Main Event
Jour 3 terminé
Main Event
Jour 3 terminé
Day 3 of the record-breaking 2017 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia $5,300 Main Event at the extravagant Sochi Casino and Resort in the Krasnaya Polyana region saw 227 hopefuls out of a 999-entry strong field return to the tables. Only the top 161 spots were paid and seven levels of 75 minutes each later, only 53 players bagged up chips for Day 4.
Leading the field into the penultimate tournament day is Philipp Zukernik with 40,700,000, closely followed by Karen Arutyunyan with 40,175,000 and Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy (37,750,000), while Zdenek Mach (29,650,000) is the only other non-Russian player among the top 10. Day 1b chip leader Dmitriy Kopyl (30,250,000) also bagged up a very healthy stack once again, and he is joined by such familiar names as Michael Sklenicka (24,900,000), Gleb Tremzin (24,225,000), Konstantin Puchkov (22,725,000), $10,300 High Roller champion David Laka (21,950,000), Vladimir Troyanovskiy (21,025,000) and Oleg Titov (19,100,000).
Other big names still in contention include Jeff Lisandro (13,725,000), Maxim Babko (9,375,000), Andrey Pateychuk (8,550,000), Paul Jackson (8,275,000) and 2017 World Series of Poker Main Event finalist Jack Sinclair (7,700,000), while the sole remaining partypoker Sponsored Pro Dzmitry Urbanovich (2,875,000) will start Day 4 with just seven big blinds.
Day 3 action
Among those to miss out on the money in the first three levels of Day 3 were Jeff Hakim, Govert Metaal, Andrey Gulyy, Konstantinos Nanos, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, partypoker Sponsored Pro Richard Dubini, Maxim Lykov, Kenny Hallaert, Dmitry Chop and Dmitry Gromov. After several double ups on the money bubble, it was Markus Ross that was the last to leave empty-handed. The German partypoker qualifier shoved out of the small blind with king-eight and Pavel Frolov snap-called with pocket kings to leave Ross drawing dead on the turn.
What followed was a rainfall of eliminations that started with Natalia Panchenko, and partypoker Sponsored Pro Anatoly Filatov joined the rail soon after. The entertaining and interactive Russian, as usual in action with his mini camera for the fans, ran with pocket eights into pocket kings and failed to improve. Other notables that fell before the dinner break included Manig Loeser and Vladimir Geshkenbein, while partypoker Sponsored Pro Johnny Lodden had to settle for 102nd place.
Just before that, Sylvia Hewitt was eliminated in a spectacular fashion when she got her stack in with ace-queen for top pair and top kicker on a three-way flop. Both Arsen Karmanukyan and Aleksandr Chernikov had ten-nine suited for the flopped nut straight with Karmanukyan also holding a spades flush draw. Instead, running diamonds gave Chernikov a winning flush and his enormous scream of celebration earned him a massive pot and penalty.
Steve O'Dwyer had to settle for 69th place and Vytautas Milbutas was eliminated on the feature table to bow out in 60th place. By then, Philipp Zukernik, Karen Arutyunyan and Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy were already at the top of the counts. Merzvhinskiy won a huge pot on the feature table with queens versus jacks and Arutyunyan held up with jacks versus ace-king to bust Ivan Arbatskiy. A big portion of Zukernik's stack was the result of cracking the aces of Armen Khachatryan when his jacks improved to a runner-runner straight.
Seven minutes of an additional level were played to reduce the field to the last 54 hopefuls, and another elimination on the feature table during the last hand left just 53 participants in contention. They will return with 68 minutes left at blinds of 200,000/400,000 and a button ante of 400,000, and the six remaining tables are moving to the theatre.
The PokerNews live reporting team will provide all the action until a winner is crowned on Thursday September 14th 2017.
Day 4 Seat Draw
Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
37 | 1 | Daria Feshchenko | Russian Federation | 19,300,000 | 48 |
37 | 2 | Karen Arutyunyan | Russian Federation | 40,175,000 | 100 |
37 | 3 | Dmitriy Shalnev | Russian Federation | 7,000,000 | 18 |
37 | 4 | Gleb Tremzin | Russian Federation | 24,225,000 | 61 |
37 | 5 | Viktoriya Shalneva | Russian Federation | 14,075,000 | 35 |
37 | 6 | Andrey Pateychuk | Russian Federation | 8,550,000 | 21 |
37 | 7 | Sergey Chupodal | Russian Federation | 19,275,000 | 48 |
37 | 8 | Gylbert Drolet | Canada | 14,025,000 | 35 |
37 | 9 | Oleksiy Kravchuk | Ukraine | 23,450,000 | 59 |
38 | 2 | Philipp Zukernik | Canada | 40,700,000 | 102 |
38 | 3 | Aleksei Istomin | Russian Federation | 7,400,000 | 19 |
38 | 4 | Aleksandr Gofman | Russian Federation | 15,875,000 | 40 |
38 | 5 | Michael Sklenicka | Czech Republic | 24,900,000 | 62 |
38 | 6 | Paul Jackson | United Kingdom | 8,275,000 | 21 |
38 | 7 | Dzmitry Urbanovich | Poland | 2,875,000 | 7 |
38 | 8 | Mikhail Surin | Russian Federation | 24,850,000 | 62 |
38 | 9 | Aleksandr Chernikov | Russian Federation | 26,450,000 | 66 |
39 | 1 | Timofey Vekshin | Russian Federation | 7,075,000 | 18 |
39 | 2 | Andrey Berinov | Russian Federation | 11,300,000 | 28 |
39 | 3 | Konstantin Puchkov | Russian Federation | 22,725,000 | 57 |
39 | 4 | David Laka | Spain | 21,950,000 | 55 |
39 | 5 | Alexander Matveev | Russian Federation | 4,075,000 | 10 |
39 | 6 | Ilya Kochnev | Russian Federation | 11,575,000 | 29 |
39 | 7 | Oleg Titov | Russian Federation | 19,100,000 | 48 |
39 | 8 | Yury Masliankou | Belarus | 3,550,000 | 9 |
39 | 9 | Maxim Babko | Canada | 9,375,000 | 23 |
40 | 1 | Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy | Russian Federation | 37,750,000 | 94 |
40 | 2 | Andrey Malyshev | Russian Federation | 13,725,000 | 34 |
40 | 3 | Jack Sinclair | United Kingdom | 7,700,000 | 19 |
40 | 4 | Fedor Algazin | Russian Federation | 26,700,000 | 67 |
40 | 5 | Yuriy Tuzov | Russian Federation | 2,350,000 | 6 |
40 | 6 | Gurgen Mkhitaryan | Armenia | 14,200,000 | 36 |
40 | 7 | Dmitriy Kopyl | Russian Federation | 30,250,000 | 76 |
40 | 8 | Anton Yakuba | Russian Federation | 15,800,000 | 40 |
40 | 9 | Vladimir Troyanovskiy | Russian Federation | 21,025,000 | 53 |
41 | 1 | Aleksei Kozlov | Russian Federation | 34,575,000 | 86 |
41 | 2 | Alexander Krasuntcev | Russian Federation | 17,925,000 | 45 |
41 | 3 | Denis Timofeyev | Russian Federation | 6,400,000 | 16 |
41 | 4 | Arkady Stekolshikov | Russian Federation | 11,250,000 | 28 |
41 | 5 | Andreas Klatt | Germany | 3,250,000 | 8 |
41 | 6 | Vadim Lipovka | Belarus | 8,800,000 | 22 |
41 | 7 | Leonid Logunov | Russian Federation | 5,050,000 | 13 |
41 | 8 | Maksim Tyurin | Russian Federation | 6,950,000 | 17 |
41 | 9 | Sergey Tsoy | Uzbekistan | 7,100,000 | 18 |
42 | 1 | Yunus Tuguz | Russian Federation | 24,125,000 | 60 |
42 | 2 | Anatoliy Zyrin | Russian Federation | 36,825,000 | 92 |
42 | 3 | Anatoliy Zuyev | Russian Federation | 1,975,000 | 5 |
42 | 4 | Mikhail Pokhlebayev | Russian Federation | 4,475,000 | 11 |
42 | 5 | Andrey Kozlenko | Russian Federation | 10,475,000 | 26 |
42 | 6 | Jeff Lisandro | Australia | 13,725,000 | 34 |
42 | 7 | Zdenek Mach | Czech Republic | 29,650,000 | 74 |
42 | 8 | Andrey Tkachenko | Russian Federation | 35,000,000 | 88 |
42 | 9 | Aleksandr Levashov | Russian Federation | 12,000,000 | 30 |
The full chip counts will be published when PokerNews receives them and a recap of today's action is to follow.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Philipp Zukernik
|
40,700,000 | 6,200,000 |
Karen Arutyunyan | 40,175,000 | 2,175,000 |
Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy | 37,750,000 | -250,000 |
Anatoliy Zyrin
|
36,825,000 | 20,825,000 |
Andrey Tkachenko
|
35,000,000 | -3,000,000 |
Aleksei Kozlov
|
34,575,000 | 29,575,000 |
Dmitriy Kopyl
|
30,250,000 | 11,250,000 |
Zdenek Mach
|
29,650,000 | 26,050,000 |
Fedor Algazin | 26,700,000 | 19,250,000 |
Aleksandr Chernikov | 26,450,000 | -3,550,000 |
Michael Sklenicka | 24,900,000 | 14,400,000 |
Mikhail Surin | 24,850,000 | 1,850,000 |
Gleb Tremzin | 24,225,000 | 19,725,000 |
Yunus Tuguz | 24,125,000 | -4,375,000 |
Oleksiy Kravchuk
|
23,450,000 | 2,450,000 |
Konstantin Puchkov
|
22,725,000 | -12,275,000 |
David Laka
|
21,950,000 | -550,000 |
Vladimir Troyanovskiy | 21,025,000 | 15,525,000 |
Daria Feshchenko | 19,300,000 | 9,300,000 |
Sergey Chupodal
|
19,275,000 | 7,275,000 |
Oleg Titov | 19,100,000 | 11,100,000 |
Alexander Krasuntcev
|
17,925,000 | 7,575,000 |
Aleksandr Gofman | 15,875,000 | -3,125,000 |
Anton Yakuba | 15,800,000 | 8,590,000 |
Gurgen Mkhitaryan
|
14,200,000 | 8,200,000 |
A few minutes into the new level at blinds 200,000/400,000, Pavel Kovalenko moves all in for 1,875,000 from under the gun. The player in middle position calls before it folds to Oleksiy Kravchuk in the small blind who three-bets all in for just under 20 million.
"Why do you do that?" asked the middle position player, "You only do that with Aces or Kings." He folded.
Kravchuk turned over against the of Kovalenko.
The board ran out and Kovalenko was eliminated. At the same time over on the feature table, Aliaksandr Maistrenka failed also to hold up and became the last casualty of the day.
Players are now bagging up for the evening. Stay tuned for a full recap of the day's action.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Oleksiy Kravchuk
|
21,000,000 | 4,500,000 |
Pavel Kovalenko | Eliminé | |
Aliaksandr Maistrenka
|
Eliminé |
The next two players to join the rail were Andrey Chusovitin and Mikhail Medvedev. The latter got his short stack in with and Mikhail Surin looked him up with the . After a board of , the kicker played a crucial role to eliminate Medvedev and the field was reduced to the last 55 hopefuls.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Mikhail Surin | 23,000,000 | 12,600,000 |
Andrey Chusovitin
|
Eliminé | |
Mikhail Medvedev
|
Eliminé |
Peter Smyth busted on the feature table and Gary Banks followed in the main tournament room to make it two British casualties in quick succession.
Banks defended his big blind with and check-called a bet on the flop. The turn gave him the nut flush draw on top of his two pair and Banks check-shoved to see Tkachenko call with and spike a six on the river.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Andrey Tkachenko
|
38,000,000 | 7,500,000 |
Peter Smyth | Eliminé | |
Gary Banks | Eliminé |
On the feature table it folded to Michael Sklenicka who moved all in for 11 million. He covered Vytautas Milbutas in the big blind. Milbutas had 2,850,000 and called.
Sklenicka:
Milbutas:
The board came . Milbutas asked for two kings. There was one on the turn, but the river was a blank. Milbutas finished in 62nd place, another good run after going deep in the EAPT Grand Final a few days ago.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Vytautas Milbutas | Eliminé |
A player opened to 600,000 from middle position. Andrey Berinov called in the hijack, as did the player in the small blind.
Pavel Frolov was in the big blind and he three-bet all in for 3,350,000. The initial raiser folded and Berinov called. The big blind took his time thinking about his and Berinov's stack before folding.
Berinov:
Frolov:
The board ran out and Frolov was eliminated.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Andrey Berinov | 10,200,000 | 2,700,000 |
Pavel Frolov | Eliminé |
The next trip that joined the rail included Oleg Zhdan. He was down to 3.5 million and moved all in from the hijack, while Dmitriy Kopyl called in the cutoff.
Zhdan showed and was in need of help, as Kopyl had him dominated with . The flop was bad for Zhdan, as he now even needed running cards in order to stay in contention. However, the turn and river brought no miracle and Kopyl raked in the pot.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Dmitriy Kopyl
|
19,000,000 | 12,700,000 |
Badra Bazba
|
Eliminé | |
Aleksandr Shuvalov | Eliminé | |
Oleg Zhdan
|
Eliminé |
Within quick succession, Yevgeniy Alikin, Nikolay Prokhorskiy and Denis Ten have been sent to the rail. Ten bet a flop of against table neighbor Andrey Tkachenko and shoved the turn only to see Tkachenko snap-call with for a set. Ten only had pocket fives and the river was a blank.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Andrey Tkachenko
|
30,500,000 | 26,955,000 |
Denis Ten
|
Eliminé | |
Yevgeniy Alikin
|
Eliminé | |
Nikolay Prokhorskiy | Eliminé |