Die Starttage beim RUB 191.800 (rund €2.700) Main Event der PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Sochi sind gespielt. 692 stehen insgesamt bereits zu Buche, die Late Reg ist aber noch offen. Nach wie vor ist Aleksander Denisov in Führung.
Tag 1B wurde mit 60 Minuten Levels, Tag 1C mit 30 Minuten Levels gespielt. Erneut war die Beteiligung überwiegend russisch, aber doch auch viele der Qualifikanten hatten sich für Tag 1B entschieden. Clemens Erretkamps, Julius Schamburg, Robert Rohr, Stefan Bormann, Stephan Strauch und Tobias Matuschek waren die deutschsprachigen Vertreter an Tag 1B, kein DACH Spieler war in Tag 1C dabei. Nach den zehn Levels der beiden Flights war die Bilanz dann noch überschaubarer, denn nur Tobias Matuschek konnte Chips eintüten und mit 24.500 waren es auch noch sehr wenige.
359 Entries wurden an Tag 1B verzeichnet, 82 versuchten es dann noch an Tag 1C. Damit waren es insgesamt 692, davon sind mindestens 272 in Tag 2 gehen. Die Late Reg ist noch zum Start von Tag 2 möglich. Chipleader ist nach wie vor Aleksander Deniov, der mit seinen 498.600 Chips einen klaren Vorsprung hat. Die Blinds sind bei 800/1600, wenn die Spieler in Tag 2 starten. Eugen Fritzler (62.500), Klaus Haunschmidt (54.900), Oleg Drews (37.400) und Tobias Matuschek (24.500) sind die deutschsprachigen Vertreter.
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| Name | Country | Chips | Table | Seat |
| Aleksandr Denisov | Russia | 498.600 | 34 | 8 |
| Illia Korobkin | Ukraine | 352.700 | 12 | 1 |
| Viktor Ustimov | Russia | 307.500 | 41 | 6 |
| Roman Gadzhiev | Russia | 240.900 | 9 | 1 |
| Serafim Kovalevsky | Russia | 233.900 | 35 | 6 |
| Denis Sapozhnikov | Russia | 207.700 | 24 | 5 |
| Igor Grytsak | Ukraine | 197.500 | 22 | 7 |
| Leonid Semenyuk | Russia | 195.200 | 36 | 3 |
| Sihao Zhang | Luxembourg | 194.200 | 16 | 5 |
| Aleksey Falko | Belarus | 192.900 | 20 | 5 |
| Yuriy Guliy | Russia | 191.300 | 32 | 8 |
| Said Butba | Russia | 180.900 | 15 | 7 |
| Uri Gilboa | Israel | 177.700 | 21 | 3 |
| Nikita Kuznetsov | Russia | 177.300 | 15 | 3 |
| Rudolf Domin | Russia | 169.600 | 30 | 6 |
| Dmitriy Shutenko | Russia | 168.000 | 1 | 1 |
| Aben Zholgaliev | Kazakhstan | 168.000 | 36 | 2 |
| Nikolay Plastinin | Russia | 166.600 | 5 | 3 |
| Sergey Chaban | Russia | 163.000 | 6 | 6 |
| Murun Ganzorig | Mongolia | 162.700 | 24 | 3 |
| Artem Vezhenkov | Russia | 161.000 | 40 | 3 |
| Eduard Burd | Israel | 158.600 | 28 | 2 |
| Yang Wang | China | 153.300 | 34 | 1 |
| Sergey Litvinov | Russia | 148.200 | 39 | 8 |
| Danil Bukharin | Russia | 145.100 | 22 | 8 |
| Xiaotian Yang | China | 144.400 | 35 | 8 |
| Andrey Lukyanov | Russia | 143.900 | 33 | 6 |
| Pavel Polikarpov | Russia | 140.000 | 3 | 1 |
| Aram Vartevanyan | Russia | 138.200 | 11 | 6 |
| Mikhail Aleksandrov | Russia | 137.500 | 16 | 7 |
| Alexey Pugachev | Russia | 136.600 | 1 | 7 |
| Ramon Colillas | Spain | 134.000 | 26 | 6 |
| Aleksandr Osharov | Russia | 133.700 | 20 | 1 |
| Ermek Usenov | Kyrgyzstan | 133.200 | 16 | 6 |
| Andrey Chernokoz | Russia | 132.600 | 32 | 6 |
| Vanush Mnatsakanyan | Russia | 130.000 | 2 | 8 |
| Artem Petrov | Russia | 128.700 | 9 | 2 |
| Sriharsha Doddapaneni | India | 128.500 | 2 | 2 |
| Rachid Amamou | Switzerland | 128.500 | 7 | 6 |
| Andrey Andreev | Russia | 124.300 | 18 | 1 |
| Garik Tamasyan | Armenia | 124.300 | 25 | 3 |
| Giorgiy Skhulukhiya | Russia | 123.700 | 37 | 5 |
| Almat Idrisov | Kazakhstan | 123.600 | 8 | 2 |
| Vytautas Semaska | Lithuania | 123.000 | 23 | 8 |
| Sergey Kolyasnikov | Russia | 119.400 | 4 | 1 |
| Matous Houzvicek | Czech Republic | 118.000 | 10 | 8 |
| Stanislav Shchipalov | Russia | 117.900 | 11 | 5 |
| Garri Tevosov | Russia | 117.000 | 2 | 1 |
| Andrey Gurev | Russia | 116.500 | 23 | 2 |
| Viktor Kudinov | Russia | 115.500 | 21 | 5 |
| Timur Khamidullin | Russia | 115.000 | 10 | 1 |
| Vitaliy Pankov | Russia | 115.000 | 25 | 8 |
| Maksim Bukreev | Russia | 113.200 | 14 | 1 |
| Martin Pecnik | Slovakia | 110.000 | 19 | 6 |
| Nikolay Abramov | Russia | 110.000 | 24 | 1 |
| Alexandr Sergutin | Russia | 109.700 | 14 | 7 |
| Vitaliy Karaivan | Russia | 107.600 | 6 | 2 |
| Rinat Tulepbergenov | Kazakhstan | 105.600 | 37 | 1 |
| Alexsey Ponomarenko | Russia | 105.500 | 33 | 3 |
| Sergey Chantsev | Russia | 104.800 | 7 | 5 |
| Lev Moiseenko | Russia | 104.000 | 29 | 1 |
| Alexsey Golubev | Russia | 103.800 | 30 | 3 |
| Aleksandr Sheshukov | Russia | 103.600 | 5 | 7 |
| Vladimir Romodanov | Russia | 103.000 | 24 | 2 |
| Ekaterina Shevchenko | Russia | 101.300 | 30 | 2 |
| Vasiliy Tsapko | Russia | 97.700 | 11 | 3 |
| Oleg Pavlyuchuk | Russia | 95.600 | 2 | 6 |
| Alexsey Gatsko | Russia | 95.600 | 8 | 8 |
| Meng Wang | China | 94.200 | 35 | 5 |
| Andrey Kryazhev | Russia | 93.000 | 4 | 4 |
| Dmitriy Belikov | Russia | 93.000 | 40 | 5 |
| Anatolii Zyrin | Russia | 92.500 | 1 | 6 |
| Andrey Malyshev | Russia | 92.100 | 26 | 7 |
| Andrejs Trofimovs | Latvia | 90.000 | 8 | 6 |
| Alexsey Bersenev | Russia | 89.300 | 36 | 5 |
| Fergan Coyle | Ireland | 88.800 | 12 | 8 |
| Aleksandr Roldugin | Russia | 88.800 | 24 | 6 |
| Tobby Drimer | Israel | 88.600 | 2 | 7 |
| Sergey Konovalov | Russia | 88.000 | 1 | 2 |
| Sergey Melnichuk | Russia | 87.900 | 31 | 8 |
| Sergey Perelygin | Russia | 87.200 | 26 | 2 |
| Vladimir Ovshinov | Russia | 86.900 | 3 | 6 |
| Rob Van Der Woude | Netherlands | 86.600 | 32 | 5 |
| Vasilijus Piskunovas | Lithuania | 86.300 | 40 | 6 |
| Or Arie Patreanu | Israel | 85.500 | 33 | 8 |
| Andrey Ivlev | Russia | 84.600 | 20 | 6 |
| Artur Martirosyan | Russia | 84.300 | 22 | 2 |
| Dmitry Yurasov | Russia | 84.200 | 28 | 5 |
| Leonid Isaychenkov | Russia | 83.800 | 5 | 5 |
| Sergey Menshov | Kazakhstan | 83.100 | 15 | 8 |
| Mikhail Zavoloka | Russia | 82.800 | 23 | 1 |
| Daniil Kiselev | Russia | 82.700 | 17 | 3 |
| Oleg Eltsov | Russia | 82.300 | 34 | 5 |
| Vladimir Demenkov | Russia | 82.200 | 33 | 5 |
| Aleksandr Altynov | Russia | 82.100 | 2 | 5 |
| Aleksey Khromov | Russia | 81.100 | 17 | 1 |
| Wenling Gao | China | 80.900 | 11 | 2 |
| Vitaliy Li | Russia | 80.700 | 16 | 8 |
| Anton Smirnov | Russia | 80.700 | 36 | 6 |
| Dorian Rios Pavon | Venezuela | 79.500 | 41 | 2 |
| Mateusz Baclawski | Poland | 79.200 | 14 | 2 |
| Anant Purohit | India | 79.000 | 7 | 4 |
| Keisuke Hikosaka | Japan | 78.700 | 3 | 8 |
| Arseniy Karmatskiy | Russia | 78.100 | 23 | 6 |
| Alexandr Shelukhin | Russia | 77.800 | 17 | 8 |
| Nikita Kalinin | Russia | 77.700 | 19 | 2 |
| Vladimir Lubyanov | Russia | 77.300 | 3 | 2 |
| Viktor Rizhih | Russia | 76.600 | 34 | 3 |
| Jayjit Ray | India | 76.500 | 38 | 3 |
| Arkadiy Stekolshchikov | Russia | 76.300 | 17 | 5 |
| Andrey Kotelnikov | Russia | 76.100 | 28 | 3 |
| Vasiliy Mukhtalov | Russia | 75.700 | 6 | 1 |
| Roman Kozhevnikov | Russia | 75.600 | 26 | 5 |
| Mikhail Lobanov | Russia | 74.600 | 16 | 1 |
| Aleksey Savenkov | Russia | 74.300 | 1 | 5 |
| Sergey Petrushevskiy | Russia | 73.800 | 12 | 6 |
| Aleksandr Milyaev | Russia | 73.500 | 15 | 6 |
| Natik Ismailov | Russia | 73.500 | 22 | 1 |
| Josef Snejberg | Czech Republic | 71.300 | 20 | 2 |
| John Enright | Ireland | 71.100 | 27 | 8 |
| Irshat Shaykhov | Russia | 70.500 | 8 | 5 |
| Dmitriy Zhdanov | Russia | 69.600 | 23 | 5 |
| Bogdan Chyrkov | Ukraine | 69.600 | 27 | 5 |
| Azamat Tyazhgov | Russia | 69.000 | 20 | 8 |
| Semen Vlyakh | Russia | 68.100 | 39 | 1 |
| Sergenii Blagodarnii | Russia | 67.800 | 17 | 2 |
| Francisco Benitez | Uruguay | 67.100 | 13 | 8 |
| Sergei Popov | Russia | 66.500 | 31 | 2 |
| Vladislav Prtrov | Russia | 66.300 | 14 | 6 |
| Aidyn Kanabekov | Kazakhstan | 64.600 | 25 | 6 |
| Alex Bilokur | Russia | 64.200 | 4 | 3 |
| Vyacheslav Kovantsev | Russia | 64.200 | 5 | 8 |
| Ruslan Mityaev | Ukraine | 63.900 | 12 | 7 |
| Sergey Baburin | Russia | 63.700 | 11 | 1 |
| Vadim Baranov | Russia | 63.700 | 21 | 4 |
| Igor Kuznetsov | Russia | 63.500 | 31 | 1 |
| Maksim Illarionov | Russia | 63.300 | 16 | 2 |
| Ivan Svitlychnyi | Russia | 63.100 | 21 | 2 |
| Vahe Voskanyan | Armenia | 63.000 | 10 | 4 |
| Eugen Fritzler | Germany | 62.500 | 3 | 3 |
| Mikhail Shalamov | Russia | 62.100 | 15 | 2 |
| Ezatulla Amani | Russia | 61.800 | 22 | 5 |
| Alexandr Steblina | Russia | 61.100 | 30 | 5 |
| Konstantin Puchkov | Russia | 60.800 | 10 | 5 |
| Evgeniy Tomilin | Russia | 60.700 | 7 | 1 |
| Yunus Tuguz | Russia | 60.500 | 18 | 4 |
| Nikita Korolev | Russia | 59.200 | 25 | 2 |
| Qiaonan Liu | China | 59.000 | 17 | 6 |
| Bertrand Ciaglo | France | 58.800 | 32 | 3 |
| Grygoriy Shevchenko | Ukraine | 58.400 | 29 | 6 |
| Nikolay Chebotarev | Russia | 57.000 | 39 | 5 |
| Vladimir Drokin | Ukraine | 56.800 | 18 | 8 |
| Maksim Pervenenok | Russia | 56.700 | 6 | 8 |
| Sergey Druzhinin | Russia | 56.600 | 13 | 4 |
| Maksim Pisarenko | Russia | 55.900 | 39 | 2 |
| Sergey Galaktionov | Russia | 55.600 | 32 | 2 |
| Locif Tizouiar | France | 55.300 | 3 | 5 |
| Gennadiy Kalinichenko | Russia | 55.200 | 5 | 6 |
| Vladimir Gordienko | Russia | 55.200 | 15 | 1 |
| Stepan Mikhno | Russia | 55.000 | 39 | 3 |
| Vitaliy Avanesyan | Russia | 55.000 | 41 | 3 |
| Klaus Haunschmidt | Austria | 54.900 | 21 | 8 |
| Ivan Govorov | Russia | 54.700 | 17 | 7 |
| Aleksey Istomin | Russia | 54.400 | 7 | 8 |
| Anatoly Zuev | Russia | 53.600 | 33 | 2 |
| Aditya Sushant | India | 53.300 | 11 | 8 |
| Kiryl Radzivonau | Belarus | 53.000 | 41 | 5 |
| Sergey Bagirov | Russia | 52.900 | 18 | 5 |
| Pavel Ignatov | Russia | 51.500 | 22 | 6 |
| Cyril Morisset | France | 51.400 | 19 | 8 |
| Tatyana Barausova | Russia | 50.800 | 5 | 1 |
| Vyacheslav Mizun | Russia | 50.600 | 31 | 6 |
| Yi Ye | China | 50.200 | 26 | 1 |
| Anatoliy Voropaev | Russia | 50.000 | 13 | 5 |
| Aleksey Opalikhin | Russia | 49.800 | 6 | 5 |
| Jiayu Ruan | China | 49.500 | 18 | 6 |
| Jean Souprayenmestry | France | 49.500 | 37 | 6 |
| Yaniv Peretz | Latvia | 49.100 | 6 | 3 |
| Mikhail Zub | Russia | 49.100 | 35 | 3 |
| Ashot Kagramanyan | Russia | 49.100 | 40 | 1 |
| Pier Varrelli | Italy | 49.000 | 6 | 7 |
| Oleg Mikhailov | Estonia | 49.000 | 35 | 1 |
| Yen-Han Chen | China | 48.700 | 20 | 3 |
| Oleg Breshkov | Russia | 47.900 | 10 | 3 |
| Andrew Carasco | Ireland | 47.600 | 5 | 2 |
| Darkhan Rakhymzhanov | Kazakhstan | 47.200 | 24 | 4 |
| Tianyou Liu | China | 46.700 | 4 | 6 |
| Kirill Egorov | Russia | 45.400 | 33 | 1 |
| Wei Jiao | China | 44.800 | 9 | 8 |
| Roman Sokolov | Russia | 44.400 | 32 | 1 |
| Yesset Aimukhanov | Kazakhstan | 44.300 | 9 | 7 |
| Andrey Danilyuk | Russia | 44.000 | 4 | 8 |
| Elvin Sarkarov | Azerbaijan | 43.700 | 12 | 2 |
| Vadim Lipovka | Belarus | 42.800 | 13 | 6 |
| Marat Begenov | Kazakhstan | 42.800 | 41 | 1 |
| Ilya Raldugin | Russia | 42.200 | 19 | 7 |
| Viktor Shegay | Russia | 41.800 | 9 | 3 |
| Ruslan Ilkhamov | Russia | 41.300 | 20 | 4 |
| Oleg Titov | Russia | 40.000 | 30 | 8 |
| Karolis Domarkas | Lithuania | 39.500 | 14 | 8 |
| Egor Gerasimchuk | Russia | 38.800 | 26 | 8 |
| Roman Novoselov | Russia | 38.700 | 4 | 2 |
| Pavel Kazakov | Russia | 38.600 | 38 | 5 |
| Denis Lavrov | Russia | 38.400 | 10 | 6 |
| Aleksandr Lakhov | Russia | 38.000 | 38 | 2 |
| Gansukh Badamsed | Mongolia | 37.600 | 37 | 3 |
| Oleg Drews | Germany | 37.400 | 12 | 5 |
| Amir Shomron | Israel | 37.300 | 2 | 3 |
| Vyacheslav Nikulin | Russia | 37.200 | 1 | 3 |
| Amir Oganyan | Russia | 37.200 | 19 | 1 |
| Anonymous player | Russia | 37.200 | 23 | 4 |
| Andriy Lyubovetskiy | Ukraine | 34.800 | 11 | 7 |
| Valeriy Vasilev | Russia | 34.800 | 37 | 8 |
| Alexander Zubov | Russia | 34.700 | 38 | 1 |
| Alexandr Lukyanov | Russia | 34.500 | 14 | 5 |
| Andrey Bondar | Russia | 34.100 | 18 | 2 |
| Andrei Mjagkov | Estonia | 33.900 | 8 | 3 |
| Maksim Panyak | Russia | 33.800 | 38 | 8 |
| Dmitriy Khrebtovich | Russia | 33.600 | 40 | 2 |
| Akzhul Dabylov | Kazakhstan | 32.600 | 19 | 5 |
| Vladimir Lappo | Belarus | 32.300 | 36 | 1 |
| Ron Sade | Israel | 30.800 | 36 | 8 |
| Alexsey Psurtcev | Russia | 30.500 | 16 | 3 |
| Denis Pisarev | Russia | 30.100 | 13 | 1 |
| Fiodar Skrunda | Belarus | 30.000 | 27 | 6 |
| Rinat Shakirov | Russia | 29.700 | 27 | 2 |
| Chen Yisha | China | 29.500 | 4 | 5 |
| Valeriy Mametiev | Russia | 29.200 | 21 | 1 |
| Andrey Kozin | Russia | 29.000 | 28 | 8 |
| Munkhbayar Nyamsuren | Mongolia | 28.800 | 29 | 5 |
| Pavel Gavrish | Russia | 28.700 | 22 | 3 |
| Yury Masliankou | Belarus | 28.300 | 29 | 8 |
| Konstantin Kvashin | Russia | 28.200 | 21 | 6 |
| Andrey Martyanov | Russia | 28.000 | 13 | 3 |
| Vitaliy Volov | Russia | 28.000 | 25 | 7 |
| Felipe Rodrigues Pantoja | Brazil | 27.500 | 27 | 1 |
| Sergey Kerzhakov | Russia | 27.000 | 28 | 1 |
| Arman Atshemyan | Armenia | 26.400 | 28 | 6 |
| Vladislav Orysenko | Russia | 25.900 | 25 | 5 |
| Dzmitry Sushchanka | Belarus | 25.700 | 12 | 3 |
| Ivan Volodko | Russia | 25.300 | 10 | 2 |
| Vasily Yarkov | Russia | 25.100 | 9 | 5 |
| Tobias Matuschek | Germany | 24.500 | 31 | 5 |
| Pengyu Lin | China | 24.100 | 23 | 3 |
| Laurynas Levinskas | Lithuania | 23.700 | 8 | 4 |
| Ivan Ruban | Russia | 23.200 | 27 | 3 |
| Nikolay Fal | Russia | 23.000 | 15 | 5 |
| Anton Danilov | Russia | 22.900 | 14 | 3 |
| Aleksey Kozlov | Russia | 22.400 | 31 | 3 |
| Yoriy Gorohov | Russia | 22.400 | 41 | 8 |
| Dmitriy Kopyl | Russia | 22.100 | 1 | 8 |
| Aleksandr Kopasov | Russia | 22.000 | 18 | 3 |
| Denis Timofeev | Russia | 21.600 | 29 | 3 |
| Aleksandr Pozdnyakov | Russia | 21.500 | 35 | 2 |
| Sergey Frizyak | Russia | 21.100 | 37 | 2 |
| Kartik Ved | India | 19.700 | 9 | 6 |
| Sergey Stazhkov | Russia | 19.400 | 24 | 8 |
| Amiran Andguladze | Russia | 18.900 | 30 | 1 |
| Tomas Fionn Macnamara | UK | 18.700 | 3 | 7 |
| Aleksey Gortikov | Russia | 18.600 | 34 | 2 |
| Ryuichiro Yamakawa | Japan | 17.600 | 26 | 3 |
| Irina Gorkaya | Russia | 17.400 | 7 | 2 |
| Aleksandr Nemtsov | Russia | 17.000 | 34 | 6 |
| Antonios Onoufriou | Cyprus | 16.700 | 13 | 2 |
| Zhuojie Mao | China | 16.200 | 25 | 1 |
| Alexey Avramenko | Russia | 16.100 | 29 | 2 |
| Nikolay Evdokimov | Russia | 15.400 | 39 | 6 |
| Serhii Holodiuk | Ukraine | 13.100 | 38 | 6 |
| Aleksandr Pustovoy | Russia | 12.200 | 8 | 1 |
| Alexsandr Kovalev | Russia | 11.200 | 7 | 3 |
| Pierre Colson | France | 9.600 | 40 | 8 |
| Adel Latypov | Russia | 9.300 | 19 | 3 |