2019 PokerStars EPT Sochi

₽191,800 EPT Main Event
Day: 4
Event Info

2019 PokerStars EPT Sochi

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a4
Prize
27,475,000 RUB
Event Info
Buy-in
191,800 RUB
Prize Pool
145,500,000 RUB
Entries
758
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
120,000

Sergey Petrushevskiy Eliminated in 9th Place (₽2,079,770/~$31,900)

Level 26 : 25,000/50,000, 50,000 ante
Sergey Petrushevskiy
Sergey Petrushevskiy

Sergey Petrushevskiy moved all in from under the gun for 450,000. Zakhar Babaev was in early position and called. The remaining players all folded.

Sergey Petrushevskiy: {k-Clubs}{q-Clubs}
Zakhar Babaev: {q-Spades}{q-Diamonds}

The board came {4-Diamonds}{4-Spades}{j-Clubs}{8-Spades}{8-Clubs} and Petrushevskiy was eliminated.

Player Chips Progress
Zakhar Babaev il
Zakhar Babaev
5,100,000
580,000
580,000
Day 4 Chip Leader
Sergey Petrushevskiy ru
Sergey Petrushevskiy
Busted

Tags: Sergey PetrushevskiyZakhar Babaev

Dmitry Yurasov Eliminated in 8th Place (₽2,625,000/~$40,300)

Level 26 : 25,000/50,000, 50,000 ante
Dmitry Yurasov
Dmitry Yurasov

Hand #8: Maksim Pisarenko {5-Clubs}{8-Diamonds} raised from early position. Dmitry Yurasov three-bet all in for 514,000 with {k-Spades}{10-Spades}. Vyacheslav Mizun {j-Spades}{j-Clubs} called in the big blind and Pisarenko folded.

Yurasov was at risk and would need to spike a king or straight cards to avoid elimination. The flop came {j-Hearts}{5-Hearts}{4-Clubs} giving Mizun a set and the {3-Spades} sealed Yurasov's elimination. The river {4-Hearts} changed nothing and he was eliminated.

Player Chips Progress
Zakhar Babaev il
Zakhar Babaev
6,410,000
-310,000
-310,000
Day 4 Chip Leader
Maksim Pisarenko ru
Maksim Pisarenko
4,750,000
280,000
280,000
$25K Fantasy
Vyacheslav Mizun ru
Vyacheslav Mizun
3,440,000
920,000
920,000
Uri Gilboa il
Uri Gilboa
3,180,000
EPT 1X Winner
Ivan Ruban ru
Ivan Ruban
2,320,000
-130,000
-130,000
Francisco Benitez uy
Francisco Benitez
955,000
Serafim Kovalevsky ru
Serafim Kovalevsky
695,000
-25,000
-25,000
Dmitry Yurasov ru
Dmitry Yurasov
Busted

Tags: Dmitry YurasovMaksim PisarenkoVyacheslav Mizun

Kovalevsky Doubles Through Pisarenko

Level 26 : 25,000/50,000, 50,000 ante
Serafim Kovalevsky
Serafim Kovalevsky

Hand #18: Serafim Kovalevsky moved all in from early position for 570,000. It folded to Maksim Pisarenko in the big blind who called.

Serafim Kovalevsky: {10-Spades}{10-Diamonds}
Maksim Pisarenko: {a-Spades}{q-Clubs}

The board came {6-Clubs}{2-Spades}{5-Spades}{9-Spades}{k-Clubs} and Kovalevsky doubled up.

Player Chips Progress
Maksim Pisarenko ru
Maksim Pisarenko
3,605,000
-335,000
-335,000
$25K Fantasy
Serafim Kovalevsky ru
Serafim Kovalevsky
1,215,000
520,000
520,000

Tags: Maksim PisarenkoSerafim Kovalevsky

Francisco Benitez Eliminated in 7th Place (₽3,850,000/~$59,000)

Level 27 : 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante
Francisco Benitez
Francisco Benitez

Hand #24: Serafim Kovalevsky open-shoved for 900,000. It folded to Francisco Benitez who called and was all in for 845,000.

Serafim Kovalevsky: {q-Spades}{q-Diamonds}
Francisco Benitez: {a-Hearts}{a-Diamonds}

Kovalevsky had run into the pocket aces of Benitez but a queen in the window of a {q-Clubs}{6-Clubs}{5-Hearts} flop turned the tables.

The turn {7-Diamonds} and river {2-Clubs} bricked and Benitez was eliminated in seventh place.

Player Chips Progress
Francisco Benitez uy
Francisco Benitez
Busted

Tags: Francisco BenitezSerafim Kovalevsky

Zakhar Babaev Leads Final Six in EPT Sochi Main Event

Level 27 : 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante
Zakhar Babaev
Zakhar Babaev

Zakhar Babaev is the overwhelming chip leader with just six players left in the PokerStars EPT Sochi Main Event. Babaev came into the day as the second shortest stack, but his day was bookended by surges that will see him take 9,035,000 (181 bb) through to Day 5.

There is a massive gulf between him and the rest of the field, with nearest challengers Maksim Pisarenko (3,705,000) and Vyacheslav Mizun over five million chips adrift. There is another drop back to Uri Gilboa (2,115,000) and the two smallest stacks at the final table Serafim Kovalevsky (1,865,000) and Ivan Ruban (1,795,000) but with almost 40 big blinds they are by no means short.

Here's how the final six are seated at the final table:

PositionNameCountryChip CountBig Blinds
1Ivan RubanRussia1,795,00030
2Vyacheslav MizunRussia3,285,00055
3Zakhar BabaevIsrael9,030,000151
4Maksim PisarenkoRussia3,705,00062
5Uri GilboaIsrael2,115,00035
6Serafim KovalevskyRussia1,865,00031
Final 16
Final 16

Timur Khamidullin was the first elimination of the day on the very first hand of the day before an early double for Babaev sent him on his way when he went runner-runner to river a flush.

Babaev followed this up with the eliminations of Stanislav Shchipalov and Vanush Mnatsakanyan to lead the field by the first break.

Nikolay Plastinin enjoyed three doubles in the first level of play with the outer table a hive of activity with a series of eliminations as Aleksey Istomin, Stanislav Shchipalov and Vanush Mnatsakanyan were all eliminated.

Francisco Benitez enjoyed the briefest of spells in the chip lead after doubling with aces against the kings of Dmitry Yurasov, only for Yurasov to double back through him with queens against jacks on the very next hand!

Babaev's storming first level saw him in the lead, with Mikhail Aleksandrov bubbling two tables shortly after play resumed.

Sergey Frizyak was eliminated before Plastinin - who chopped on the stone bubble of this tournament to stay alive - was also sent to the rail.

Aleksandr Denisov
Aleksandr Denisov

The pace of eliminations slowed dramatically as the average chip stack soared, and Aleksandr Denisov was the next to go. The Day 1a and Day 2 chip leader was coolered out of the Main Event, with his kings running into the aces of Maksim Pisarenko who then send Aleksandr Sheshukov to the rail after Pisarenko flopped a set to crack the queens of his opponent.

Pisarenko and Babaev traded eliminations, with Andrey Malyshev and start-of-day chip leader Danil Bukharin eliminated just short of the final table.

It was clear that Babaev wasn't happy in second place nine-handed and with the elimination of Sergey Petrushevsky in ninth he surged into the lead and didn't look back.

Even the elimination of Vyacheslav Mizun in eighth by Pisarenko wasn't enough to reel Babaev in who had already built an imposing chip lead by the time Francisco Benitez became the final elimination of the day.

Zakhar Babaev
Zakhar Babaev

The six players still in the EPT Sochi Main Event are all guaranteed ₽5,390,000 (~$83,000) but stay tuned to PokerNews.com to see who will be walking away with the ₽27,475,000 (~$422,000) first prize.

Tags: Aleksandr DenisovAleksandr SheshukovAleksey IstominAndrey MalyshevDanil BukharinDmitry YurasovFrancisco BenitezIvan RubanMaksim PisarenkoMikhail AleksandrovNikita KuznetsovNikolay PlastininSerafim KovalevskySergey FrizyakStanislav ShchipalovTimur KhamidullinUri GilboaVanush MnatsakanyanVyacheslav MizunZakhar Babaev