The eliminations keep coming at an electric pace and among those to bust were Sergey Chentcev and David Coates. The latter reported a hand that saw him bust in unfortunate fashion against Armen Khachatryan.
According to Coates, Khachatryan raised to 350,000 and two players called including Coates in the big blind. The Brit check-shoved the flop for 1.6 million and Khachatryan called after having bet 450,000.
Coates tabled for the nut flush draw and Khachatryan showed for a gutshot. The turn and river gave Khachatryan a flush and Coates was gone.
The live stream of the feature table should start soon on a delay of 30 minutes and Ilya Gorodetskiy had joked previously that he will soon be on his commentator duties. Indeed he just walked over to the payout desk after running out of chips and he was joined there by Manig Loeser and Petr Machacek.
Oleg Egorov was all in and at risk with pocket sevens and Mark Mccluskey had an almost identical stack and the far superior . The board came .
Egorov was barely gone when Maksim Skripkin raised and called the shove of Khasan Borokov for 1.7 million with . Borokov had , but failed to hold up on a board of .
Last but not least, Andrey Andreev was waiting at the payout desk moments later as well.
Among those to bust before the dinner were Vyacheslav Goryachev, Konstantin Generalov and Vladimir Geshkenbein.
The latter was in fact the last player to join the rail before everyone headed out of the tournament area and Maxim Babko confirmed what had happened. According to the Canadian, who also holds a Russian passport, there was a raise to 350,000 and Babko three-bet to 825,000. Geshkenbein four-bet to two million in the big blind, forcing out the initial raiser, while Babko immediately pushed for effectively 7.2 million and an almost even stack.
Geshkenbein called it off with pocket eights and Babko had ace-king, spiking not just one but two aces on the flop to eliminate Geshkenbein.
The 126 players left in the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event are going on a 60-minute dinner break. When they return the blinds will be 100,000/200,000 with a button ante of 200,000 at approximately 6.40 p.m. local time.
Yuriy Tuzov opened to 450,000 on the button and Mikhail Surin three-bet to 1.2 million from the small blind. Tuzov called and the flop of was checked. On the turn, Surin bet 1.6 million and Tuzov quickly folded.
Just one hand later, Surin picked up ace-king and Mark Mccluskey's ace-queen ended up second best. Mccluskey was eliminated and Surin chipped up some more.
A short-stack doubled for 950,000 through Sylvia Hewitt when his got there versus on a board of .
Hewitt then scored a double up soon after when she shoved with queen-jack and Aleksandr Chernikov called with ace-king. A ten-nine high flop gave Hewitt a plenty of outs and she spiked a queen on the river to double.
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flop for 1.6 million and Khachatryan called after having bet 450,000.
for the nut flush draw and Khachatryan showed 
for a gutshot. The 
turn and 
river gave Khachatryan a flush and Coates was gone.
, and with around two million chips in the pot already, Andrey Berinov checked to Zyrin who bet a cool two million chips.
for a stone cold bluff, while Berinov took down the pot with 
. The board came 
. Borokov had 
, but failed to hold up on a board of 
got there versus 
.
