Main Event Day 2 | 2017 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia

09-11-2017 20:40 UTC+3

Romanello Missing from the Theatre

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Aleksei Istomin has boosted his stack nicely over in the theatre, as has Sergei Chantcev, while Roberto Romanello is missing. According to Richard Dubini, Romanello defended his big blind with and check-shoved with a gutshot and flush draw. Dubini had flopped top two with and held up.

As for Chantcev, he just sent Nikolai Nikita to the rail when his got there to crack the of the Ukrainian on the board of .

Player	Chips	Progress
Aleksei Istomin	4,480,000 4,480,000	4,480,000
Aleksandra Babich	3,500,000 3,500,000	3,500,000
Richard Dubini	2,700,000 1,850,000	1,850,000

Matt Eardley	2,550,000 2,050,000	2,050,000

Dmitry Chop	2,500,000 1,400,000	1,400,000
David Coates	1,850,000 600,000	600,000
Diego Zeiter	Busted
Martynas Trubila	Busted
Roberto Romanello	Busted

Nikolai Nikita	Busted
Terrance Green	Busted

Tags: Aleksei Istomin Nikolai Nikita Richard Dubini Roberto Romanello Sergei Chantcev

Level: 12

Blinds: 20,000/40,000

Ante: 40,000

09-11-2017 20:24 UTC+3

Banks Builds Further

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

Gary Banks is among the biggest stacks in the main room right now while the seat next to him is empty. That seat formerly belonged to PokerStars Championship Sochi champion Pavel Shirshikov and Banks added that the Russian four-bet all in with into his ace-king to bust in a battle of the blinds.

Ben Jackson was also spotted on his way out. His cards were already in the muck while Andrey Razov raked in the pot with for a straight on the board .

"Only suckouts on this table," Martin Kabrhel added, and engaged in table chat with Steve O'Dwyer to his left immediately after.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gary Banks	6,000,000 2,600,000	2,600,000
Andrey Razov	1,800,000 1,800,000	1,800,000
Ben Jackson	Busted
Pavel Shirshikov	Busted

Tags: Andrey Razov Ben Jackson Martin Kabrhel Pavel Shirshikov Steve O'Dwyer

09-11-2017 20:20 UTC+3

Updated Counts of the Main Room

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Aleksei Kozlov	5,100,000 1,900,000	1,900,000
Peter Smyth	5,100,000 300,000	300,000
Alexander Denisov	4,900,000 1,710,000	1,710,000
Sergei Petrushevskii	4,500,000 2,850,000	2,850,000
Gerald Karlic	4,400,000 700,000	700,000
Andrey Pateychuk	4,400,000 2,600,000	2,600,000

Florian-Dimitrie Duta	4,200,000 600,000	600,000
Govert Metaal	4,000,000 800,000	800,000
Boris Kotleba	3,900,000 1,200,000	1,200,000
Martin Kabrhel	3,700,000 300,000	300,000

Oleg Titov	3,500,000 400,000	400,000
Kenny Hallaert	3,300,000 650,000	650,000

Bertrand Grospellier	3,200,000 2,100,000	2,100,000

Andriena Nutt	3,200,000 1,624,000	1,624,000
Tarkan Karadas	3,100,000 3,100,000	3,100,000
Jeff Lisandro	2,900,000 300,000	300,000

Steve O'Dwyer	2,050,000 1,450,000	1,450,000

Terrance Green	2,000,000 2,000,000	2,000,000
Jeff Hakim	1,600,000 161,000	161,000
Philipp Zukernik	1,400,000 370,000	370,000

Oleg Egorov	1,100,000 900,000	900,000

09-11-2017 20:10 UTC+3

Field Starting to Crystallize

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Will Shillibier

Level 11 : 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

At the start of the day the tournament field was spread across two floors and four separate buildings of the Sochi Casino & Resort. Now that one of the rooms has emptied, the second room of tables is slowly starting to break into the main tournament room.

Among the players left at the five tables in the cash game area are Vitaly Lunkin, Eugene Katchalov, Marcin Chmielewski and Andreas Klatt.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andreas Klatt	2,900,000 2,280,000	2,280,000
Marcin Chmielewski	750,000 250,000	250,000
Eugene Katchalov	700,000 601,000	601,000

Vitaly Lunkin	200,000 1,250,000	1,250,000

09-11-2017 19:57 UTC+3

Table One With Big Names

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

The very corner table, number one in the main room to be precise, saw Jan-Peter Jachtmann start the day and the German has since built his stack slightly. Lika Gerasimova was there all day long also, while the likes of Pierre Neuville, Moritz Dietrich and Dzmitry Urbanovich all joined.

However, the big stack is Nikolay Kulemalin, after arriving and unwrapping five million to the two seat.

Dietrich then opened to 70,000 and Urbanovich three-bet to 180,000. Jachtmann folded from the big blind and Dietrich glanced at the stack of his table neighbor before coming to the same conclusion.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nikolay Kulemalin	5,000,000 4,148,000	4,148,000
Moritz Dietrich	2,900,000 1,500,000	1,500,000

Jan-Peter Jachtmann	2,400,000 200,000	200,000

Pierre Neuville	1,580,000 370,000	370,000
Lika Gerasimova	1,100,000 700,000	700,000
Dzmitry Urbanovich	975,000 345,000	345,000

Tags: Dzmitry Urbanovich Jan-Peter Jachtmann Lika Gerasimova Moritz Dietrich Nikolay Kulemalin Pierre Neuville

09-11-2017 19:49 UTC+3

Jacks for Abakhova and Melnikov

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

After a raise to 60,000 and a call by Manig Loeser, Oksana Abakhova called in the small blind. Aleksey Melnikov in the big blind three-bet to 330,000. The initial raiser was sent into the think tank and the clock was called to see him fold. Loeser folded anbd Abakhova called.

The flop of brought a check by Abakhova, a bet of 200,000 by Melnikov and a call. After the turn was checked through, Abakhova bet 300,000 and Melnikov sighed before tossing in the chips. Abakhova showed and Melnikov chopped it up with .

Player	Chips	Progress
Aleksey Melnikov	4,100,000 4,100,000	4,100,000
Oksana Abakhova	2,400,000 2,400,000	2,400,000
Manig Loeser	975,000 75,000	75,000

Tags: Alexey Melnikov Manig Loeser Oksana Abakhova

09-11-2017 19:36 UTC+3

Kings Crack Kings to Bust Zamyatin

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Will Shillibier

Level 11 : 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

A player raised to 65,000 from early position and another player called.

In the next position, Mikhail Zamyatin three-bet all in for 600,000. It folded to Vadim Kuvshinov on the button who four-bet all in for over one million chips.

The initial raiser and the other player folded face up, and the cards of the all in players were turned over.

Zamyatin:
Kuvshinov:

The player who folded Jacks set out a burst of Russian which sounded suspiciously like "Give me back my Jacks!" before the flop came .

"Freeroll," said another Russian at the table. The turn was the and the river the giving Kuvshinov his flush and eliminating Zamyatin.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vadim Kuvshinov	1,750,000
Mikhail Zamyatin	Busted

Tags: Mikhail Zamyatin Vadim Kuvshinov

09-11-2017 19:27 UTC+3

Atshemyan Busts Umarov

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

Roman Cieslik was waiting outside of the tournament area and explained that his shove for just two big blinds was called by six opponents. Cieslik flopped an open-ended straight draw with jack-ten but ultimately bricked to see an opponent with pocket sixes won the pot.

Alexander Matveev was among those to bust in the theatre and he was followed by Allmas Umarov. The player from Kazakhstan got it in with and Arman Atshemyan called with the . The board came to see Atshemyan get there on the river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Arman Atshemyan	2,000,000 1,430,000	1,430,000
Alexander Matveev	Busted
Roman Cieslik	Busted
Allmas Umarov	Busted

Tags: Alexander Matveev Allmas Umarov Arman Atshemyan Roman Cieslik

09-11-2017 19:22 UTC+3

Filatov Doubles

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

Soon after coming back from the break, Anatoly Filatov was all in and at risk for 800,000. Arut Lobyan called with the and Filatov's held up thanks to a board of .