Open Update - Bubble Bursts; 73 Remain for Day 3
The RUB60,000+6,000 Open Side Event drew a field of 1,000 entries throughout five starting days and 239 players returned to the tables of the Sochi Casino and Resort for Day 2, which kicked off just after 3 p.m. on Monday, August 6th, 2018.
It would take until late in the day for the bubble to burst and the 30-second shot clock was introduced one table off the money. From there on out, no player busted for 45 minutes and the bubble period itself lasted some one and a half hours before all remaining hopefuls were guaranteed at least RUB162,000 for their efforts. The last player to leave empty-handed was Denis Koprov, who lost his last 1.5 big blinds out of the big blind with king-nine against the ace-four suited of Maksim Reshetov.
Among those to cash and bust before bagging and tagging were such notables as Andrey Pateychuk (116th, RUB162,000), Andrey Kotelnikov (114th, RUB162,000), Maxim Lykov (110th, RUB162,000), Asker Aloev (101st, RUB162,000), Gleb Kovtunov (98th, RUB162,000), Mikhail Galitskiy (87th, RUB180,000) and Nikolay Fal (78th, RUB180,000). All remaining 73 contenders have RUB210,000 locked up for their efforts, while the winner can look forward to a payday of RUB10,800,000 (~$169,395).
Leading the field into Day 2 is Mikhail Aleksandrov with 47,100,000 in chips. Other notables still in contention include Denis Kushnerov (29,650,000), Anatolii Zyrin (21,825,000), Tatiana Barausova (21,400,000), Roman Tutoyan (20,025,000), Oleksii Kravchuk (15,450,000), Dragos Trofimov (14,725,000), Vitaly Lunkin (10,875,000), defending MILLIONS Russia Main Event champion Aleksandr Gofman (7,625,000) and partypoker ambassador Dzmitry Urbanovich (6,575,00).
The action will recommence at 12 p.m. local time in the Triton Poker room with blinds of 200,000/400,000 and a button ante of 400,000. Updates in Russian can be found on the Russian mypartypokerlive website.