2017 PokerStars Championship Sochi

Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2017 PokerStars Championship Sochi

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a6
Prize
21,900,000 RUB
Event Info
Buy-in
318,000 RUB
Prize Pool
150,000,000 RUB
Entries
387
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

Kakhmazov Leads 82 After Day 2 in Sochi; ElkY and Moneymaker in Contention

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante
Nadar Kakhmazov
Nadar Kakhmazov

216 players made up the Day 2 field here at the PokerStars Championship Main Event at the Sochi Casino & Resort, including eight who bought in at the start of the day. When all was done and dusted, only 82 hopefuls remained in contention for the first ever trophy and title of a PokerStars sponsored event on Russian soil.

Today was a shortened day of just five 75-minute levels, and the blinds started at 500/1,000 with an ante of 100. And by the end of those five levels it was Nadar Kakhmazov who leads with 481,500. The Russian came into the day with a healthy stack of 120,000 and emerged as one of the bigger stacks early on, easily cresting the 200,000 mark. As the day drew on he picked up chips in both rooms and is now in prime position ahead of Day 2.

Shortly behind him is Seyed Ghavam (415,500), Oleg Chebotarev (371,500), Sergey Isaev (282,500), Timur Khamidullin (272,500) and Alexander Lakhov.

There were two PokerStars Team Pros in the field at the start of the day, and two remain at the end of Day 2. Both former EPT Champion Bertrand ‘Elky’ Grospellier (265,000) and former WSOP Main Event Champion Chris Moneymaker (118,000) bagged up healthy stacks, and will be aiming to make the money on Day 3.

Day 1b chip leader Jason Wheeler is still in the mix having enduring a swingy day remarking at one point: "It's going to be one of those fucking days," after doubling up an opponent when his Ace-Queen failed to overcome the others Ace-King. “It’s just frustrating when you run rings around people, and they get dizzy and you lose flips,” he was heard to remark later in Day 2. Regardless of how his day went, Wheeler will still be taking 210,000 into Day 3.

Other notables include WPT Amsterdam champion Daniyar Aubakirov (240,000), Nacho Barbero (216,000), Mikhail Rudoy (223,000), Jonas Lauck (219,000) and Vladimir Troyanovskiy (161,500).

The exact prize pool and payouts of the PokerStars Championship Sochi Main Event were also confirmed today. The RUB 150,000,000 prize pool meant that a whopping RUB 29,100,000 (€459,364 / $514,026) will be going to first prize, along with the title and trophy of PokerStars Championship winner. 55 places will be paid, and a min-cash is worth RUB 735,000 (€11,602 / $12,983). The money bubble expected to burst early on Day 3.

The plan for Day 3 is to play one 75-minute level, followed by four levels of 90 minutes. There will be a break after every level.

LevelDurationSmall BlindBig BlindAnte
1475 min15003000500
1590 min20004000500
1690 min25005000500
1790 min300060001000
1890 min400080001000

Main Event Day 3 Seat Draw

TableSeatPlayerCountryChip Count
11Yurii ZdanovskyiUkraine122,000
12Michal MajewskiPoland75,000
13Yehor FilipenkoUkraine30,500
14Denis PavlenkoUzbekistan77,500
15Yulius SepmanRussian Federation35,800
16Oleg ChebotarevRussian Federation371,500
18Igor DimitrijevicSerbia76,000
     
21Seyed GhavamIran415,500
22Nadar KakhmazovRussian Federation481,500
23Nacho BarberoArgentina216,000
25Artem VezhenkovRussian Federation157,000
26Daniyar AubakirovKazakhstan240,000
27Oleg LipkinRussian Federation161,500
28Vitaliy LiRussian Federation210,000
     
32Jonas LauckGermany219,000
33Andrey IvlevRussian Federation57,500
34Daniil KiselevRussian Federation64,000
35Boris YanpolskiyRussian Federation95,000
36Mikhail RudoyRussian Federation223,000
37Alexander NekrasovRussian Federation67,500
38Said ButbaRussian Federation250,000
     
41Ruslan VoitovichRussian Federation65,000
42Dmitry ChopRussian Federation161,000
43Andrei ChernokozRussian Federation190,000
44Anton GililovRussian Federation220,000
45Kostiantyn TupaloUkraine178,500
46Pavel IgnatovRussian Federation74,000
47Arash KhosraviIran127,000
     
51Dmitriy MotorovRussian Federation48,500
52Mikalai VaskaboinikauBelarus42,700
53Aram VartevanyanRussian Federation127,500
54Vladimir DemenkovRussian Federation69,500
55Olga FinogenovaRussian Federation77,500
56Andrey RazovRussian Federation139,500
57Dmitry NikitinRussian Federation131,000
58Pavel ShirshikovRussian Federation230,000
     
61Artsiom ZhadinskyBelarus206,000
62Alexander LakhovRussian Federation268,500
63Alexandr PotievskiyRussian Federation163,000
64Andrey MorgunRussian Federation35,000
65Alexey NikolenkoRussian Federation36,500
66Bertrand GrospellierFrance265,000
67Igor SharaskinRussian Federation45,000
68Vladislav TonkikhRussian Federation83,000
     
71Gaby LivshitzIsrael72,500
72Roman SeleznevRussian Federation80,500
73Lavrentiy NiKazakhstan81,500
74Nikolay ProkhorskiyRussian Federation210,000
75Ivan NeiaskinRussian Federation108,500
76Alexey FedinRussian Federation39,000
77Abraham PassetGermany69,500
78Dmitry PonomarevRussian Federation134,000
     
81Mikhail SoltanovRussian Federation56,000
82Dmitrii GrinenkoRussian Federation114,000
83Ulrich JungenSwitzerland99,000
84Vladimir TroyanovskiyRussian Federation161,500
85Sergey FeklisovRussian Federation237,000
86Mikhail GalitskiRussian Federation92,000
87Mikhail MolchanovRussian Federation149,500
     
91Maxim LykovRussian Federation96,500
92Andrei ShkerinRussian Federation176,000
93Jorg BohmeGermany69,500
94Dmitry VitkindRussian Federation215,000
95Yury FilimonovRussian Federation46,500
96Aleksandr ZhilinskiiRussian Federation56,500
97Maksim PisarenkoRussian Federation207,000
98Junya YamadaJapan147,000
     
101Sergey IsupovRussian Federation194,000
102Konstantin ToloknoRussian Federation136,000
103Ivan KozyrevRussian Federation47,000
104Vladimir DobrovolskiyRussian Federation120,000
105Konstantin BugaevRussian Federation50,000
106Pavel KovalenkoRussian Federation187,500
107Alexandr MinakovRussian Federation140,500
108Jason WheelerUSA210,000
     
111Dmitry ManashovRussian Federation87,500
112Timur BubnovRussian Federation272,500
113Artem SavchenkoRussian Federation168,000
114Chris MoneymakerUSA118,000
115Sergey IsaevRussian Federation282,500
116Vahe MartirosyanArmenia122,000
117Gevorg OxojanUkraine192,000

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