Main Event
Day 3 Completed
2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia
Main Event
Day: 3
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
Kazaryan Takes Lead into Day 4; 58 Players Remain
Level 24
: 150,000/300,000, 300,000 ante
Day 3 of the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event has come to an end with 58 players coming back to the Sochi Casino at Noon Sunday, August, 12.
Two-hundred players sat down at the start of the day, with the first aim being to make the top 119 places and a spot in the money. It wasn't until midway through the fifth level of the day that Konstantin Puchkov was confirmed as the bubble boy.
Gor Kazaryan will come back as the chip leader after he bagged 45,250,000 with Luke Thursfield (41,575,000), Maxim Panyak (37,875,000), Konstantin Uspenskii (35,250,000), Viacheslav Zhukov (30,800,000), and Aleksandr Chernikov (30,500,000) all coming back with big stacks.
Russian partypoker ambassador Anatoly Filatov playing in his home MILLIONS event will also be back for Day 4 with a stack worth 30,000,000.
He is joined by further notablöes such as Chin Wei Lim (19,825,000), 2017 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event finalist Vadim Lipovka (18,075,000), Niall Farrell (14,150,000), Denis Pisarev (11,000,000), Timothy Adams (9,925,000), Artem Metalidi (4,325,000), and Vladimir Troyanovskiy (9,450,000) will also return.
Day 3 Action
When the action got underway, there were several high profile exits in the early levels including Day 1d chip leader Dmitry Yurasov, the U.K.'s Jack Sinclair and former partypoker MILLIONS champion Maria Lampropulos. Yurasov came into the day with just over four million chips but was unable to spin it up, and Sinclair had the same fate after he ran pocket kings into pocket aces in the second level of the day.
Defending partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia champion Aleksandr Gofman was also on the receiving end of a bad beat with pocket kings after he saw his opponent's ace-queen hit top pair on the board to leave Gofman very short and just a few hands later his dream of back-to-back titles was over.
Dirk Bueker, the online qualifier turned Golden Chip winner, was unable to turn his free entry in the Main Event into a profit after he ran pocket queens into pocket kings to exit before the money bubble had burst.
When the final 123 players remained, the action in the Sochi Casino Poker Room went hand-for-hand with four eliminations needed before the final 119 were in the money.
A triple elimination in a single round of hands saw well-known players Igor Yaroshevskyy, Koray Aldemir and Manig Loeser depart after they all lost their respective all ins across three tables, which meant it was the stone cold bubble time. Short stack Aleksandr Babich put his tournament life on the line and hit on the river to survive, but Puchkov didn't have such luck just a few hands later when his ace-king all in was called by Oleksii Kravchuk with pocket queens. Puchkov found no help on the board, and he was confirmed as the bubble boy.
As expected a flurry of exits occurred after the bubble burst including partypoker ambassador Philipp Gruissem, Jessica Pilkington, and Day 1C chip leader Hadi Khordbin, who saw his pocket aces cracked by the pocket sixes of Kazaryan.
PokerNews will be back with all the Day 4 action as the players aim to make the final day, so be sure to tune back in from Noon.
Main Event Day 4 Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Proper | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 1 | Shukhrat Salikhov | Uzbekistan | 9,000,000 | 26 |
| 38 | 2 | Vyacheslav Nikulin | Russia | 12,950,000 | 37 |
| 38 | 3 | Robbie Robinson | United Kingdom | 3,150,000 | 9 |
| 38 | 4 | Gleb Tremzin | Russia | 8,425,000 | 24 |
| 38 | 5 | Andrey Ivlev | Russia | 12,850,000 | 37 |
| 38 | 6 | Aleksandr Denisov | Russia | 9,350,000 | 27 |
| 38 | 7 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 9,925,000 | 28 |
| 38 | 8 | Niall Farrell | Scotland | 14,150,000 | 40 |
| 39 | 1 | Mikhail Galitskiy | Russia | 29,400,000 | 84 |
| 39 | 2 | Anton Sazonau | Belarus | 20,000,000 | 57 |
| 39 | 3 | Oleg Netaliev | Russia | 19,800,000 | 57 |
| 39 | 4 | Gor Kazaryan | Russia | 45,250,000 | 129 |
| 39 | 5 | Artem Metalidi | Ukraine | 4,325,000 | 12 |
| 39 | 6 | Oleksii Kravchuk | Ukraine | 9,725,000 | 28 |
| 39 | 7 | Anton Pronin | Russia | 15,950,000 | 46 |
| 39 | 8 | Aben Zholgaliev | Kazakhstan | 4,250,000 | 12 |
| 40 | 1 | Igor Ovcharenko | Russia | 14,750,000 | 42 |
| 40 | 2 | Mikhail Surin | Russia | 5,900,000 | 17 |
| 40 | 3 | Denis Pisarev | Russia | 11,000,000 | 31 |
| 40 | 4 | Vadim Lipovka | Belarus | 18,075,000 | 52 |
| 40 | 5 | Viktor Khodorenko | Belarus | 13,350,000 | 38 |
| 40 | 7 | Andrey Kotelnikov | Russia | 6,800,000 | 19 |
| 40 | 8 | Andrii Novak | Ukraine | 11,100,000 | 32 |
| 41 | 1 | Maksim Pak | Russia | 12,975,000 | 37 |
| 41 | 2 | Aleksandr Levashov | Russia | 15,800,000 | 45 |
| 41 | 4 | Andrey Malyshev | Russia | 10,975,000 | 31 |
| 41 | 5 | Viacheslav Zhukov | Russia | 30,800,000 | 88 |
| 41 | 6 | Vlada Stojanovic | Serbia | 5,300,000 | 15 |
| 41 | 7 | Maksin Misura | Russia | 8,850,000 | 25 |
| 41 | 8 | Saar Wilf | Israel | 14,480,000 | 41 |
| 42 | 1 | Aleksei Istomin | Russia | 21,975,000 | 63 |
| 42 | 2 | Ekaterina Fedyaeva | Russia | 14,750,000 | 42 |
| 42 | 3 | Anatoly Filatov | Russia | 30,000,000 | 86 |
| 42 | 4 | Alexsandr Gukov | Russia | 8,875,000 | 25 |
| 42 | 6 | Said Butba | Russia | 24,125,000 | 69 |
| 42 | 7 | Vahe Martirosyan | Armenia | 11,800,000 | 34 |
| 42 | 8 | Viktor Mukhin | Russia | 3,200,000 | 9 |
| 43 | 1 | Colin Mctaggart | United Kingdom | 6,100,000 | 17 |
| 43 | 3 | Aleksandr Chernikov | Russia | 30,500,000 | 87 |
| 43 | 4 | Roman Zhuravlev | Russia | 14,450,000 | 41 |
| 43 | 5 | Ramin Boyazitov | Russia | 17,550,000 | 50 |
| 43 | 6 | Aleksey Shaburov | Russia | 6,100,000 | 17 |
| 43 | 7 | Pavel Gavrish | Russia | 7,850,000 | 22 |
| 43 | 8 | Rinat Enkov | Russia | 13,000,000 | 37 |
| 44 | 1 | Vladimir Troyanovskiy | Russia | 9,450,000 | 27 |
| 44 | 2 | Gytis Lazauninkas | Lithuania | 20,750,000 | 59 |
| 44 | 3 | Andrey Pateychuk | Russia | 18,250,000 | 52 |
| 44 | 4 | Pavel Zuev | Russia | 28,425,000 | 81 |
| 44 | 5 | Sergey Pichugin | Russia | 4,875,000 | 14 |
| 44 | 6 | Alexey Melnikov | Russia | 28,325,000 | 81 |
| 44 | 7 | Dmitriy Agafonov | Russia | 16,000,000 | 46 |
| 45 | 2 | Konstantin Uspenskii | Russia | 35,250,000 | 101 |
| 45 | 3 | Maxim Panyak | Russia | 37,875,000 | 108 |
| 45 | 4 | Oleg Semenov | Russia | 9,050,000 | 26 |
| 45 | 5 | Aibek Lekerov | Kazakhstan | 5,300,000 | 15 |
| 45 | 6 | Luke Thursfield | United Kingdom | 41,575,000 | 119 |
| 45 | 7 | Chin Wei Lim | Malaysia | 19,825,000 | 57 |
| 45 | 8 | Shyngis Satubayev | Kazakhstan | 20,100,000 | 57 |
End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)
Level 24
: 150,000/300,000, 300,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
45,250,000 | 7,250,000 |
|
41,575,000 | 14,700,000 |
|
37,875,000 | 16,075,000 |
|
35,250,000 | 250,000 |
|
30,800,000 | 23,700,000 |
|
30,500,000 | 800,000 |
|
30,000,000 | 4,000,000 |
|
29,400,000 | -5,600,000 |
|
28,425,000 | 3,825,000 |
|
28,325,000 | -1,175,000 |
|
24,125,000 | -1,375,000 |
|
21,975,000 | 7,975,000 |
|
20,750,000 | 10,250,000 |
|
20,100,000 | 1,600,000 |
|
20,000,000 | 12,000,000 |
|
19,825,000 | 2,325,000 |
|
19,800,000 | -12,600,000 |
|
18,250,000 | 1,250,000 |
|
18,075,000 | 3,375,000 |
|
17,550,000 | -1,450,000 |
|
16,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
|
15,950,000 | 11,900,000 |
|
15,800,000 | -200,000 |
|
14,750,000 | 7,695,000 |
|
14,750,000 | -3,525,000 |
Play Concluded
Level 24
: 150,000/300,000, 300,000 ante
Day 3 play has now come to an end.
A full list of end of day chip counts will be posted shortly along with a recap of the day's action.
Solovyev Departs; Uspenskii and Galitskiy Among Chip Leaders
Level 24
: 150,000/300,000, 300,000 ante
Andrey Chernokoz lost a massive pot to Konstantin Uspenskii and was left with a mere four or five big blinds, and those remaining few chips vanished soon after. The same table features another big stack in Mikhail Galitskiy, and both may very well end up as the chip leader after Day 3.
Uspenskii raised to 700,000 in middle position and Chernokoz defended the big blind, then check-called bets of 600,000 on the 
flop, 2.0 million on the 
turn and 5.5 million on the 
river. Uspenskii showed the 
for rivered trips and dragged in the massive pot.
Just prior to Chernokoz, it was Vladislav Solovyev that also ran out of chips. Aleksandr Levashov opened to 600,000 and called the button shove of Solovyev for 3.6 million.
Vladislav Solovyev: 
Aleksandr Levashov: 
The board came 
and that was it for Solovyev.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
35,000,000 | 13,000,000 |
|
|
35,000,000 | 19,500,000 |
|
|
16,000,000 | 6,300,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted |
Last Three Hands
Level 24
: 150,000/300,000, 300,000 ante
The final three hands of the day will now be completed.
partypoker Ambassador Filatov Hits a Straight
Level 24
: 150,000/300,000, 300,000 ante
partypoker ambassador Anatoly Filatov has just sent one of his opponents to the rail after he hit a straight with 
.
The board was down 
, and Filatov's opponent was happy to get his stock stack into the middle with but was unfortunate to see Filatov, who celebrated his 30th birthday earlier this week, reveal his hand made a straight.
Filatov moved up to 26,000,000 and is on course to make Day 4 in his home MILLIONS event.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
26,000,000 | 3,000,000 |
Reshetov Eliminated by Salikhov
Level 24
: 150,000/300,000, 300,000 ante
Maksim Reshetov pushed for his last 2.25 million from early position and Shukhrat Salikhov reshoved from the cutoff. Maxim Panyak, who had been doing shots with table neighbor Gleb Tremzin for some time, folded the 
in the big blind.
Maksim Reshetov: 
Shukhrat Salikhov: 
The board came 
and Reshetov was eliminated just before the end of the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
9,500,000 | 5,945,000 |
|
Busted |
Khordbin Busts With Aces
Level 24
: 150,000/300,000, 300,000 ante
Day 1C chip leader Hadi Khordbin got involved into a bigger pot with new arrival Gor Kazaryan and check-shoved all in foe what appeared to be around 9 million after a flop of 
when facing a bet of 2.0 million by Kazaryan from one seat over. The snap-call of Kazaryan followed and that was a bad sign for Khordbin.
Hadi Khordbin: 
Gor Kazaryan: 
Khordbin needed running hearts or one of the last two remaining aces in the deck to avoid the elimination, and his outs were reduced to just two after the turn. The 
fell on the river and that sealed his fate.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
38,000,000 | 15,000,000 |
|
Busted |
Hirs Departs With Trip Aces
Level 24
: 150,000/300,000, 300,000 ante
Aliaksandr Hirs got his last 4,000,000 into the middle on the flop reading 
and was called by Andrii Novak.
Both players held top pair, but it was Novak who had the lead. Hirs turned over , and Novak held 
.
The turn was the 
and the river the , to complete the win for Novak with a full house, as Hirs departed the tournament room just short of the chip bagging process.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
11,700,000 | 7,565,000 |
|
Busted |