Kazaryan Takes Lead into Day 4; 58 Players Remain

Day 3 of the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event has come to an end with 58 players coming back to the Sochi Casino at Noon Sunday, August, 12.

Two-hundred players sat down at the start of the day, with the first aim being to make the top 119 places and a spot in the money. It wasn't until midway through the fifth level of the day that Konstantin Puchkov was confirmed as the bubble boy.

Gor Kazaryan will come back as the chip leader after he bagged 45,250,000 with Luke Thursfield (41,575,000), Maxim Panyak (37,875,000), Konstantin Uspenskii (35,250,000), Viacheslav Zhukov (30,800,000), and Aleksandr Chernikov (30,500,000) all coming back with big stacks.

Russian partypoker ambassador Anatoly Filatov playing in his home MILLIONS event will also be back for Day 4 with a stack worth 30,000,000.

He is joined by further notablöes such as Chin Wei Lim (19,825,000), 2017 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event finalist Vadim Lipovka (18,075,000), Niall Farrell (14,150,000), Denis Pisarev (11,000,000), Timothy Adams (9,925,000), Artem Metalidi (4,325,000), and Vladimir Troyanovskiy (9,450,000) will also return.

Day 3 Action

When the action got underway, there were several high profile exits in the early levels including Day 1d chip leader Dmitry Yurasov, the U.K.'s Jack Sinclair and former partypoker MILLIONS champion Maria Lampropulos. Yurasov came into the day with just over four million chips but was unable to spin it up, and Sinclair had the same fate after he ran pocket kings into pocket aces in the second level of the day.

Defending partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia champion Aleksandr Gofman was also on the receiving end of a bad beat with pocket kings after he saw his opponent's ace-queen hit top pair on the board to leave Gofman very short and just a few hands later his dream of back-to-back titles was over.

Dirk Bueker, the online qualifier turned Golden Chip winner, was unable to turn his free entry in the Main Event into a profit after he ran pocket queens into pocket kings to exit before the money bubble had burst.

When the final 123 players remained, the action in the Sochi Casino Poker Room went hand-for-hand with four eliminations needed before the final 119 were in the money.

A triple elimination in a single round of hands saw well-known players Igor Yaroshevskyy, Koray Aldemir and Manig Loeser depart after they all lost their respective all ins across three tables, which meant it was the stone cold bubble time. Short stack Aleksandr Babich put his tournament life on the line and hit on the river to survive, but Puchkov didn't have such luck just a few hands later when his ace-king all in was called by Oleksii Kravchuk with pocket queens. Puchkov found no help on the board, and he was confirmed as the bubble boy.

As expected a flurry of exits occurred after the bubble burst including partypoker ambassador Philipp Gruissem, Jessica Pilkington, and Day 1C chip leader Hadi Khordbin, who saw his pocket aces cracked by the pocket sixes of Kazaryan.

PokerNews will be back with all the Day 4 action as the players aim to make the final day, so be sure to tune back in from Noon.

Main Event Day 4 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Proper	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
38	1	Shukhrat Salikhov	Uzbekistan	9,000,000	26
38	2	Vyacheslav Nikulin	Russia	12,950,000	37
38	3	Robbie Robinson	United Kingdom	3,150,000	9
38	4	Gleb Tremzin	Russia	8,425,000	24
38	5	Andrey Ivlev	Russia	12,850,000	37
38	6	Aleksandr Denisov	Russia	9,350,000	27
38	7	Timothy Adams	Canada	9,925,000	28
38	8	Niall Farrell	Scotland	14,150,000	40

39	1	Mikhail Galitskiy	Russia	29,400,000	84
39	2	Anton Sazonau	Belarus	20,000,000	57
39	3	Oleg Netaliev	Russia	19,800,000	57
39	4	Gor Kazaryan	Russia	45,250,000	129
39	5	Artem Metalidi	Ukraine	4,325,000	12
39	6	Oleksii Kravchuk	Ukraine	9,725,000	28
39	7	Anton Pronin	Russia	15,950,000	46
39	8	Aben Zholgaliev	Kazakhstan	4,250,000	12

40	1	Igor Ovcharenko	Russia	14,750,000	42
40	2	Mikhail Surin	Russia	5,900,000	17
40	3	Denis Pisarev	Russia	11,000,000	31
40	4	Vadim Lipovka	Belarus	18,075,000	52
40	5	Viktor Khodorenko	Belarus	13,350,000	38
40	7	Andrey Kotelnikov	Russia	6,800,000	19
40	8	Andrii Novak	Ukraine	11,100,000	32

41	1	Maksim Pak	Russia	12,975,000	37
41	2	Aleksandr Levashov	Russia	15,800,000	45
41	4	Andrey Malyshev	Russia	10,975,000	31
41	5	Viacheslav Zhukov	Russia	30,800,000	88
41	6	Vlada Stojanovic	Serbia	5,300,000	15
41	7	Maksin Misura	Russia	8,850,000	25
41	8	Saar Wilf	Israel	14,480,000	41

42	1	Aleksei Istomin	Russia	21,975,000	63
42	2	Ekaterina Fedyaeva	Russia	14,750,000	42
42	3	Anatoly Filatov	Russia	30,000,000	86
42	4	Alexsandr Gukov	Russia	8,875,000	25
42	6	Said Butba	Russia	24,125,000	69
42	7	Vahe Martirosyan	Armenia	11,800,000	34
42	8	Viktor Mukhin	Russia	3,200,000	9

43	1	Colin Mctaggart	United Kingdom	6,100,000	17
43	3	Aleksandr Chernikov	Russia	30,500,000	87
43	4	Roman Zhuravlev	Russia	14,450,000	41
43	5	Ramin Boyazitov	Russia	17,550,000	50
43	6	Aleksey Shaburov	Russia	6,100,000	17
43	7	Pavel Gavrish	Russia	7,850,000	22
43	8	Rinat Enkov	Russia	13,000,000	37

44	1	Vladimir Troyanovskiy	Russia	9,450,000	27
44	2	Gytis Lazauninkas	Lithuania	20,750,000	59
44	3	Andrey Pateychuk	Russia	18,250,000	52
44	4	Pavel Zuev	Russia	28,425,000	81
44	5	Sergey Pichugin	Russia	4,875,000	14
44	6	Alexey Melnikov	Russia	28,325,000	81
44	7	Dmitriy Agafonov	Russia	16,000,000	46

45	2	Konstantin Uspenskii	Russia	35,250,000	101
45	3	Maxim Panyak	Russia	37,875,000	108
45	4	Oleg Semenov	Russia	9,050,000	26
45	5	Aibek Lekerov	Kazakhstan	5,300,000	15
45	6	Luke Thursfield	United Kingdom	41,575,000	119
45	7	Chin Wei Lim	Malaysia	19,825,000	57
45	8	Shyngis Satubayev	Kazakhstan	20,100,000	57