Sergey Verkhoturov Leads Record-Breaking partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event

Will Shillibier

Level 14 : 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante

The partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia broke the record for the largest poker event in Russian history, on the day that 231 players advanced to Day 3 at the Sochi Casino & Resort.

Of those 231, 161 players will cash, with a min-cash worth 5,800 Casino Sochi Units (CSU) (approx. $5,000). The winner will walk away with a cool 1,160,000 CSU (approx. $1,000,000).

Leading the way into Day 3 is Sergey Verkhoturov with 11,050,000. In the last level of the night he picked up Kings and Aces in quick succession, taking them to showdown on the river to win multi-million chip pots which saw him soar to the top of the chip counts.

Joining him is the player sat immediately to his left Alexander Krasuntcev (10,350,000) as well as other big stacks Yury Masliakou (10,905,000) and Gary Banks (10,455,000).

Both Day 1A chip leader Matt Eardley (4,900,000) and Day 1B chip leader Dmitriy Kopyl (5,455,000) will be advancing to Day 3.

partypoker still has a strong presence with several satellite and online qualifiers making it through to Day 3, along with Sponsored Pros Anatoly Filatov, Johnny Lodden and Richard Dubini (4,715,000).

Among the players who failed to make it through to Day 3 are Leon Tsoukernik, Mikhail Shalamov, partypoker Chairman Mike Sexton, Roman Cieslik, Pavel Shirshikov, Manig Loeser, and Aleksandar Tomovic.

However, moving on to Day 3 are the likes of Bertrand Grospellier (4,130,000), Jeff Lisandro (5,335,000), Konstantin Puchkov (8,635,000), Philipp Zukernik (3,330,000), Shyngis Satubayev (2,325,000), Mark Mccluskey (4,680,000), Peter Smyth (4,443,000), Andrey Pateychuk (7,465,000), Manig Loeser (4,350,000) and Vytautas Milbutas (5,400,000).

Day 3 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Said Butba	Russia	5,670,000	71
1	2	Mehmet Kolgu	Turkey	1,490,000	19
1	3	Viktoriya Shalneva	Russia	6,150,000	77
1	4	Sergey Ananyev	Russia	2,260,000	28
1	5	Vytautas Milbutas	Lithuania	5,405,000	68
1	6	Aleksey Kovalev	Russia	5,250,000	66
1	7	Aleksandra Babich	Russia	635,000	8
1	8	Andrey Arefiev	Russia	765,000	10
1	9	Gurkan Gurgoren	Turkey	3,050,000	38

2	1	Oleksiy Kravchuk	Ukraine	4,070,000	51
2	2	Leonid Logunov	Russia	6,235,000	78
2	3	Vadim Kim	Russia	5,470,000	68
2	4	Andrey Malyshev	Russia	3,725,000	47
2	5	Konstantin Chursin	Russia	1,935,000	24
2	6	Dmitriy Golyshev	Russia	4,395,000	55
2	7	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Russia	5,225,000	65
2	8	Alexander Denisov	Russia	3,670,000	46
2	9	Aleksandr Biryukov	Russia	1,250,000	16

3	1	Yuriy Tuzov	Russia	139,000	2
3	2	Dmitry Gromov	Russia	2,675,000	33
3	3	Mark Mccluskey	United Kingdom	4,680,000	59
3	4	Maksim Skripkin	Russia	2,015,000	25
3	5	Thomas Horton	Ireland	725,000	9
3	6	Petr Son	Uzbekistan	4,555,000	57
3	7	Oleg Titov	Russia	5,875,000	73
3	8	Khasan Borokov	Russia	6,200,000	78
3	9	Ilyaz Dosikov	Russia	2,000,000	25

4	1	Lev Moiseyenko	Russia	2,410,000	30
4	2	Govert Metaal	Netherlands	5,640,000	71
4	3	Alexander Krasuntcev	Russia	10,350,000	129
4	4	Timofey Vekshin	Russia	4,560,000	57
4	5	Ilya Kochnev	Russia	4,650,000	58
4	6	Nikita Bochkin	Russia	915,000	11
4	7	Igor Mochalov	Ukraine	1,975,000	25
4	8	Vasiliy Kurdin	Russia	1,050,000	13
4	9	Andrey Kaygorodtsev	Russia	1,044,000	13

5	1	David Coates	United Kingdom	6,545,000	82
5	2	Richard Dubini	Argentina	4,715,000	59
5	3	Armen Khachatryan	Russia	8,075,000	101
5	4	Andrey Chernokoz	Russia	2,695,000	34
5	5	Jack Sinclair	United Kingdom	1,780,000	22
5	6	Andreas Klatt	Germany	5,400,000	68
5	7	Sergey Terentyev	Russia	1,465,000	18
5	8	Vyacheslav Ivanov	Russia	8,765,000	110
5	9	Konstantinos Nanos	Greece	2,550,000	32

6	1	Andrey Pateychuk	Russia	7,465,000	93
6	2	Vladimir Troyanovskiy	Russia	6,480,000	81
6	3	Artur Simonyan	Russia	760,000	10
6	4	Igor Abelmasov	Russia	6,860,000	86
6	5	Andriena Nutt	United Kingdom	3,802,000	48
6	6	Konstantin Generalov	Russia	2,600,000	33
6	7	Anatoliy Filonenko	Ukraine	3,660,000	46
6	8	Dmitry Chop	Ukraine	5,000,000	63
6	9	Dzmitry Urbanovich	Poland	2,410,000	30

7	1	Oleksandr Rozumovskiy	Ukraine	1,380,000	17
7	2	Arsen Karmanukyan	Russia	2,115,000	26
7	3	Lyudmila Rudova	Russia	2,035,000	25
7	4	Kelly Ince	United Kingdom	1,400,000	18
7	5	Anvar Muratov	Russia	1,020,000	13
7	6	Petr Gabyshev	Russia	1,500,000	19
7	7	Rafal Gontarczyk	Poland	3,140,000	39
7	8	Markus Ross	Germany	1,850,000	23
7	9	Tarkan Karadas	Austria	2,010,000	25

8	1	Sergey Belous	Belarus	4,400,000	55
8	2	Nikolay Prokhorskiy	Russia	6,115,000	76
8	3	Roman Korniyenko	Russia	2,650,000	33
8	4	Yakov Mushailov	Russia	1,850,000	23
8	5	Vahe Martirosyan	Armenia	3,430,000	43
8	6	Shyngis Satubayev	Kazakhstan	2,325,000	29
8	7	Matt Eardley	United Kingdom	4,900,000	61
8	8	Vitaliy Avanesyan	Russia	1,100,000	14
8	9	Aleksey Militsa	Russia	1,810,000	23

9	1	David Laka	Spain	2,960,000	37
9	2	Denis Timofeyev	Russia	6,445,000	81
9	3	Dmitriy Makarov	Russia	4,125,000	52
9	4	Sergey Verkhoturov	Belarus	11,050,000	138
9	5	Thomer Pidun	Germany	4,425,000	55
9	6	Dmitriy Grishin	Russia	1,590,000	20
9	7	Aliaksandr Maistrenka	Belarus	5,935,000	74
9	8	Johnny Lodden	Norway	6,900,000	86
9	9	Karen Karamanov	Russia	4,485,000	56

10	1	Georgiy Bandura	Russia	2,125,000	27
10	2	Jussi Siikaaho	Finland	3,370,000	42
10	3	Oleg Manylov	Russia	2,915,000	36
10	4	Aleksandr Gofman	Russia	5,960,000	75
10	5	Jeff Lisandro	Australia	5,335,000	67
10	6	Vladimir Geshkenbein	Russia	6,500,000	81
10	7	Michael Sklenicka	Czech Republic	8,315,000	104
10	8	Petre Ionescu	Romania	3,550,000	44
10	9	Alexey Tsessarskiy	Russia	6,785,000	85

11	1	David Arutyunyan	Russia	4,080,000	51
11	2	Anatoliy Shershnev	Russia	1,620,000	20
11	3	Andrey Andreev	Russia	8,525,000	107
11	4	Aleksei Istomin	Russia	8,390,000	105
11	5	Anton Yakuba	Russia	7,210,000	90
11	6	Bertrand Grospellier	France	4,130,000	52
11	7	Pavel Kovalenko	Russia	4,440,000	56
11	8	Ilya Gorodetskiy	Russia	1,635,000	20
11	9	Andrey Tkachenko	Russia	3,545,000	44

12	1	Andrey Berinov	Russia	5,350,000	67
12	2	Artem Beryland	Ukraine	3,745,000	47
12	3	Vitaly Volov	Russia	2,255,000	28
12	4	Daria Feshchenko	Russia	2,210,000	28
12	5	Yunus Tuguz	Russia	2,700,000	34
12	6	Yury Masliankou	Belarus	10,905,000	136
12	7	Aleksey Gorodnichev	Russia	1,050,000	13
12	8	Jeff Hakim	Lebanon	1,850,000	23
12	9	Gary Banks	United Kingdom	10,450,000	131

13	1	Ivan Borisov	Russia	1,315,000	16
13	2	Andrey Chusovitin	Russia	4,685,000	59
13	3	Mikhail Medvedev	Russia	2,125,000	27
13	4	Eduards Kudrjavcevs	Latvia	5,625,000	70
13	5	Zamir Adzhiyev	Russia	1,000,000	13
13	6	Vadim Lipovka	Belarus	3,245,000	41
13	7	Aleksey Zakharov	Russia	2,000,000	25
13	8	Igor Sharaskin	Russia	4,285,000	54
13	9	Peter Smyth	United Kingdom	4,430,000	55

14	1	Sergey Leonichev	Ukraine	1,830,000	23
14	2	Ilya Borisov	Russia	1,370,000	17
14	3	Andrey Razov	Russia	4,100,000	51
14	4	Yevgeniy Kochetkov	Russia	2,905,000	36
14	5	Ivan Mischenko	Russia	1,560,000	20
14	6	Mikhail Surin	Russia	4,900,000	61
14	7	Ivan Pashutskiy	Russia	2,580,000	32
14	8	Maksim Tyurin	Russia	3,100,000	39
14	9	Viktor Podofedenko	Russia	2,895,000	36

15	1	Vyacheslav Stoyanov	Russia	3,920,000	49
15	2	Sergey Chantcev	Russia	6,450,000	81
15	3	Mikhail Galitskiy	Russia	2,220,000	28
15	4	Arkady Stekolshikov	Russia	6,695,000	84
15	5	Dmitriy Shalnev	Russia	1,400,000	18
15	6	Alexandr Razbenkov	Russia	2,775,000	35
15	7	Philipp Zukernik	Canada	3,330,000	42
15	8	Paul Jackson	United Kingdom	3,995,000	50
15	9	Yevgeniy Alikin	Russia	895,000	11

16	1	Andrey Gulyy	Russia	1,550,000	19
16	2	Viktor Kudinov	Russia	355,000	4
16	3	Gurgen Mkhitaryan	Armenia	6,475,000	81
16	4	Oleg Egorov	Russia	5,430,000	68
16	5	Sergei Petrushevskii	Russia	6,605,000	83
16	6	Ivan Shulga	Russia	4,220,000	53
16	7	Gylbert Drolet	Canada	3,500,000	44
16	8	Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy	Russia	8,955,000	112
16	9	Sergey Nikiforov	Russia	2,330,000	29

17	1	Vyacheslav Goryachev	Russia	4,040,000	51
17	2	Siarhei Prymachonak	Belarus	2,780,000	35
17	3	Sergey Tikhonov	Russia	645,000	8
17	4	Aleksey Davidovich	Belarus	4,335,000	54
17	5	Igor Devkin	Russia	3,490,000	44
17	6	Martin Weiemann	Germany	900,000	11
17	7	Maksim Pitsan	Russia	3,295,000	41
17	8	Aleksandr Shuvalov	Russia	3,360,000	42
17	9	Aleksandr Levashov	Russia	4,725,000	59

18	1	Natalia Panchenko	Russia	3,470,000	43
18	2	Fedor Algazin	Russia	7,450,000	93
18	3	Mikhail Pokhlebayev	Russia	1,820,000	23
18	4	Benjamin Chalot	Hungary	7,980,000	100
18	5	Maxim Babko	Canada	8,170,000	102
18	6	Denis Ten	Russia	2,770,000	35
18	7	Svyatoslav Desimov	Russia	1,735,000	22
18	8	Petr Bartagov	Russia	1,240,000	16
18	9	Vadim Volkhonsky	Russia	4,165,000	52

19	1	Andrey Kozlenko	Russia	8,265,000	103
19	2	Nursultan Abilkassym	Kazakhstan	525,000	7
19	3	Zdenek Mach	Czech Republic	2,970,000	4
19	4	Denis Krasavin	Russia	7,015,000	88
19	5	Aleksandr Terentiev	Russia	2,170,000	27
19	6	Andrey Demidov	Russia	3,165,000	40
19	7	Aleksandr Plyatsok	Russia	2,090,000	26
19	8	Kenny Hallaert	Belgium	4,520,000	57
19	9	Oleg Zhdan	Russia	4,225,000	53

20	1	Andrey Novak	Russia	2,850,000	36
20	2	Alexander Zubov	Russia	2,710,000	34
20	3	Aleksandr Girs	Belarus	2,445,000	31
20	5	Aleksey Opalikhin	Russia	1,760,000	22
20	6	Steve O'Dwyer	Ireland	5,690,000	71
20	7	Siamion Ahrafenin	Belarus	8,125,000	102
20	8	Anatoliy Zuyev	Russia	2,635,000	33
20	9	Vadim Bulgakov	Russia	1,615,000	20

21	1	Sergey Lomakin	Russia	4,000,000	50
21	2	Timur Khamidullin	Russia	6,435,000	80
21	3	Sergey Kislinskiy	Russia	4,555,000	57
21	4	Pavel Ignatov	Russia	1,160,000	15
21	5	Christian Nolte	Germany	2,735,000	34
21	6	Badra Bazba	Russia	6,310,000	79
21	7	Pavel Fedchan	Russia	3,055,000	38
21	9	Maxim Lykov	Russia	1,950,000	24

22	1	Anatoly Filatov	Russia	3,500,000	44
22	2	Karen Arutyunyan	Russia	4,550,000	57
22	4	Leonid Sidelkovskiy	Russia	1,025,000	13
22	5	Aleksey Makarov	Russia	1,270,000	16
22	6	Dmitriy Poberzhnyy	Russia	1,765,000	22
22	7	Manig Loeser	Germany	4,350,000	54
22	8	Sofya Merkulova	Russia	2,875,000	36
22	9	Liliya Novikova	Russia	806,000	10

23	1	Sylvia Hewitt	United Kingdom	3,125,000	39
23	2	Artem Babakhanyan	Russia	3,040,000	38
23	3	Ivan Arbatsky	Russia	8,950,000	112
23	4	Aleksei Kozlov	Russia	4,875,000	61
23	5	Oleg Pavlyuchuk	Russia	2,160,000	27
23	7	Nikolay Adabekyan	Russia	5,610,000	70
23	8	Nikolay Kulemalin	Russia	3,800,000	48
23	9	Dmitriy Kopyl	Russia	255,000	3

24	1	Anton Petrov	Russia	430,000	5
24	2	Aleksey Karev	Russia	2,465,000	31
24	3	Aleksandr Chernikov	Russia	4,615,000	58
24	4	Petr Machacek	Czech Republic	4,625,000	58
24	6	Igor Kasyanov	Russia	4,570,000	57
24	7	Gleb Tremzin	Russia	4,500,000	56
24	8	Natalya Yakovleva	Russia	1,670,000	21
24	9	Anatoliy Zyrin	Russia	6,270,000	78

25	1	Kirill KruglovI	Russia	2,820,000	35
25	2	Sergey Tsoy	Uzbekistan	3,760,000	47
25	4	Andrey Verbovskiy	Russia	2,150,000	27
25	5	Moritz Dietrich	Austria	3,500,000	44
25	6	Pavel Frolov	Russia	5,760,000	72
25	7	Alexander Matveev	Russia	1,680,000	21
25	8	Oleg Chebotarev	Russia	3,120,000	39
25	9	Anton Zaytsev	Russia	3,050,000	38

26	1	Lev Mnatsakanyan	Russia	4,400,000	55
26	2	Konstantin Puchkov	Russia	8,635,000	108
26	3	Ekaterina Kolobekova	Russia	2,460,000	31
26	4	Boris Kotleba	Slovakia	3,220,000	40
26	5	Alimbay Sultanov	Kazakhstan	8,100,000	101
26	6	Sergey Chupodal	Russia	5,955,000	74
26	7	Dmitriy Selivanov	Russia	2,135,000	27
26	8	Daniel Clark	United Kingdom	6,310,000	79