000
Mikhail Aleksandrov	420,000 282,500	282,500
Mark Zhang	405,000 25,000	25,000
Matous Houzvicek	400,000 70,000	70,000

Tags: Aleksandr Denisov Dmitry Yurasov Mark Zhang Matous Houzvicek Mikhail Aleksandrov Serafim Kovalevskiy

03-26-2019 17:04 UTC+3

Karmatskiy Getting Short

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Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Reigning Champion Arseniy Karmatskiy is down to 25 big blinds or so. He just won a pot a medium sized pot, which could signal a shift in the direction he is moving in.

Player	Chips	Progress
Arseniy Karmatskiy	63,000 56,000	56,000

Tags: Arseniy Karmatskiy

03-26-2019 16:45 UTC+3

Bagirov Eliminated by Waigel

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Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

There was an open and Sergey Bagirov, who was down to 22,000, went all in. Ezequiel Waigel raised it up again, putting a stack of 5k chips in and it was an easy fold for the initial raiser. The two flipped their cards on their backs and Waigel was the 4:1 favourite.

Ezequiel Waigel:
Sergey Bagirov:

Waigel held on the board, sending Bagirov to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ezequiel Waigel	216,000 115,000	115,000
Sergey Bagirov	Busted

Tags: Ezequiel Waigel Sergey Bagirov

03-26-2019 16:42 UTC+3

Recent Eliminations; 151 Remaining

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Will Shillibier

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Denis Sapozhnikov	Busted

Maksim Panyak	Busted
Sergei Popov	Busted
Oleg Mikhailov	Busted
John Enright	Busted
Oleg Drews	Busted
Jayjit Ray	Busted
Maksim Illarionov	Busted
Semen Vlyakh	Busted
Vasilijus Piskunovas	Busted
Ivan Volodko	Busted
Almat Idrisov	Busted
Andrey Guliy	Busted
Viktor Shegay	Busted
Daniil Kiselev	Busted
Natik Ismailov	Busted
Mikhail Lobanov	Busted
Vyacheslav Nikulin	Busted
Pavel Kazakov	Busted
Alexandr Sergutin	Busted
Fergan Coyle	Busted
Maksim Pervenenok	Busted
Gennadiy Kalinichenko	Busted
Maxim Khrisanfov	Busted
Darkhan Rakhymzhanov	Busted

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03-26-2019 16:40 UTC+3

PSPC Champion Colillas Eliminated

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Will Shillibier

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

After one player limped, action folded to PSPC Champion Ramon Colillas who raised all in for around 50,000. Mark Zhang was in the big blind and called and the initial limper folded.

Ramon Colillas:
Mark Zhang:

Colillas was ahead but the ace on the flop was not what he wanted to see. The turn was the and he failed to hit his two outer on the river and he was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mark Zhang	380,000 37,000	37,000
Ramon Colillas	Busted

Tags: Ramon Colillas Mark Zhang

03-26-2019 16:34 UTC+3

Yurasov Climbing

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Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Dmitry Yurasov has been quietly chipping up throughout the day and is now up to almost triple the average. Currently 20th on Russia's all time money list with over $2.6 million in cashes, Yurasov is certainly one to keep an eye on at the best of times but even more so now that he has a stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dmitry Yurasov	400,000 294,000	294,000

Tags: Dmitry Yurasov