Among the next players to bust was also Mikhail Galitskiy, who shoved for around 800,000 with the . Philipp Zukernik called with the and the board came to eliminate Galitskiy.
On the direct money bubble it folded to Markus Ross in the small blind who moved all in for his last 1,625,000. Pavel Frolov was in the big blind with a stack of around five million and called.
Ross:
Frolov:
The board ran out with Ross dead by the turn, and he would be our Main Event bubble boy. The remaining 161 players are all guaranteed 5,800 Casino Sochi Units (CSU) or approximately $5,000.
There were two all in and call on the money bubble and one of them involved Anatoliy Filonenko and Andrey Pateychuk. The former had opened to 325,000, faced a three-bet to one million and called the four-bet shove of Filonenko for 4,730,000.
Andrey Pateychuk:
Anatoliy Filonenko:
The flop was a massive sweat, but both the turn and river bricked to let Pateychuk double. Once the bubble bursts, this table will be moving to the feature with the live stream of the action on a half an hour security delay. Daniel Clark, Steve O'Dwyer and Dzmitry Urbanovich will also be among those in the spotlight shortly.
Sergey Kislinskiy raised to 320,000 from early position and Ivan Arbatsky three-bet to 950,000 in the hijack. Kislinskiy moved all in for what appeared to be 2,950,000 and Arbatsky called. Once all other tables were finished with the action, the cards were turned over.
Sergey Kislinskiy:
Ivan Arbatsky:
The board of brought the first casualty during hand-for-hand mode and a table will now break before the stone cold money bubble continues.
There were three all in and a call on different tables and no player would run out of chips. Igor Kasyanov doubled for 635,000 with ace-king against the ace-seven of Alexander Krasuntcev.
Igor Kasyanov shoved for 815,000 from the hijack over an open raise to 260,000 by Vladimir Geshkenbein and Jeff Lisandro called in the big blind. Geshkenbein folded and said "no ten please" upon spotting the of Kasyanov and the of Lisandro. The flop was and Geshkenbein could all but laugh, while the turn and river were a mere formality.