2017 PokerStars Festival Sochi

Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
2017 PokerStars Festival Sochi
Final Results
Winner
Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy
Winning Hand
jj
Prize
7,700,000 RUB
Event Info
Buy-in
66,000 RUB
Prize Pool
30,000,000 RUB
Total Entries
699
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
125,000 / 250,000
Ante
25,000
Players Left 1 / 699
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Vadim Lipovka Doubles Up

Level 24 : 15,000/30,000, 5,000 ante

Saryal Egorov opened the action and then called a shove from short stacked Vadim Lipovka.

Lipovka: {a-Spades}{j-Diamonds}
Egorov: {k-Clubs}{j-Hearts}

The board ran out {7-Clubs}{4-Diamonds}{j-Clubs}{4-Spades}{2-Diamonds}

Egorov looked exasperated but Lipovka shrugged it off.

Tags: Saryal EgorovVadim Lipovka

Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy Still Leads

Level 24 : 15,000/30,000, 5,000 ante

Andrey Kaigorostev Eliminated

Level 24 : 15,000/30,000, 5,000 ante

Andrey Kaigorostev moved all in from under the gun for around 260,000 and action folded to Mikhail Zamyatin in the big blind who called.

Kaigorostev: {k-Diamonds}{q-Hearts}
Zamyatin: {a-Diamonds}{q-Hearts}

The board ran out {9-Clubs}{8-Hearts}{8-Clubs}{7-Clubs}{6-Hearts}.

Kaigorostev was eliminated in 17th place.

Mikalai Lukoshka finished 18th and Tuzariya Dzukayaev 19th.

Tags: Mikhail ZamyatinAndrey Kaigorostev

Tuzariya Dzukayaev Doubles Through Vladimir Gatsutsa

Level 24 : 15,000/30,000, 5,000 ante

Vladimir Gatsutsa opened and then called a jam from Tuzariya Dzukayaev who was the player at risk.

Gatsutsa: {j-Hearts}{j-Clubs}
Dzukayaev: {a-Hearts}{k-Spades}

The board ran out {3-Hearts}{8-Hearts}{8-Diamonds}{k-Clubs}{6-Spades}

The saving card on the turn giving Dzukayaev his double up.

Tags: Vladimir GatsutsaTuzariya Dzukayaev

Level: 24

Blinds: 15,000/30,000

Ante: 5,000

Mikhail Zamyatin Doubles Up

Level 23 : 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante

Mikhail Zamyatin moved all in for 325,000 and picked up a call from Valentin Zolotilov on the button.

Zamyatin: {a-Hearts}{2-Hearts}
Zolotilov: {k-Hearts}{q-Hearts}

The board ran out {10-Spades}{6-Spades}{10-Diamonds}{5-Hearts}{7-Clubs}

Zamyatin was a relieved man to get a double up and Zolotilov was now left short.

Alexander Shlyakhov Doubles Up Early and Three Eliminations

Level 23 : 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante
Alexander Shlyakhov
Alexander Shlyakhov

Maksim Bura opened the action for 50,000 and Alexander Shlyakhov moved all in for 379,000.

Bura gave it a great deal of thought before calling and finding out he was ahead.

Shlyakhov: {k-Hearts}{j-Diamonds}
Bura : {a-Spades}{10-Clubs}

The board ran out {k-Spades}{5-Clubs}{j-Spades}{9-Hearts}{7-Diamonds}.

The two pair on the flop good for a double up for Shlyakhov, who thumped the edge of the table in relief, while an unhappy Bura handed over the greater part of his stack and was eliminated shortly after.
Sergey Terentiev and Evgeny Panchenko have also been eliminated on other tables.

Tags: Alexander Shlyakhov

Level: 23

Blinds: 12,000/24,000

Ante: 4,000

A New PokerStars Festival Sochi Champion Will Be Crowned Today

Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy
Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy

Welcome to the Final Day of the 2017 PokerStars Festival Sochi Main Event.

Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy starts the day with a commanding chip lead but nothing is certain and the winner will be crowned most likely in the early hours of Monday morning.

A total of 699 entries for the Main Event generated a guarantee beating prize pool of RUB 40,681,800. Players from 17 different countries converged on the Sochi Casino and Resort to play in the tournament with Russians naturally the largest contingent with 507 players while the U.K. had two with one apiece from Germany and Argentina.

Play gets underway at 12 p.m. once more where the blinds at level 27 with 12,000/24,000 and an ante of 4,000.

The PokerNews Live Reporting team will bring you all the action and photographs from the event as they play down to a winner and a new PokerStars Festival Main Event Champion.

Tags: Aleksander Merzhvinskiy