2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia

Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
j10
Prize
60,000,000 RUB
Event Info
Buy-in
318,000 RUB
Prize Pool
300,000,000 RUB
Entries
916
Level Info
Level
45
Blinds
6,000,000 / 12,000,000
Ante
12,000,000

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

Casino Sochi Tournament Room
Casino Sochi Tournament Room

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

LevelSmall BlindBig BlindButton Ante
15,00010,0005,000
25,00010,0007,000
35,00010,00010,000
46,00012,00012,000
57,00014,00014,000
68,00016,00016,000
79,00018,00018,000
810,00020,00020,000

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!

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Urbanovich Leads Last 10 Into Final Day of the Open

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

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 {A-Hearts}{Q-Hearts} and called a bet on a king-high flop before getting it in on the {J-Spades} turn with a gutshot. Allahverdyev called with {K-Spades}{10-Spades} 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:

PlayerCountryChip CountBig Blinds
Dzmitry UrbanovichPoland169,100,00068
Dmitriy ShutenkoRussia144,000,00058
Denis KushnerovRussia142,000,00057
Valeriy AvanesyanRussia124,800,00050
Orkhan AllahverdiyevAzerbaijan105,100,00042
Sedrak BagdasaryanRussia97,600,00039
Kirill AgapovRussia70,800,00028
Eugene GalakhovRussia63,900,00026
Mikhail AleksandrovRussia45,200,00018
Rufat BekhbudovRussia29,600,00012

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 GofmanAnatolii ZyrinDragos TrofimovDzmitry UrbanovichKonstantin PuchkovOleksii Kravchukpartypoker LIVESochi Casino and ResortTatiana BarausovaVitaly Lunkin

Ludo's In

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

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
Profile photo of Ludovic Geilich gb
Ludovic Geilich
1,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000

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Zyrin Surges

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

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
Profile photo of Anatoliy Zyrin ru
Anatoliy Zyrin
2,400,000
2,400,000
2,400,000

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Birthday Boy Filatov in Action

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

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
Profile photo of Anatoly Filatov ru
Anatoly Filatov
1,000,000
1,000,000
1,000,000

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Main Event Recap at End of Day 1b

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

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.

Maksim Pisarenko Takes Day 1b Lead

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

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.

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