Main Event Day 1b | 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia

08-09-2018 01:21 UTC+3

Maksim Pisarenko Takes Day 1b Lead

AaronMcBride

Level 8 : 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

After another eight 60-minute levels were played out in the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event, Maksim Pisarenko bagged the biggest chip count worth 5,375,000.

When the registration period closed, there was a total of 186 entrants with 94 of those players lasting the full eight levels.

Alexandr Labunskiy (5,115,000), Alimbay Sultanov (5,110,000), Jessica Pilkington (4,900,000) and Dirk Bueker (4,510,000) all ended the day with healthy Day 2 stacks to bring back on Friday, August, 10.

Bueker's story is an interesting one after he qualified for the MILLIONS Main Event after winning two promotions. The German qualified online to play at the WSOPC event in Sochi and was the Golden Chip winner after outlasting all the other online qualifiers. Could he turn his story into one of the greats!? Only time will tell.

2017 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS champion Maria Lampropulos was also able to find a bag on her second bullet of the day.

The final starting flight Day 1c kicks-off on Thursday, August, 9 at Noon local time, with those who wish to skip it available to use the late registration period for the first three levels of Day 2 also.

PokerNews will be back tomorrow for continued coverage of the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Main Event Russia.

Tags: Dirk Bueker Jessica Pilkington Maksim Pisarenko Maria Lampropulos partypoker LIVE

08-08-2018 19:57 UTC+3

Main Event Recap at End of Day 1b

AaronMcBride

Level 7 : 9,000/18,000, 18,000 ante

Today sees the Triton Super High Roller Day 1 take place with a RUB6,000,000 (approximately $100,000) buy-in!

PokerNews will be switching our attention from the Main Event Day 1b over to the Super High Roller.

A recap and full end of day chip counts from Day 1b will be posted here at approximately 10:30 P.M. local time. In the meantime, PokerNews will keep up to date with the Day 1b eliminations over the final levels of the day.

08-08-2018 14:50 UTC+3

Birthday Boy Filatov in Action

AaronMcBride

Level 3 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

partypoker LIVE ambassador Anatoly Filatov has joined the Day 1b action on what is a very special day indeed. Filatov is celebrating his 30th birthday today and has the luxury of playing in the MILLIONS Main Event in his homeland of Russia.

Good luck to Anatoly today, and a very Happy Birthday!

Player	Chips	Progress
Anatoly Filatov	1,000,000	1,000,000

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08-08-2018 13:41 UTC+3

Zyrin Surges

AaronMcBride

Level 2 : 5,000/10,000, 7,000 ante

Anatoliy Zyrin, who came fourth in the 2017 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event for $300,000, has started well this year and is up to 2.4m chips already.

Zyrin is currently ranked 85th in the Russia all-time money list according to the Hendon Mob website and has a lifetime cashes total of $540,799.

Player	Chips	Progress
Anatoliy Zyrin	2,400,000	2,400,000

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08-08-2018 13:04 UTC+3

Ludo's In

AaronMcBride

Level 1 : 5,000/10,000, 5,000 ante

Brand new partypoker ambassador Ludovic Geilich is the latest player to join the Day 1b field.

Geilich has been in Sochi for the past few days taking in the atmosphere and also competed in the Open before taking his shot at the Main Event today.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ludovic Geilich	1,000,000	1,000,000

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08-08-2018 12:47 UTC+3

Urbanovich Leads Last 10 Into Final Day of the Open

Christian Zetzsche

Level 1 : 5,000/10,000, 5,000 ante

After starting as one of the shortest stack, partypoker ambassador Dzmitry Urbanovich shot up to the top of the leader board and is in prime position to claim the top prize of RUB10,800,000 in the RUB60,000+6,000 Open (~$1,050). The first major event of the 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia poker festival at the Sochi Casino and Resort attracted a field of exactly 1,000 entries and the top 119 spots were paid.

On Day 3, a total of 73 players returned to the tables of the new main poker room and a lot of big names were still in contention. Among them were Konstantin Puchkov, 2017 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event finalist Anatolii Zyrin, Vitaly Lunkin, Tatiana Barausova, Oleksii Kravchuk, Dragos Trofimov and MILLIONS champion Aleksandr Gofman. All of them busted throughout the day and Kravchuk entered Day 1A of the Main Event to claim the biggest stack. Gofman signed up for the Triton Poker High Roller and bagged up, but will return with just nine big blinds for the respective Day 2.

Puchkov flopped bottom two pair against the top pair of Georgi Shkulukhia, who turned the better two pair with ace-nine. Just before the end of the day, Tatiana Barausova was ousted by Orkhan Allahverdyev. She three-bet small preflop with and called a bet on a king-high flop before getting it in on the turn with a gutshot. Allahverdyev called with for top pair and held up.

Urbanovich won several big pots that propelled him to the lead, such as a flush over flush against Grair Nazaryan. The very same opponent then used six time bank extensions to fold pocket queens face up preflop when Urbanovich five-bet all in, and that capped off a very successful day for the partypoker ambassador.

All remaining ten finalists have RUB510,000 locked up for their efforts and the winner takes home RUB10,800,000. Action has recommenced at 12 p.m. local time with two five-handed tables and blinds of 1,200,000/2,500,000 with a button ante of 2,500,000. The chip counts of the final 10 can be found below:

Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
Dzmitry Urbanovich	Poland	169,100,000	68
Dmitriy Shutenko	Russia	144,000,000	58
Denis Kushnerov	Russia	142,000,000	57
Valeriy Avanesyan	Russia	124,800,000	50
Orkhan Allahverdiyev	Azerbaijan	105,100,000	42
Sedrak Bagdasaryan	Russia	97,600,000	39
Kirill Agapov	Russia	70,800,000	28
Eugene Galakhov	Russia	63,900,000	26
Mikhail Aleksandrov	Russia	45,200,000	18
Rufat Bekhbudov	Russia	29,600,000	12

A recap of the final day will be posted at the end of the night, and the live updates in Russian can be found on the Russian mypartypokerlive website.

Tags: Aleksandr Gofman Anatolii Zyrin Dragos Trofimov Dzmitry Urbanovich Konstantin Puchkov Oleksii Kravchuk partypoker LIVE Sochi Casino and Resort Tatiana Barausova Vitaly Lunkin

08-08-2018 10:34 UTC+3

Welcome to Day 1b of the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event

AaronMcBride

Good morning and welcome to Day 1b coverage of the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event which gets underway at Noon local time at the Sochi Casino and Resort.

Yesterday saw the completion of the first live flight as Day 1a attracted 201 entrants, with 106 taking chips forward to Day 2 on Friday, August, 10.

Today will match yesterday's structure, with eight 60-minute levels being played out before those who survive bag and tag their chips. When the action begins, all players will be sat with a 1million starting stack, with blinds in level one set at 5,000/10,000 with a 5,000 button ante.

Day 1 Blind Structure

Level	Small Blind	Big Blind	Button Ante
1	5,000	10,000	5,000
2	5,000	10,000	7,000
3	5,000	10,000	10,000
4	6,000	12,000	12,000
5	7,000	14,000	14,000
6	8,000	16,000	16,000
7	9,000	18,000	18,000
8	10,000	20,000	20,000

The Main Event comes with a RUB300,000+18,000 (~$4,900) buy-in and features a massive guarantee of 300 Million Russian Rubles (approximately $4.7 Million).

Ukrainian Oleksii Kravchuk is the man to beat so far after he bagged an impressive 5,055,000 last night. There is expected to be some big names and numbers taking part today with the likes of Maria Lampropulos in action yesterday, as well as several live satellites also completed.

PokerNews will bring you coverage of Day 1b alongside all the action in the Triton High Roller Day 2 (approx 1 p.m. local time) and the opening day of the Triton Super High Roller at approx. 5 p.m. local time. So be sure to check back in later on today for all the action at the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia!

Tags: Maria Lampropulos Oleksii Kravchuk partypoker LIVE Sochi Casino and Resort