Level: 2
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 7,000
Level: 2
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 7,000
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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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 | |
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Busted |
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 |
|---|---|---|
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2,400,000
2,400,000
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2,400,000 |
Maksim Pisarenko raised from early position and saw Jamie Nixon in middle position, [Removed:466] in the small blind and Gary Banks in the big blind call. On the ![]()
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flop, Rotach checked, Banks bet 69,000 and only Nixon called.
Heads-up to the
turn, both players checked to see the
turn. The action mirrored the turn as both players checked to showdown. Nixon revealed ![]()
for top two pair and Banks mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,200,000
200,000
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200,000 |
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1,000,000 | |
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1,000,000 | |
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750,000 | |
The players have gone on their first 15-minute break of the day.
Level: 3
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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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 | |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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27,000,000
24,600,000
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24,600,000 |
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2,300,000 | |
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2,300,000 | |
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650,000
650,000
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650,000 |
Aibek Lekerov was on the button and was able to get all of his chips into the middle preflop against Josef Snejberg in the small blind. But when Snejberg revealed pocket kings, Lekerov was in bad shape with ace-queen at risk of elimination.
However, the board came down ![]()
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, to give Lekerov top pair and reduce Snejberg to just 200,000, as Lekerov propelled his chip stack up to 1.8m.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,800,000 | |
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200,000 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
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1,000,000
1,000,000
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1,000,000 |