In the Triton Poker room, Rafail Sushkin raised to 50,000 in the cutoff and Mikhail Surin three-bet to 125,000 on the button, Sushkin called. On the flop, Sushkin check-called a bet of 100,000 and did so again for 300,000 on the turn. The river brought a bet of 400,000 by Sushkin and Surin gave it some thought before raising it up to 1,100,000.
On the heads-up flop of , Andrey Andreev checked and called a bet of 150,000 by Alimbay Sultanov. The turn was checked through and the fell on the river. Andreev checked again and Sultanov made it 170,000 to go.
Andreev mucked and Sultanov flashed his cards to his opponent, it was the for quads! Sultanov jumped up to more than six million and appears to be among the chip leaders.
Over on the feature table, Sergey Shaulskiy raised to 45,000 from early position With and Aymon Hata called with the to flop top pair on . Hata check-called a bet of 30,000 and the turn was checked. Hata bet the river for 65,000 and Shaulskiy called to see the bad news.
The table also features Jiri Horak with a decent stack.
On the tail end of a bigger pot on the table of Igor Yaroshevskyy, the board showed and Denis Pavlenko bet 335,000 to pick up a call from his sole opponent Iosif Beskrovniy. Pavlenko tabled the for the nut flush and his opponent only had for top pair.
Daria Feshchenko bet the turn for 125,000 and Jack Sinclair called on the button. Feshchenko then shoved the river for 350,000 and Sinclair folded with a very similar stack size behind.
One table over, Aleksandr Shevelev called all in for a mere 125,000 in the big blind and faced Natalia Panchenko in early position.
Aleksandr Shevelev:
Natalia Panchenko:
The board came and Shevelev was eliminated for now, but may re-enter until the end of the fourth level of the day, still.
Last but not least, Maxim Lykov, who re-entered today, was involved in a bigger pot with Sergey Ananev. The flop showed and Ananev checked in middle position, then called a bet of 200,000 by Lykov. On the turn, Ananev checked once more and a second barrel of Lykov for 275,000 did the trick to claim the pot uncontested.
Rickie Silcock opened the action with a raise from middle position, and only Alexey Melnikov made the call from the big blind. Both players checked on the flop, and after the turn was revealed to be the , Melnikov bet 60,000. Silcock made the call, and the river card was the . Melnikov continued to bet, this time for 115,000. Silcock gave himself some time to think before he made the call.
Melnikov flipped over for trips and got the pot after Silcock mucked.
Andrey Zaichenko raised from early position to 50,000 and Shyngis Satubayev three-bet to 150,000 from the cutoff and Andrey Pateychuk in the big blind pushed all in for 570,000. Zaichenko folded and Satubayev gave it a minute to think about the decision. Zaichenko called the clock on him and Satubayev then called right away.
Andrey Pateychuk:
Shyngis Satubayev:
The board came and Satubayev got there on the turn to send Pateychuk to the rail, who almost immediately re-entered and headed to the main hall.