Die PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) ist zu Gast in Sochi und lädt zu den EPT Open Sochi, auch Chris Moneymakers Road to PSPC legt einen Stopp ein. Das Festival lockt überwiegend Russen an die Tische und so sieht es auch beim RUB 18.200 NLH Weekend Deepstack Opener aus.
Es hat schon ein wenig etwas von „Stell dir vor, es ist EPT und niemandem fällt es auf“. Zumindest fast niemanden außerhalb von Russland oder benachbarten Staaten. Das sollte zum RUB 133.000 EPT Open Sochi Main Event (9. bis 14. Oktober) zwar noch ein bisschen anders werden, aber der Auftakt beim RUB 18.200 NLH Weekend war tatsächlich überwiegend russisch.
651 Entries hatten sich zu den drei Starttagen eingefunden, gespielt wurde jeweils bis zum Erreichen der Geldränge. RUB 10.481.000 (rund € 148.000) landeten im Pot, der Sieger kann sich auf RUB 1.998.000 (rund € 28.000) freuen.
96 Spieler gehen heute angeführt von Artem Rogal ins Finale. Er konnte die Millionengrenze durchbrechen, knapp darunter blieb Fedor Semenov. Bei den Blinds 6k/12k in Level 18 geht es weiter.
Das Main Event der EPT Open Sochi beginnt am 9. Oktober, am 11. Oktober beginnt das Moneymakers Road to PSPC, das mit RUB 10.500 (rund € 150) ein sehr günstiger Weg zum Platinum Pass für die PSPC Barcelona 2020 ist.
Alle Infos rund um das Festival gibt es unter pokerstarslive.com, auf Pokernews.com wird es auch eine Live-Coverage geben.
Redraw:
| Player | Country | Chips | Table | Seat |
| Artem Rogal | Russia | 1.012.000 | 5 | 3 |
| Fedor Semenov | Russia | 962.000 | 10 | 7 |
| Michael Rodrigues | Portugal | 791.000 | 1 | 5 |
| Anton Kutsenko | Russia | 751.000 | 7 | 7 |
| Andrey Ovechkin | Russia | 687.000 | 11 | 6 |
| Sergey Ovcharenko | Russia | 672.000 | 8 | 4 |
| Roman Kovalev | Russia | 661.000 | 11 | 5 |
| Grant Kiviryan | Russia | 655.000 | 6 | 8 |
| Alexandr Savchenko | Russia | 655.000 | 8 | 8 |
| Andrey Ivlev | Russia | 652.000 | 2 | 5 |
| Aleksey Krasnov | Russia | 649.000 | 8 | 2 |
| Ruslan Spivak | Russia | 641.000 | 4 | 8 |
| Andrey Baranyuk | Russia | 632.000 | 5 | 8 |
| Denis Likhachev | Russia | 618.000 | 7 | 5 |
| Andrey Vasilyev | Russia | 615.000 | 2 | 8 |
| Yernat Tumanshiyev | Kazakhstan | 612.000 | 12 | 8 |
| Roman Peresypkin | Russia | 611.000 | 5 | 4 |
| Evgeniy Korchagin | Russia | 600.000 | 7 | 1 |
| Dmitry Suchkov | Russia | 598.000 | 6 | 1 |
| Roman Nuraev | Russia | 595.000 | 2 | 4 |
| Konstantin Aleksandrov | Russia | 556.000 | 4 | 5 |
| Anzor Lepshokov | Russia | 512.000 | 6 | 6 |
| Valeriy Avanesyan | Russia | 505.000 | 5 | 5 |
| Vladimir Kurovskiy | Russia | 501.000 | 5 | 6 |
| Ivan Petrov | Russia | 495.000 | 12 | 4 |
| Fanil Ishbulatov | Russia | 455.000 | 3 | 5 |
| Alexey Melnikov | Russia | 441.000 | 12 | 1 |
| Vladimir Zakharov | Russia | 426.000 | 4 | 1 |
| Michael Abaev | Israel | 421.000 | 9 | 6 |
| Ilya Tyurin | Russia | 418.000 | 1 | 1 |
| Michail Avdoshkevich | Russia | 410.000 | 8 | 1 |
| Vsevolod Nikolaev | Russia | 407.000 | 6 | 2 |
| Suren Grigoryan | Russia | 405.000 | 12 | 5 |
| Andrey Nemzorov | Russia | 390.000 | 6 | 7 |
| Ivan Sopkin | Russia | 389.000 | 10 | 4 |
| Anatoliy Filonenko | Russia | 388.000 | 3 | 8 |
| Pavel Chaikin | Russia | 377.000 | 3 | 4 |
| Sergey Gabrielyan | Russia | 375.000 | 10 | 1 |
| Kirill Yakimov | Russia | 360.000 | 11 | 8 |
| Azamat Rakaev | Kyrgyzstan | 358.000 | 4 | 2 |
| Aleksey Istomin | Russia | 350.000 | 2 | 3 |
| Yuriy Melnik | Russia | 346.000 | 1 | 8 |
| Rustam Latypov | Russia | 338.000 | 9 | 2 |
| Dmitriy Sibirin | Russia | 328.000 | 5 | 1 |
| Andrey Uvarov | Russia | 324.000 | 11 | 7 |
| Alexey Afanasev | Russia | 319.000 | 2 | 7 |
| Askar Nuridenov | Russia | 310.000 | 5 | 2 |
| Garik Tamasyan | Armenia | 292.000 | 11 | 2 |
| Aleksandr Chukhlantsev | Russia | 287.000 | 2 | 6 |
| Vadim Gayduk | Belarus | 285.000 | 4 | 6 |
| Andrey Gulyy | Russia | 279.000 | 1 | 3 |
| Evgeniy Sboev | Russia | 270.000 | 12 | 3 |
| Igor Vysochin | Russia | 256.000 | 3 | 2 |
| Sarkis Karabadzhakyan | Russia | 250.000 | 12 | 2 |
| Sergey Kuzmin | Russia | 245.000 | 9 | 7 |
| Serhii Hrebeniuk | Ukraine | 236.000 | 3 | 6 |
| Sergey Popyuk | Russia | 227.000 | 11 | 3 |
| Ezatulla Amani | Russia | 205.000 | 3 | 3 |
| Vartan Manucharyan | Russia | 205.000 | 8 | 6 |
| Renan Babayan | Russia | 200.000 | 4 | 4 |
| Vadim Kuvshynov | Russia | 200.000 | 6 | 4 |
| Roman Lesko | Russia | 200.000 | 8 | 7 |
| Evgeny Panchenko | Russia | 196.000 | 10 | 3 |
| Sergey Pichugin | Russia | 195.000 | 10 | 8 |
| Eldar Ilmetov | Russia | 189.000 | 11 | 4 |
| Anatoly Zuev | Russia | 187.000 | 2 | 1 |
| Sergey Murashov | Russia | 186.000 | 12 | 7 |
| Vladimir Gordienko | Russia | 174.000 | 12 | 6 |
| Xuan Gao | China | 172.000 | 11 | 1 |
| Artem Metelskiy | Russia | 171.000 | 8 | 3 |
| Sergey Bagirov | Russia | 171.000 | 8 | 5 |
| Igor Izmailov | Russia | 169.000 | 7 | 2 |
| Stepan Mikhno | Russia | 169.000 | 9 | 3 |
| Rafail Sushkin | Russia | 167.000 | 4 | 7 |
| Nikita Frizyak | Russia | 167.000 | 6 | 3 |
| Ivan Vasilev | Russia | 162.000 | 1 | 2 |
| Natalya Blagovich | Russia | 160.000 | 9 | 4 |
| Nikolay Abramov | Russia | 154.000 | 2 | 2 |
| Yuriy Guliy | Russia | 152.000 | 10 | 2 |
| Dmitriy Isaev | Russia | 150.000 | 1 | 6 |
| Dmitriy Belikov | Russia | 147.000 | 1 | 7 |
| Aleksey Solovev | Russia | 137.000 | 3 | 1 |
| Sergey Skorobach | Russia | 136.000 | 9 | 5 |
| Zurab Avanesyan | Russia | 126.000 | 7 | 3 |
| Konstantin Galchenko | Russia | 122.000 | 6 | 5 |
| Anton Iltuganov | Russia | 120.000 | 3 | 7 |
| Yan Birg | Russia | 112.000 | 7 | 4 |
| Ivan Sheptytskyi | Ukraine | 104.000 | 9 | 8 |
| Dmitriy Tsymbal | Russia | 95.000 | 7 | 8 |
| Karen Arutyunyan | Russia | 92.000 | 4 | 3 |
| Ilya Kochnev | Russia | 84.000 | 5 | 7 |
| Aleksandr Magda | Russia | 76.000 | 7 | 6 |
| Ivan Zaycev | Russia | 56.000 | 10 | 6 |
| Alexsandr Grishin | Russia | 54.000 | 1 | 4 |
| Aleksey Badulin | Russia | 48.000 | 9 | 1 |
| Sonia-Veronika Shashikhina | Russia | 47.000 | 10 | 5 |
Payouts:
| POS | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE |
| 1 | 1.995.000 ₽ | ||
| 2 | 1.232.000 ₽ | ||
| 3 | 882.000 ₽ | ||
| 4 | 672.000 ₽ | ||
| 5 | 532.000 ₽ | ||
| 6 | 413.000 ₽ | ||
| 7 | 301.000 ₽ | ||
| 8 | 203.000 ₽ | ||
| 9 | 163.800 ₽ | ||
| 10 | 134.400 ₽ | ||
| 11 | 134.400 ₽ | ||
| 12 | 111.300 ₽ | ||
| 13 | 111.300 ₽ | ||
| 14 | 100.800 ₽ | ||
| 15 | 100.800 ₽ | ||
| 16 | 90.300 ₽ | ||
| 17 | 90.300 ₽ | ||
| 18 | 79.800 ₽ | ||
| 19 | 79.800 ₽ | ||
| 20 | 79.800 ₽ | ||
| 21 | 69.300 ₽ | ||
| 22 | 69.300 ₽ | ||
| 23 | 69.300 ₽ | ||
| 24 | 59.500 ₽ | ||
| 25 | 59.500 ₽ | ||
| 26 | 59.500 ₽ | ||
| 27 | 59.500 ₽ | ||
| 28 | 51.800 ₽ | ||
| 29 | 51.800 ₽ | ||
| 30 | 51.800 ₽ | ||
| 31 | 51.800 ₽ | ||
| 32 | 45.500 ₽ | ||
| 33 | 45.500 ₽ | ||
| 34 | 45.500 ₽ | ||
| 35 | 45.500 ₽ | ||
| 36 | 45.500 ₽ | ||
| 37 | 45.500 ₽ | ||
| 38 | 45.500 ₽ | ||
| 39 | 45.500 ₽ | ||
| 40 | 39.200 ₽ | ||
| 41 | 39.200 ₽ | ||
| 42 | 39.200 ₽ | ||
| 43 | 39.200 ₽ | ||
| 44 | 39.200 ₽ | ||
| 45 | 39.200 ₽ | ||
| 46 | 39.200 ₽ | ||
| 47 | 39.200 ₽ | ||
| 48 | 39.200 ₽ | ||
| 49 | 39.200 ₽ | ||
| 50 | 39.200 ₽ | ||
| 51 | 39.200 ₽ | ||
| 52 | 39.200 ₽ | ||
| 53 | 39.200 ₽ | ||
| 54 | 39.200 ₽ | ||
| 55 | 39.200 ₽ | ||
| 56 | 35.000 ₽ | ||
| 57 | 35.000 ₽ | ||
| 58 | 35.000 ₽ | ||
| 59 | 35.000 ₽ | ||
| 60 | 35.000 ₽ | ||
| 61 | 35.000 ₽ | ||
| 62 | 35.000 ₽ | ||
| 63 | 35.000 ₽ | ||
| 64 | 35.000 ₽ | ||
| 65 | 35.000 ₽ | ||
| 66 | 35.000 ₽ | ||
| 67 | 35.000 ₽ | ||
| 68 | 35.000 ₽ | ||
| 69 | 35.000 ₽ | ||
| 70 | 35.000 ₽ | ||
| 71 | 35.000 ₽ | ||
| 72 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 73 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 74 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 75 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 76 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 77 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 78 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 79 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 80 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 81 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 82 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 83 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 84 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 85 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 86 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 87 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 88 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 89 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 90 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 91 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 92 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 93 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 94 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 95 | 30.800 ₽ | ||
| 96 | 30.800 ₽ |