A New Champion Lingers on Day 6 of the PokerStars Championship Main Event in Sochi

A new PokerStars Championship Main Event Champion will be crowned in Sochi, Russia later today. Just six players return to battle for all the glory, the trophy, bragging rights, and maybe a nice sum of RUB 29,100,000 or just over USD 500,000.

Kazakhstani hopeful Lavrentiy Ni will wield the big stack when play resumes at 12:30 p.m. local time inside the gorgeous Sochi Casino and Resort. Though his chip lead of 2,949,000 is only one big blind ahead of Russian player Pavel Shirshikov.

Most notably and likely the odds-on favorite is Russian poker legend Vladimir Troyanovskiy. Troyanovskiy begins play sitting in the fourth position but still has a very playable stack. Fellow countryman Dmitry Vitkind also has an impressive resume and will be looking to climb the counts pretty early.

Seat Assignments for the Final Table

Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Seyed Ghavam	Iran	2,124,000	88
2	Vladimir Troyanovskiy	Russian Federation	1,791,000	74
3	Pavel Shirshikov	Russian Federation	2,914,000	121
4	Dmitry Vitkind	Russian Federation	1,050,000	43
5	Lavrentiy Ni	Kazakhstan	2,949,000	122
6	Timur Bubnov	Russian Federation	783,000	32

Play will resume in Level 23 with about 26 minutes left on the clock. Blinds are currently 12,000/24,000 with a 4,000 chip ante. Action can be caught live, on a 30-minute delay kicking off at 1:00 p.m. and will continue until one player has all of the 11,610,000 chips in play. Good luck to all players.

Remaining Payouts PokerStars Championship Sochi Main Event