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2017 PokerStars Festival Sochi
132,000₽ High Roller
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Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
After an action-packed Day 1 of the PokerStars Festival Sochi High Roller, it is Andrey Andreev with 347,200 who leads the final 26 going into Day 2.
Just behind him is Vanush Mnatcakanian with 331,700. The pair are the only two players over 300,000, and are in fact the only two over 200,000, with their nearest competitor Dmitrii Deviatov with 179,700.
Today's event put the memory of the 26-player High Roller from the PokerStars Championship Sochi firmly to bed as a 96-player field descended on the Sochi Casino & Resort creating a prizepool of over 11 million rubles.
With players able to take advantage of a single re-entry should they need, many players did so including Russian regular Konstantin Puchkov, along with Nikita Kalinin, Valeriy Legchilo, Aleksandr Tudakov and Andrey Chernokoz.
Liv Boeree and Igor Kurganov both registered after the dinner break, and enjoyed differing starts to the High Roller.
While Boeree toiled at starting stack for most of the day, Kurganov soared to over three times starting stack before clashing with fellow big stack Andrey Andreev.
Andreev held top pair, as well as straight and flush draws against Kurganov's over pair. The river completed Andreev's flush and Kurganov was sent to the rail.
Kurganov re-entered and bagged up 175,000 at the end of the day good enough for fourth in chips, while Boeree was unlucky to bust when her pocket nines came up against the pocket tens of Yakov Oranskiy.
Towards the end of the night it appeared like Vanush Mnatcakanian could be the only player to challenge Andreev for the the chip lead but Andreev held firm to take 145 big blinds into Day 2.
Stay tuned to PokerNews.cim for what promises to be an exciting conclusion to the PokerStars Festival Sochi.
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Sergey Petrushevsky open-shoved for 11,200 from the hijack. Dmitrii Deviatov called in the cutoff before Alexandr Gorbachev three-bet all in from the big blind. Deviatov folded.
Sergey Petrushevsky: 
Alexandr Gorbachev: 
The board ran out 
and Petrushevsky doubled up.
The very next hand Petrushevsky open-shoved again and it looked to be getting through before Alexsey Zaragatskiy called in the big blind.
Sergey Petrushevsky: 
Alexsey Zaragatskiy: 
The board ran out 
and this time Petrushevsky was eliminated.
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Igor Kurganov ran his first bullet up to 90,000 before busting against current chip leader Andrey Andreev. HOwever he has built up his second bullet to even more than his first.
In this hand with Vladimir Pilyavskiy all in before the 
turn, Kurganov forced a third player out of the hand and tabled 
. Pilyavskiy was playing catch up with 
. The river was the 
and Pilyavskiy was eliminated.
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
On a 
board with 50,000 chips in the middle Pavel Veksler checked to Karen Harutyunyan who moved all in for his last 36,000. Veksler tank-called.
Karen Harutyunyan:
Pavel Veksler: 
The river was the and Harutyunyan doubled up.
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Level 11
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
On a 
flop Igor Kurganov checked to Vladimir Pilyavskiy who bet 6,000. Kurganov check-raised all in for 31,000 and Pilyavskiy called.
Igor Kurganov:
Vladimir Pilyavskiy: 
The turn was the and the river the 
and Kurganov doubled up just as the table was breaking.
Level 11
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Level 11
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
