Main Event
Day 1b Started
2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia
Buy-in
318,000 RUB
Prize Pool
300,000,000 RUB
Entries
916
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
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!
Level: 1
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 5,000
Shuffle Up and Deal
Level 1
: 5,000/10,000, 5,000 ante
Day 1b of the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event is underway at the Sochi Casino and Resort.
Faces in the Field
Level 1
: 5,000/10,000, 5,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,000,000 | |
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1,000,000 | |
|
1,000,000 | |
|
1,000,000 | |
|
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
|
1,000,000 | |
|
|
1,000,000 | |
|
1,000,000 | |
|
1,000,000 | |
|
1,000,000 | |
|
|
1,000,000 | |
|
|
1,000,000 | |
|
1,000,000 |
Golden Chip Winner Bueker Joins
Level 1
: 5,000/10,000, 5,000 ante
Among the Day 1b, starting field is German player Dirk Bueker who has a unique story about how he found his way to the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event today.
Bueker who a promotion online at partypoker to play at the Sochi Casino Circuit event earlier this year and was part of the Golden Chip last long promotion. Well, Bueker saw his luck continue as he was the last player standing with a Golden Chip and won entry into today's Day 1b MILLION Main Event.
Can he complete the ultimate qualifier story and go all the way in Russia?...
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
Enter ElkY
Level 1
: 5,000/10,000, 5,000 ante
partypoker ambassador Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier has added his name to the Day 1b entries list during level one.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,000,000 | |
|
1,000,000 | |
|
1,000,000 | |
|
1,000,000 | |
|
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
|
1,000,000 |
Urbanovich Leads Last 10 Into Final Day of the Open
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.
Troyanovskiy an Early Exit
Level 1
: 5,000/10,000, 5,000 ante
Viktor Troyanovskiy found himself down to around 350,000 early on in this first level and then had the misfortune to run his ace-queen suited into the aces of Igor Sharaskin.
Sharakin himself had found the proceedings difficult from the off as he only had a 300,000 stack behind him before the start of the hand. But his aces held to secure a full double with Troyanovskiy left with only 54,000.
Just a couple of hands later Troyanovskiy moved all in from early position and was called by the player in the big blind. Troyanovskiy tabled 
and was up against 
. The board was no help for Troyanovskiy, and he exited Day 1b within the first 45 minutes of play.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
700,000 | 700,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Ludo's In
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 |
|---|---|---|
|
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |