2017 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia

Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2017 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
63
Prize
1,160,000 CU
Event Info
Buy-in
5,300 CU
Prize Pool
5,000,000 CU
Entries
999
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
2,500,000 / 5,000,000
Ante
5,000,000

Gary Banks With an Early Setback

Level 15 : 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante
Gary Banks
Gary Banks

There was a full board of {10-Spades}{q-Clubs}{9-Clubs}{8-Clubs}{8-Hearts} in a blind-on-blind confrontation between Gary Banks, who came into the day third in chips, and his opponent Andrey Berinov.

Banks checked to his opponent who bet 700,000 into a pot of around a million chips. Banks then check-raised to 1,950,000. Berinov thought for a while before calling.

Banks rechecked his hole cards before mucking face down, allowing Berinov to take down the pot uncontested.

Player Chips Progress
Gary Banks gb
Gary Banks
8,200,000 -2,250,000
Andrey Berinov ru
Andrey Berinov
7,700,000 2,350,000

Tags: Gary BanksAndrey Berinov

Three Down the Drain

Level 15 : 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante

Tarkan Karadas and Martin Weiemann were briefly chatting on the rail and both confirmed that they were out. Weiemann had to give up two hands and was left with six big blinds. He three-bet from the button against an open-raise by Igor Devkin and Aleksandr Shuvalov called in the big blind, as did Devkin.

Ultimately, Weiemann stood no chance with {A-}{8-} against the pocket kings of Shuvalov.

Pavel Ignatov has also been eliminated. He was all in with ace-queen and Pavel Fedchan called with {8-Hearts}{8-Spades}. The board ran out {J-Hearts}{6-Clubs}{2-Hearts}{Q-Hearts}{5-Hearts} to provide a flush for Fedchan and that was it for Ignatov.

Player Chips Progress
Aleksandr Shuvalov ru
Aleksandr Shuvalov
4,500,000 1,140,000
Pavel Fedchan ru
Pavel Fedchan
4,200,000 1,145,000
Martin Weiemann de
Martin Weiemann
Busted
Tarkan Karadas at
Tarkan Karadas
Busted
Pavel Ignatov ru
Pavel Ignatov
Busted

Tags: Aleksandr ShuvalovIgor DevkinMartin WeiemannPavel FedchanPavel IgnatovTarkan Karadas

Abilkassym and Kudinov Eliminated

Level 15 : 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante

Nursultan Abilkassym moved all in with {K-}{Q-} and was drawing dead on the turn after table neighbor Zdenek Mach's {K-Clubs}{K-Spades} scored the first knockout of the day.

A few tables over, fellow short stack Viktor Kudinov was the next to fall. Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy opened to 160,000 and Kudinov shoved. Gurgen Mkhitaryan from one seat over called, but folded to the 1.2 million reraise by Merzhvinsky.

Kudinov showed {J-Diamonds}{10-Spades} and had two live cards against the {A-Diamonds}{Q-Hearts} of Merzvhinskiy, however the nine-high board provided no help.

Player Chips Progress
Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy ru
Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy
9,800,000 845,000
Gurgen Mkhitaryan am
Gurgen Mkhitaryan
6,000,000 -475,000
Zdenek Mach cz
Zdenek Mach
3,600,000 630,000
Nursultan Abilkassym kz
Nursultan Abilkassym
Busted
Viktor Kudinov ru
Viktor Kudinov
Busted

Tags: Aleksandr MerzhvinskiyGurgen MkhitaryanNursultan AbilkassymViktor KudinovZdenek Mach

Level: 15

Blinds: 40,000/80,000

Ante: 80,000

partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event Day 3 Starts Close to the Money Bubble

Johny Lodden among the big stacks heading into Day 3
Johny Lodden among the big stacks heading into Day 3

Welcome to Day 3 of the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event!

Today 227 players will come back to the Sochi Casino & Resort to continue on their quest to secure a slice of the $5m guaranteed prizepool, and they will be lead by Sergey Verkhoturov, who is the only player over 11 million in chips.

The money bubble is expected to burst in the first or second level of the day, and a min-cash in this record-breaking tournament, the largest in Russian poker history, will earn players 5,800 Casino Sochi Units (CSU) or approximately $5,000.

If they were to go on to take down this monster 999-man tournament, they would walk away with 1,160,000 CSU or $1,000,000.

Here are the full list of payouts:

PlacePrize in Casino Units~ Prize in USD
11,160,000$1,000,000
2696,000$600,000
3464,000$400,000
4348,000$300,000
5232,000$200,000
6174,000$150,000
7121,800$105,000
881,200$70,000
958,000$50,000
10-1246,400$40,000
13-1540,600$35,000
16-1834,800$30,000
19-2729,000$25,000
28-3626,100$22,500
37-4523,200$20,000
46-5420,300$17,500
55-6317,400$15,000
64-7214,500$12,500
73-9911,600$10,000
100-1268,700$7,500
127-1615,800$5,000

The plan for today is to play seven levels, and here is the structure:

LevelClock (mins)Small BlindBig BlindButton Ante
157540,00080,00080,000
167550,000100,000100,000
177560,000120,000120,000
187580,000160,000160,000
1975100,000200,000200,000
2075125,000250,000250,000
2175150,000300,000300,000

As well as the Main Event there is also a $1m guaranteed 8-Max side event with starting days at noon 6 p.m. local time for players to try their hand at for only $2,500+200.

Stay tuned to PokerNews.com for all the live updates as the Main Event continues.

Day 3 Seat Draw

TableSeatPlayerCountryChip CountBig Blinds
11Said ButbaRussia5,670,00071
12Mehmet KolguTurkey1,490,00019
13Viktoriya ShalnevaRussia6,150,00077
14Sergey AnanyevRussia2,260,00028
15Vytautas MilbutasLithuania5,405,00068
16Aleksey KovalevRussia5,250,00066
17Aleksandra BabichRussia635,0008
18Andrey ArefievRussia765,00010
19Gurkan GurgorenTurkey3,050,00038
      
21Oleksiy KravchukUkraine4,070,00051
22Leonid LogunovRussia6,235,00078
23Vadim KimRussia5,470,00068
24Andrey MalyshevRussia3,725,00047
25Konstantin ChursinRussia1,935,00024
26Dmitriy GolyshevRussia4,395,00055
27Yevgeny KafelnikovRussia5,225,00065
28Alexander DenisovRussia3,670,00046
29Aleksandr BiryukovRussia1,250,00016
      
31Yuriy TuzovRussia139,0002
32Dmitry GromovRussia2,675,00033
33Mark MccluskeyUnited Kingdom4,680,00059
34Maksim SkripkinRussia2,015,00025
35Thomas HortonIreland725,0009
36Petr SonUzbekistan4,555,00057
37Oleg TitovRussia5,875,00073
38Khasan BorokovRussia6,200,00078
39Ilyaz DosikovRussia2,000,00025
      
41Lev MoiseyenkoRussia2,410,00030
42Govert MetaalNetherlands5,640,00071
43Alexander KrasuntcevRussia10,350,000129
44Timofey VekshinRussia4,560,00057
45Ilya KochnevRussia4,650,00058
46Nikita BochkinRussia915,00011
47Igor MochalovUkraine1,975,00025
48Vasiliy KurdinRussia1,050,00013
49Andrey KaygorodtsevRussia1,044,00013
      
51David CoatesUnited Kingdom6,545,00082
52Richard DubiniArgentina4,715,00059
53Armen KhachatryanRussia8,075,000101
54Andrey ChernokozRussia2,695,00034
55Jack SinclairUnited Kingdom1,780,00022
56Andreas KlattGermany5,400,00068
57Sergey TerentyevRussia1,465,00018
58Vyacheslav IvanovRussia8,765,000110
59Konstantinos NanosGreece2,550,00032
      
61Andrey PateychukRussia7,465,00093
62Vladimir TroyanovskiyRussia6,480,00081
63Artur SimonyanRussia760,00010
64Igor AbelmasovRussia6,860,00086
65Andriena NuttUnited Kingdom3,802,00048
66Konstantin GeneralovRussia2,600,00033
67Anatoliy FilonenkoUkraine3,660,00046
68Dmitry ChopUkraine5,000,00063
69Dzmitry UrbanovichPoland2,410,00030
      
71Oleksandr RozumovskiyUkraine1,380,00017
72Arsen KarmanukyanRussia2,115,00026
73Lyudmila RudovaRussia2,035,00025
74Kelly InceUnited Kingdom1,400,00018
75Anvar MuratovRussia1,020,00013
76Petr GabyshevRussia1,500,00019
77Rafal GontarczykPoland3,140,00039
78Markus RossGermany1,850,00023
79Tarkan KaradasAustria2,010,00025
      
81Sergey BelousBelarus4,400,00055
82Nikolay ProkhorskiyRussia6,115,00076
83Roman KorniyenkoRussia2,650,00033
84Yakov MushailovRussia1,850,00023
85Vahe MartirosyanArmenia3,430,00043
86Shyngis SatubayevKazakhstan2,325,00029
87Matt EardleyUnited Kingdom4,900,00061
88Vitaliy AvanesyanRussia1,100,00014
89Aleksey MilitsaRussia1,810,00023
      
91David LakaSpain2,960,00037
92Denis TimofeyevRussia6,445,00081
93Dmitriy MakarovRussia4,125,00052
94Sergey VerkhoturovBelarus11,050,000138
95Thomer PidunGermany4,425,00055
96Dmitriy GrishinRussia1,590,00020
97Aliaksandr MaistrenkaBelarus5,935,00074
98Johnny LoddenNorway6,900,00086
99Karen KaramanovRussia4,485,00056
      
101Georgiy BanduraRussia2,125,00027
102Jussi SiikaahoFinland3,370,00042
103Oleg ManylovRussia2,915,00036
104Aleksandr GofmanRussia5,960,00075
105Jeff LisandroAustralia5,335,00067
106Vladimir GeshkenbeinRussia6,500,00081
107Michael SklenickaCzech Republic8,315,000104
108Petre IonescuRomania3,550,00044
109Alexey TsessarskiyRussia6,785,00085
      
111David ArutyunyanRussia4,080,00051
112Anatoliy ShershnevRussia1,620,00020
113Andrey AndreevRussia8,525,000107
114Aleksei IstominRussia8,390,000105
115Anton YakubaRussia7,210,00090
116Bertrand GrospellierFrance4,130,00052
117Pavel KovalenkoRussia4,440,00056
118Ilya GorodetskiyRussia1,635,00020
119Andrey TkachenkoRussia3,545,00044
      
121Andrey BerinovRussia5,350,00067
122Artem BerylandUkraine3,745,00047
123Vitaly VolovRussia2,255,00028
124Daria FeshchenkoRussia2,210,00028
125Yunus TuguzRussia2,700,00034
126Yury MasliankouBelarus10,905,000136
127Aleksey GorodnichevRussia1,050,00013
128Jeff HakimLebanon1,850,00023
129Gary BanksUnited Kingdom10,450,000131
      
131Ivan BorisovRussia1,315,00016
132Andrey ChusovitinRussia4,685,00059
133Mikhail MedvedevRussia2,125,00027
134Eduards KudrjavcevsLatvia5,625,00070
135Zamir AdzhiyevRussia1,000,00013
136Vadim LipovkaBelarus3,245,00041
137Aleksey ZakharovRussia2,000,00025
138Igor SharaskinRussia4,285,00054
139Peter SmythUnited Kingdom4,430,00055
      
141Sergey LeonichevUkraine1,830,00023
142Ilya BorisovRussia1,370,00017
143Andrey RazovRussia4,100,00051
144Yevgeniy KochetkovRussia2,905,00036
145Ivan MischenkoRussia1,560,00020
146Mikhail SurinRussia4,900,00061
147Ivan PashutskiyRussia2,580,00032
148Maksim TyurinRussia3,100,00039
149Viktor PodofedenkoRussia2,895,00036
      
151Vyacheslav StoyanovRussia3,920,00049
152Sergey ChantcevRussia6,450,00081
153Mikhail GalitskiyRussia2,220,00028
154Arkady StekolshikovRussia6,695,00084
155Dmitriy ShalnevRussia1,400,00018
156Alexandr RazbenkovRussia2,775,00035
157Philipp ZukernikCanada3,330,00042
158Paul JacksonUnited Kingdom3,995,00050
159Yevgeniy AlikinRussia895,00011
      
161Andrey GulyyRussia1,550,00019
162Viktor KudinovRussia355,0004
163Gurgen MkhitaryanArmenia6,475,00081
164Oleg EgorovRussia5,430,00068
165Sergei PetrushevskiiRussia6,605,00083
166Ivan ShulgaRussia4,220,00053
167Gylbert DroletCanada3,500,00044
168Aleksandr MerzhvinskiyRussia8,955,000112
169Sergey NikiforovRussia2,330,00029
      
171Vyacheslav GoryachevRussia4,040,00051
172Siarhei PrymachonakBelarus2,780,00035
173Sergey TikhonovRussia645,0008
174Aleksey DavidovichBelarus4,335,00054
175Igor DevkinRussia3,490,00044
176Martin WeiemannGermany900,00011
177Maksim PitsanRussia3,295,00041
178Aleksandr ShuvalovRussia3,360,00042
179Aleksandr LevashovRussia4,725,00059
      
181Natalia PanchenkoRussia3,470,00043
182Fedor AlgazinRussia7,450,00093
183Mikhail PokhlebayevRussia1,820,00023
184Benjamin ChalotHungary7,980,000100
185Maxim BabkoCanada8,170,000102
186Denis TenRussia2,770,00035
187Svyatoslav DesimovRussia1,735,00022
188Petr BartagovRussia1,240,00016
189Vadim VolkhonskyRussia4,165,00052
      
191Andrey KozlenkoRussia8,265,000103
192Nursultan AbilkassymKazakhstan525,0007
193Zdenek MachCzech Republic2,970,00040
194Denis KrasavinRussia7,015,00088
195Aleksandr TerentievRussia2,170,00027
196Andrey DemidovRussia3,165,00040
197Aleksandr PlyatsokRussia2,090,00026
198Kenny HallaertBelgium4,520,00057
199Oleg ZhdanRussia4,225,00053
      
201Andrey NovakRussia2,850,00036
202Alexander ZubovRussia2,710,00034
203Aleksandr GirsBelarus2,445,00031
205Aleksey OpalikhinRussia1,760,00022
206Steve O'DwyerIreland5,690,00071
207Siamion AhrafeninBelarus8,125,000102
208Anatoliy ZuyevRussia2,635,00033
209Vadim BulgakovRussia1,615,00020
      
211Sergey LomakinRussia4,000,00050
212Timur KhamidullinRussia6,435,00080
213Sergey KislinskiyRussia4,555,00057
214Pavel IgnatovRussia1,160,00015
215Christian NolteGermany2,735,00034
216Badra BazbaRussia6,310,00079
217Pavel FedchanRussia3,055,00038
219Maxim LykovRussia1,950,00024
      
221Anatoly FilatovRussia3,500,00044
222Karen ArutyunyanRussia4,550,00057
224Leonid SidelkovskiyRussia1,025,00013
225Aleksey MakarovRussia1,270,00016
226Dmitriy PoberzhnyyRussia1,765,00022
227Manig LoeserGermany4,350,00054
228Sofya MerkulovaRussia2,875,00036
229Liliya NovikovaRussia806,00010
      
231Sylvia HewittUnited Kingdom3,125,00039
232Artem BabakhanyanRussia3,040,00038
233Ivan ArbatskyRussia8,950,000112
234Aleksei KozlovRussia4,875,00061
235Oleg PavlyuchukRussia2,160,00027
237Nikolay AdabekyanRussia5,610,00070
238Nikolay KulemalinRussia3,800,00048
239Dmitriy KopylRussia255,0003
      
241Anton PetrovRussia430,0005
242Aleksey KarevRussia2,465,00031
243Aleksandr ChernikovRussia4,615,00058
244Petr MachacekCzech Republic4,625,00058
246Igor KasyanovRussia4,570,00057
247Gleb TremzinRussia4,500,00056
248Natalya YakovlevaRussia1,670,00021
249Anatoliy ZyrinRussia6,270,00078
      
251Kirill KruglovIRussia2,820,00035
252Sergey TsoyUzbekistan3,760,00047
254Andrey VerbovskiyRussia2,150,00027
255Moritz DietrichAustria3,500,00044
256Pavel FrolovRussia5,760,00072
257Alexander MatveevRussia1,680,00021
258Oleg ChebotarevRussia3,120,00039
259Anton ZaytsevRussia3,050,00038
      
261Lev MnatsakanyanRussia4,400,00055
262Konstantin PuchkovRussia8,635,000108
263Ekaterina KolobekovaRussia2,460,00031
264Boris KotlebaSlovakia3,220,00040
265Alimbay SultanovKazakhstan8,100,000101
266Sergey ChupodalRussia5,955,00074
267Dmitriy SelivanovRussia2,135,00027
268Daniel ClarkUnited Kingdom6,310,00079

Main Event

Day 3 Started

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