We've already seen Pierre Neuville in a couple of pots already, and the former November Niner shows no signs of stopping that any time soon. Neuville, who has cashes in the Bahamas, Cyprus, Morocco, Belgium, the United States and Spain this year, is looking to add Russia to that list here in the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event.
On a turn of he bet 17,000 out of the small blind, and his opponent Valery Ryabov raised to 55,000. Neuville three-bet to 167,000 and Ryabov, who only had around 450,000 behind, elected to fold.
Neuville took down the pot and is up and running in today's Main Event flight.
On the river of a board , Arman Atshemyan bet 130,000 into an already decent pot and his sole opponent Andrey Myasoyed called to see his opponent turn over for ace-queen high. Myasoyed had that beat with and claimed a big pot early on.
The second flight of the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event gets underway shortly at 12 p.m. local time, with a bumper field expected. Each player is looking to get one step closer to securing themselves a slice of an eye-watering $5m guaranteed prizepool, and today is the start of that journey.
Yesterday we saw 262 players join the action, but there is expected to be a whole lot more, with the High Roller down to only eight tables, and more players from all over Europe and the rest of the world arriving at the Sochi Casino & Resort.
Judging from yesterday's action, the target for anyone with chip leader ambitions is the four million chip mark. Only Matt Eardley and Petr Gabyshev achieved that feat yesterday, so we will have to wait and see if anyone follows in their footsteps.
Players can qualify online via the phase satellites on partypoker and there were also live phase satellites, which ultimately send the players into the Live Day 1 here in Sochi. All direct entries receive 1,000,000 in chips and the first level starts with blinds of 1,500/3,000, the button ante format is used. With six players or more, the full big blind is to be played by the player on the button, while tables with five players or fewer only have to pay the small blind.
There are three Day 1s in total, with a turbo heat featuring levels of 20 minutes each gets underway before the start of Day 2. Each Day 1 will play eight levels in total before the field then combines for Day 2 on Monday September 11th 2017 as of 3.30 p.m. local time.
he bet 17,000 out of the small blind, and his opponent Valery Ryabov raised to 55,000. Neuville three-bet to 167,000 and Ryabov, who only had around 450,000 behind, elected to fold.
, Arman Atshemyan bet 130,000 into an already decent pot and his sole opponent Andrey Myasoyed called to see his opponent turn over 
for ace-queen high. Myasoyed had that beat with 
and claimed a big pot early on.
