Andrey Pateychuk raised to 275,000 on the button and was called by Nikita Kalinin in the big blind. On a flop of , Kalinin check-raised from 275,000 to 950,000 and Pateychuk called to see the on the turn. A bet of Kalinin worth 1.1 million was called and Kalinin then shoved the river.
Pateychuk called and Kalinin turned over his for trips nines and Pateychuk tabled the for the nut flush as winning hand.
Philipp Gruissem was spotted on his way out of the tournament area and he was kind enough to explain that he lost his last 15 big blinds with pocket sevens against an opponent with pocket eights.
Fellow partypoker ambassador Anatoly Filatov is the last one to fly the flag for the team and does so as one of the current chip leaders.
Pavel Kireev has lost two huge pots back-to-back to exit the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event after having 18 million chips earlier on in the day.
When we arrived at Table 40, Kireev, who had 8,000,000 behind him, was being made to surrender half of his stack to Mikhail Surin who held on the and his top pair was good for the win.
In the very next hand, Kireev was all in and at risk with against Vadim Lipovka who held pocket jacks. The board came down , and there was no luck for Kireev who departs from the Main Event earning 750,000 RUB.
Vyacheslav Nikulin raised from the button to 450,000, and Iliya Iliyaguev called from the small blind. Oleg Netaliev was in the big blind and raised to 1,950,000. Both opponents called to see the flop, and Netaliev continued for 2,100,000 after Iliyaguev had checked. Nikulin folded, and Iliyaguev raised to 6,500,000, with the amount the same amount behind him.
Netaliev used two time bank cards before he decided to move all in and Iliyaguev thought for a few seconds before he folded and announced he held pocket queens.
Netaliev picked up a huge pot and moved up to 32,400,000 and took the overall chip lead.
Jessica Pilkington was one of ten remaining players in a last longer competition of players that used MPPL Dollars to buy into the event and three-bet all in for 15 big blinds with . Initial raiser Shyngis Satubayev called with and held up. The last man standing of said promotion will receive a payday of $100,000 in this special promotion.
Of the nine remaining players, seven agreed to publish their names and can be found below.
Nikolay Fal
Andrey Kotelnikov
Vlada Stojanovic
Joseph Parsons
Andrey Novak
Vyacheslav Nikulin
Colin McTaggart
Mikhail Surin opened the action with a raise to 575,000 from early position and Andrey Chernokoz called in late position. Vadim Lipovka in the big blind pushed for 6.925 million and Surin used one time bank before announcing all in. Chernokoz quickly folded and they were off to the races.
Vadim Lipovka:
Mikhail Surin:
Lipovka stood up from his chair and the old mystic trick worked, as he got there on the turn of a board to remain in contention for a repeat final table appearance in Sochi.
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.
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.
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.