Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Nikita Myshkin |
4,030,000
230,000
|
230,000 |
Valentin Zolotilov | 3,600,000 | |
Kirill Denisenko |
3,415,000
-85,000
|
-85,000 |
Alexsandr Denisov |
3,280,000
1,980,000
|
1,980,000 |
Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy
|
1,855,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
Andrey Kotelnikov |
1,810,000
610,000
|
610,000 |
|
||
Alexander Shlyakhov |
1,745,000
-655,000
|
-655,000 |
Mikhail Zamyatin |
1,180,000
230,000
|
230,000 |
2017 PokerStars Festival Sochi
Official Final Table of Eight Photo.
There will be a short break while the official final 8 have their photo taken and the floor counts chip stacks.
Vadim Lipovka moved all in for 580,000 and got a call from Alexander Shlyakhov.
Valentin Zolotilov then went all in and after a lot of thought Shlyakhov folded.
Lipovka:
Zolotilov:
The board ran out
Lipovka was out and the official final table of eight was set.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Valentin Zolotilov |
3,600,000
200,000
|
200,000 |
Vadim Lipovka | Busted |
First hand after the break it folded to Andrey Kotelnikov who shoved for 540,000 and big blind Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy gave him a bit of a speech before calling.
Kotelnikov:
Merzhvinskiy:
Lots of Choppertunities but a board of saw Kotelnikov make a pair to double up.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy
|
1,800,000
-1,000,000
|
-1,000,000 |
Andrey Kotelnikov |
1,200,000
-1,100,000
|
-1,100,000 |
|
Level: 29
Blinds: 50,000/100,000
Ante: 10,000
The nine remain and have gone on a one hour dinner break.
Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy has been bullying the table with a lot of all-ins recently and he did the same from the small blind to Kirill Denisenko in the big blind who called.
Merzhvinskiy:
Denisenko:
The board ran out .
A big dent in Merzhvinskiy’s shoving stack .
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Kirill Denisenko |
3,500,000
1,700,000
|
1,700,000 |
Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy
|
2,800,000
-1,400,000
|
-1,400,000 |
There are still nine players in with an average stack of just under 30 big blinds.
They will go on a one hour dinner break at the end of this level and if all stays the same will come back to an average stack of 23 BBS.
Vadim Lipovka opened for 170,000 from his short stack but let his hand go when Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy three-bet him to 470,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy
|
4,200,000
1,600,000
|
1,600,000 |
Vadim Lipovka |
1,100,000
-1,100,000
|
-1,100,000 |