Anatoliy Zyrin has been walking around the table whilst on break, paying close attention to the chip stacks of his opponents, and also writing them down on a notepad that he's been updating all day.
We spoke to him on break about what he's been writing down.
"I don't do it all the time," he explained, "It's my first time. I just had this idea today.
"It's helping me to concentrate and keep focussed. It's not just for chip counts, but I need to do something to keep me busy. And with a lot of short stacks it really helps."
Anatoliy Zyrin raised to 6.5 million and Aleksandr Gofman three-bet to 19.5 million from the cutoff. Short stack Leonid Logunov folded the in the big blind. Zyrin moved all in for effectively 98,500,000 and Gofman called it off.
Anatoliy Zyrin:
Aleksandr Gofman:
The board came and Gofman doubled for 99,000,000 to send Zyrin below 100 million in chips.
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Richard Dubini, gone from the 8-Max in tough-to-take fashion
Just 16 players are left in the hunt for the $266,800 top prize in the $1million-guaranteed 8-Max Side Event here at MILLIONS Russia.
The partypoker Sponsored Pro Richard Dubini will not be among the final table players, having been dealt a bad beat on his way out.
"I had jacks against sixes," the Argentinian told us. "I flopped a jack and he hit runner-runner flush to knock me out."
Dubini may be out of the door, but his fellow partypoker Sponsored Pros Anatoly Filatov (1.5m) and Johnny Lodden (750,000) remain. Both are shorter than the 2.4m average, but as Lodden told us, he expects to have "3.5 million chips very soon." That's what you call announcing your goal.
Serial live tournament casher Konstantin Puchkov remains in contention for the title with 1.6m, but it's Daniel Clark, who qualified for the Main Event on partypoker, who continues to take the plaudits. He has just under 7 million after eliminating two more players. It's hard not to see the in-form British player making the final table. He has had all the momentum today on the final day.
David Laka raised to six millions with and Anatoliy Zyrin just called with the , Aleksandr Gofman called from the big blind with . The flop came and a quick bet of seven million by Laka won the pot uncontested.
Laka moved up to more than 400 million chips and holds 46% of the chips in play.
and Aleksandr Gofman checked in the big blind with 
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and Zyrin bet 4,500,000. Gofman called and the turn was the 
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and Merzhvinskiz checked to Laka who bet 6,000,000. Merzhvinskiz called and the pair then checked the 
and Merzhvinskiy took a stab at the pot, betting 12,500,000. Laka called and his pair of sixes was good enough to take down the pot.
in the big blind. Zyrin moved all in for effectively 98,500,000 and Gofman called it off.
and Gofman doubled for 99,000,000 to send Zyrin below 100 million in chips.
, Aleksandr Gofman called from the big blind with 
and a quick bet of seven million by Laka won the pot uncontested.
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and Merzhvinskiy check-called a bet of 3,500,000 from Laka.