Day 1b of the 2017 PokerStars Championship Sochi Main Event
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Welcome to Day 1b of the inaugural PokerStars Championship Sochi Main Event at the spectacular Sochi Casino and Resort.
The Main Event is part of a 12-day festival of poker with a buy-in of RUB 318,000 and a guarantee of RUB 150,000,000.
Cards are in the air at Noon local time as players start with 30,000 chips and play eight 75-minute levels with a dinner break after level six and play due to end around midnight.
Day 1a saw Russia’s Andrei Shkerin top a field of 132 to bag up 144,400 chips for Day 2 while Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker is very much in contention with a stack of 115,300 while 71 players survived.
The majority of the field is once more likely to be packed with some of the best players in Russia with some of the notables expected to put in an appearance include Indian Team PokerStars Pro Aditya Agarwal, Jason Wheeler, Vladimir Troyanovskiy, Maxim Panyak and Alexander Lakhov.
Day 1 level structure
| Level | Duration | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 75 min | 50 | 100 | |
| 2 | 75 min | 75 | 150 | |
| 3 | 75 min | 100 | 200 | 25 |
| 4 | 75 min | 150 | 300 | 50 |
| 5 | 75 min | 200 | 400 | 50 |
| 6 | 75 min | 250 | 500 | 75 |
| 7 | 75 min | 300 | 600 | 100 |
| 8 | 75 min | 400 | 800 | 100 |
The PokerNews live reporting team will bring you all the action from the felt so be sure to follow along as the road to a PokerStars Sochi Champion continues.