Level: 18
Blinds: 80,000/160,000
Ante: 160,000
Level: 18
Blinds: 80,000/160,000
Ante: 160,000
Sergey Kislinskiy raised to 320,000 from early position and Ivan Arbatsky three-bet to 950,000 in the hijack. Kislinskiy moved all in for what appeared to be 2,950,000 and Arbatsky called. Once all other tables were finished with the action, the cards were turned over.
Sergey Kislinskiy: ![]()
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Ivan Arbatsky: ![]()
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The board of ![]()
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brought the first casualty during hand-for-hand mode and a table will now break before the stone cold money bubble continues.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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18,000,000
6,000,000
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6,000,000 |
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Busted |
There were two all in and call on the money bubble and one of them involved Anatoliy Filonenko and Andrey Pateychuk. The former had opened to 325,000, faced a three-bet to one million and called the four-bet shove of Filonenko for 4,730,000.
Andrey Pateychuk: ![]()
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Anatoliy Filonenko: ![]()
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The ![]()
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flop was a massive sweat, but both the
turn and
river bricked to let Pateychuk double. Once the bubble bursts, this table will be moving to the feature with the live stream of the action on a half an hour security delay. Daniel Clark, Steve O'Dwyer and Dzmitry Urbanovich will also be among those in the spotlight shortly.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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12,500,000
500,000
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500,000 |
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9,600,000
5,100,000
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5,100,000 |
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On the direct money bubble it folded to Markus Ross in the small blind who moved all in for his last 1,625,000. Pavel Frolov was in the big blind with a stack of around five million and called.
Ross: ![]()
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Frolov: ![]()
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The board ran out ![]()
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with Ross dead by the turn, and he would be our Main Event bubble boy. The remaining 161 players are all guaranteed 5,800 Casino Sochi Units (CSU) or approximately $5,000.

| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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6,200,000
440,000
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440,000 |
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Busted |
The feature table is set up and ready to go, and all tables now continue with 54 minutes left in the current level and until the dinner break.
Natalia Panchenko moved all in for 2,265,000 and Benjamin Chalot called in the cutoff.
Natalia Panchenko: ![]()
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Benjamin Chalot: ![]()
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The board came ![]()
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and Panchenko became the first casualty in the money, further players are expected to join her very shortly.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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11,000,000
3,020,000
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3,020,000 |
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Busted |
Among the next players to bust was also Mikhail Galitskiy, who shoved for around 800,000 with the ![]()
. Philipp Zukernik called with the ![]()
and the board came ![]()
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to eliminate Galitskiy.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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13,000,000
4,000,000
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4,000,000 |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
It folded to Igor Kasyanov who moved all in from the hijack for 635,000. Jeff Lisandro was in the big blind.
"If you have an over pair, I'm 25%," he said, "If you have Ace-King, I'm 42%"
Eventually he called. Kasyanov showed ![]()
and Lisandro ![]()
.
The flop was a good one for Lisandro coming ![]()
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.
"Still got to suffer!" he said, noticing Kasyanov's Ace of Hearts. The turn was the
and the river the
and Kasyanov was eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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6,000,000
400,000
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400,000 |
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Busted | |
On the heads-up turn of ![]()
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, Sergei Petrushevskii got his remaining 1.2 million in with ![]()
and was in need of a jack. Sergey Chupodal had turned trips with ![]()
and the
river was a blank. Further bustouts can be found below.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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12,000,000
6,045,000
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6,045,000 |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Yuriy Tuzov had woken up with ![]()
and was up against the ![]()
of Thomas Horton.
The Irishman watched as the board came ![]()
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, giving his Jacks no help, and eliminating him inside the money.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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10,300,000
8,910,000
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8,910,000 |
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Busted |