Main Event Day 3 | 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia

08-11-2018 13:08 UTC+3

Kudinov's Aces Best Utemov's Kings

Christian Zetzsche

Level 17 : 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante

Sergey Lomakin had been eliminated earlier today and his vacated seat was filled with Viktor Kudinov, who got involved into a big pot with Ivan Utemov. The flop showed and Utemov bet 1.2 million with another 1.0 million behind. Kudinov moved all in and Utemov called it off.

Ivan Utemov:
Viktor Kudinov:

The turn and river run out failed to improve Utemov and he was sent to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Viktor Kudinov	10,000,000	2,700,000
Ivan Utemov	Busted
Sergey Lomakin	Busted

Tags: Ivan Utemov Sergey Lomakin Viktor Kudinov

08-11-2018 13:00 UTC+3

Skripkin Cracks Hasnir's Kings

AaronMcBride

Level 17 : 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante

Maksim Skripkin raised to 170,000 from early position and the player in the next seat called. With the action now on Richard Hasnir he three-bet to 650,000. The rest of the table folded and Skripkin moved all in for 1.6m, with one player folding before Hasnir snap-called.

Maksim Skripkin:
Richard Hasnir:

Board:

Skripkin was in big trouble preflop and on the verge of elimination until the flop brought one of his two immediate outs. The turn spade card gave Hasnir additional outs with a redraw to the flush, but the river bricked for him, and Skripkin secured an unlikely double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Maksim Skripkin	3,500,000	1,370,000
Richard Hasnir	2,800,000	-2,550,000

Tags: Maksim Skripkin Richard Hasnir

08-11-2018 12:52 UTC+3

Kozhevnikov Cracks Queens

Christian Zetzsche

Level 17 : 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante

Igor Kozhevnikov moved all in for 1,140,000 first to act and Alexey Melnikov tossed in a single chip for the call, all other players folded.

Igor Kozhevnikov:
Alexey Melnikov:

The flop gave Kozhevnikov a gutshot and sure enough, he improved to a straight with the on the turn. The river failed to pair the board for Melnikov and Kozhevnikov doubled.

Diego Zeiter was less fortunate and busted from a different table just moments later.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alexey Melnikov	9,500,000	-2,000,000
Igor Kozhevnikov	2,400,000	600,000
Diego Zeiter	Busted

Tags: Alexey Melnikov Igor Kozhevnikov Diego Zeiter

08-11-2018 12:46 UTC+3

Aloev; Veksler and Horak Eliminated

Christian Zetzsche

Level 17 : 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante

Asker Aloev, Pavel Veksler and Jiri Horak have all been eliminated.

Veksler told Russian poker media that he defended ace-four out of the big blind and check-called down all the way on a board of and was shown pocket treys for a turned set.

Jiri Horak doubled in the first hand, but was also spotted out of the tournament area. "I flopped a flush with eight-four, but the lady had the higher flush with jack-ten." Said lady is Ekaterina Fedyaeva, who built her stack to more than 12 million.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ekaterina Fedyaeva	12,500,000	2,940,000
Asker Aloev	Busted
Pavel Veksler	Busted
Jiri Horak	Busted

Tags: Asker Aloev Jiri Horak Pavel Veksler Ekaterina Fedyaeva

08-11-2018 12:45 UTC+3

Adams Gets Shove Through

AaronMcBride

Level 17 : 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante

With the majority of the field being European players, Timothy Adams is one of the few exceptions. The Canadian player came back for Day three with 25 big blinds and had already found a spot to move all in.

The action folded around to Armen Khachatryan on the button, and he raised to 200,000. Adams was in the small blind and moved all in for 2,000,000. After the player in the big blind folded, Khachatryan contemplated his decision for 30 seconds before he let Adams pick up the pot preflop.

Player	Chips	Progress
Timothy Adams	2,300,000	285,000

Tags: Timothy Adams

08-11-2018 12:37 UTC+3

Novikova Eliminated

Christian Zetzsche

Level 17 : 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante

Down to just 165,000, Liliya Novikova moved all in from under the gun and was called by table neighbor Alexandr Labunskiy and Maxim Panyak. Both remaining active players checked down the board and Panyak showed . Novikova was beat with her and it was Labunskiy that scooped the pot with for a pair of kings.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alexandr Labunskiy	7,000,000	765,000
Liliya Novikova	Busted

Tags: Alexandr Labunskiy Liliya Novikova Maxim Panyak

08-11-2018 12:35 UTC+3

Netaliev Takes the Lead

Christian Zetzsche

Level 17 : 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante

Among those to bust early on Day 3 were Brandon Sheils, Arseniy Karmatskiy and Petr Bartagov. The latter held pocket kings and big stack Oleg Netaliev flopped a set of nines to deal the final blow.

Player	Chips	Progress
Oleg Netaliev	20,000,000	5,370,000
Grigoriy Rodin	Busted
Arseniy Karmatskiy	Busted
Vitaliy Gusak	Busted
Andrey Bondar	Busted
Brandon Sheils	Busted
Yunus Tuguz	Busted
Petr Bartagov	Busted

Tags: Arseniy Karmatskiy Brandon Sheils Oleg Netaliev Petr Bartagov

08-11-2018 12:32 UTC+3

Skalak Takes From Orman

AaronMcBride

Level 17 : 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante

The board was down , and Leonid Orman was facing a 750,000 bet in the big blind from Vojtech Skalak who was on the button. Orman made the call, and the players saw a river card.

Orman tapped the table three times to signal a check and Skalak decided to bet 1.5m into the 2.5m pot. Orman went into the tank as Skalak remained still awaiting his opponent's decision. After a minute had passed, Orman slowly moved his cards towards the dealer and sacrificed the pot to Skalak.

Skalak, who is a former partypoker LIVE Golden Chip promotion winner, moves up to 6,000,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Leonid Orman	9,500,000	-550,000
Vojtech Skalak	6,000,000	1,960,000

Tags: Leonid Orman Vojtech Skalak partypoker LIVE

08-11-2018 12:27 UTC+3

Yanpolskiy Flips Well Against Denisov

Christian Zetzsche

Level 17 : 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante

Boris Yanpolskiy was all in and at risk for 3.22 million before the flop with the and start-of-the-day chip leader Aleksandr Denisov looked him up with the . The flop gave Yanpolskiy a gutshot and he improved to a pair with the turn.

The river changed nothing anymore and Yanpolskiy put a small dent into the big wall of chips in front of Denisov.

Player	Chips	Progress
Aleksandr Denisov	16,000,000	-3,035,000
Boris Yanpolskiy	6,500,000	6,500,000

Tags: Aleksandr Denisov Boris Yanpolskiy

08-11-2018 12:23 UTC+3

Orman Catches Nikulin Bluffing

AaronMcBride

Level 17 : 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante

Leonid Orman opened the action with a raise to 175,000 from middle position, and Konstantin Nikulin called in the big blind. The flop came down , and Nikulin check-called a 140,000 bet. Both players checked on the turn, and when the river card was revealed to be the , Nikulin led for 175,000.

Orman thought for a minute before he made the call. Nikulin flipped over for a missed gutshot straight draw, and Orman picked up the pot after he made a good call with fourth pair pocket nines.

Player	Chips	Progress
Leonid Orman	10,050,000	505,000
Konstantin Nikulin	3,000,000	-560,000

Tags: Konstantin Nikulin Leonid Orman