85 von 637 Entries gehen beim RUB 175.000 Main Event der PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) im Casino Sochi in Tag 3, Denis Kushnerov sicherte sich die Führung.
Die Late Reg war noch wie gewohnt zum Start von Tag 2 möglich und 19 Spieler machten von der Option auch noch Gebrauch. So standen insgeamt 637 Entries (428 Spieler und 209 Re-Entries) zu Buche, das entspricht einem Preispool von RUB 98.722.260 (rund € 1.085.000). Damit blieb man natürlich hinter den Vorjahren (861 in 2018, 758 in 2019), dennoch kann sich die Zahl während der Corona-Pandemie sehen lassen.
Mit 255 Spielern ging es gestern dann an die Tische, das Ziel waren zunächst die 95 bezahlten Plätze, die einen Min-Cash von RUB 291.200 (rund € 3.200) sicherten. Bis zum Ende des Tages wurden nicht nur die Geldränge erreicht, 85 Spieler konnten schließlich Chips eintüten. Die meisten davon sicherte sich Denis Kushnerov. Oleksandr Sandulov, der als Chipleader in den Tag gegangen war, verpasste ebenso die Geldränge wie Artur Martirosyan und Gleb Tremzin.
Bei den Blinds 2.500/5.000 geht es heute in Tag 3, alle haben bereits den Min-Cash sicher. Auf den Sieger warten am Ende RUB 18.844.000 (rund € 207.200). Updates gibt es im russischen PokerStars Blog. Infos und den kompletten Turnierplan gibt es unter pokerstarslive.com.
Chipcounts:
| Name | Country | Chips |
| Denis Kushnerov | Russia | 786.000 |
| Sergey Chaban | Russia | 576.000 |
| Karen Gziryan | Russia | 542.000 |
| Eduard Barsegyan | Russia | 532.000 |
| Giorgiy Skhulukhiya | Russia | 490.000 |
| Viktor Tkachenko | Russia | 452.000 |
| Andrey Volkov | Russia | 449.000 |
| Egor Turubanov | Russia | 424.000 |
| Viktor Ivanov | Russia | 414.000 |
| Mikhail Kovalyuk | Russia | 414.000 |
| Aleksandr Denisov | Russia | 408.000 |
| Nikolay Fal | Russia | 391.000 |
| Konstantin Puchkov | Russia | 385.000 |
| Petr Rudnev | Russia | 383.000 |
| Sergey Aristov | Russia | 380.000 |
| Roman Gadzhiev | Russia | 370.000 |
| Artur Adamyants | Russia | 353.000 |
| Aleksey Petrov | Russia | 339.000 |
| Ruslan Bogdanov | Russia | 326.000 |
| Vadim Lipovka | Belarus | 326.000 |
| Nikita Kuznetsov | Russia | 299.000 |
| Dmitriy Kopyl | Russia | 298.000 |
| Vadim Baranov | Russia | 297.000 |
| Sergey Kharchenko | Russia | 294.000 |
| Gleb Ershov | Russia | 290.000 |
| Pavel Kazakov | Russia | 282.000 |
| Valeriy Kafitulov | Russia | 274.000 |
| Dmitriy Gromov | Russia | 264.000 |
| Vyacheslav Balaev | Russia | 255.000 |
| Yuriy Brechalov | Russia | 250.000 |
| Oleg Ustinovich | Russia | 246.000 |
| Alexey Zakharov | Russia | 245.000 |
| Vladislav Naumov | Russia | 238.000 |
| Anton Stepanov | Russia | 238.000 |
| Mikhail Zub | Russia | 236.000 |
| Aidar Davliev | Russia | 231.000 |
| Sergey Chernyavskii | Russia | 225.000 |
| Dmitrii Sukhorukov | Russia | 216.000 |
| Arutyun Saakyan | Russia | 210.000 |
| Vyacheslav Derbyshev | Russia | 206.000 |
| Andrey Danilyuk | Russia | 205.000 |
| Denis Ivannikov | Russia | 200.000 |
| Sergey Kharlamov | Russia | 190.000 |
| Anton Roschin | Russia | 184.000 |
| Andrey Surin | Russia | 183.000 |
| Artem Volodin | Russia | 179.000 |
| Arseniy Karmatskiy | Russia | 178.000 |
| Sergey Garkusha | Russia | 173.000 |
| Andrey Baranyuk | Russia | 171.000 |
| Vitaliy Pankov | Russia | 163.000 |
| Vyacheslav Zaslavskiy | Russia | 159.000 |
| Anton Konovalov | Russia | 153.000 |
| Daniil Lukin | Russia | 150.000 |
| Anvar Muratov | Russia | 150.000 |
| Albert Rafikov | Russia | 148.000 |
| Oleg Titov | Russia | 145.000 |
| Laktionov Ivan | Russia | 143.000 |
| Evgeniy Korchagin | Russia | 140.000 |
| Stanuslav Antonov | Russia | 127.000 |
| Sergey Nikiforov | Russia | 127.000 |
| Dmitriy Chernyaev | Russia | 126.000 |
| Nikolay Evdokimov | Russia | 116.000 |
| Sergey Bagirov | Russia | 111.000 |
| Filipp Aukhodeev | Russia | 110.000 |
| Vladimir Petrov | Russia | 109.000 |
| Moris Gevorgian | Russia | 103.000 |
| Roman Scherbakov | Russia | 99.000 |
| Konstantin Volkov | Russia | 94.000 |
| Denis Titenski | Belarus | 92.000 |
| Dmitriy Ponomarev | Russia | 90.000 |
| Leonid Semenyuk | Russia | 89.000 |
| Viktor Shegay | Russia | 88.000 |
| Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy | Russia | 76.000 |
| Denis Breikin | Russia | 74.000 |
| Viktor Kudinov | Russia | 73.000 |
| Nikolay Doroshenko | Russia | 71.000 |
| Sergey Pichugin | Russia | 71.000 |
| Dmitriy Shubenok | Ukraine | 69.000 |
| Andrey Kaigorodtsev | Russia | 61.000 |
| Andrey Litvinov | Russia | 54.000 |
| Iliya Mukhortov | Russia | 49.000 |
| Nikolay Tulin | Russia | 43.000 |
| Alexey Pugachev | Russia | 38.000 |
| Igor Sharaskin | Russia | 34.000 |
| Maksim Skripkin | Russia | 30.000 |
Payouts:
| POS | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE | DEAL |
| 1 | 18.844.000 ₽ | 207.024 € | ||
| 2 | 11.630.500 ₽ | 127.775 € | ||
| 3 | 8.312.500 ₽ | 91.323 € | ||
| 4 | 6.367.900 ₽ | 69.959 € | ||
| 5 | 5.044.900 ₽ | 55.424 € | ||
| 6 | 3.929.100 ₽ | 43.166 € | ||
| 7 | 2.863.000 ₽ | 31.453 € | ||
| 8 | 1.956.500 ₽ | 21.495 € | ||
| 9 | 1.550.360 ₽ | 17.033 € | ||
| 10 | 1.263.500 ₽ | 13.881 € | ||
| 11 | 1.263.500 ₽ | 13.881 € | ||
| 12 | 1.045.800 ₽ | 11.489 € | ||
| 13 | 1.045.800 ₽ | 11.489 € | ||
| 14 | 946.400 ₽ | 10.397 € | ||
| 15 | 946.400 ₽ | 10.397 € | ||
| 16 | 847.700 ₽ | 9.313 € | ||
| 17 | 847.700 ₽ | 9.313 € | ||
| 18 | 749.000 ₽ | 8.229 € | ||
| 19 | 749.000 ₽ | 8.229 € | ||
| 20 | 749.000 ₽ | 8.229 € | ||
| 21 | 650.300 ₽ | 7.144 € | ||
| 22 | 650.300 ₽ | 7.144 € | ||
| 23 | 650.300 ₽ | 7.144 € | ||
| 24 | 557.900 ₽ | 6.129 € | ||
| 25 | 557.900 ₽ | 6.129 € | ||
| 26 | 557.900 ₽ | 6.129 € | ||
| 27 | 557.900 ₽ | 6.129 € | ||
| 28 | 488.600 ₽ | 5.368 € | ||
| 29 | 488.600 ₽ | 5.368 € | ||
| 30 | 488.600 ₽ | 5.368 € | ||
| 31 | 488.600 ₽ | 5.368 € | ||
| 32 | 429.100 ₽ | 4.714 € | ||
| 33 | 429.100 ₽ | 4.714 € | ||
| 34 | 429.100 ₽ | 4.714 € | ||
| 35 | 429.100 ₽ | 4.714 € | ||
| 36 | 429.100 ₽ | 4.714 € | ||
| 37 | 429.100 ₽ | 4.714 € | ||
| 38 | 429.100 ₽ | 4.714 € | ||
| 39 | 429.100 ₽ | 4.714 € | ||
| 40 | 370.300 ₽ | 4.068 € | ||
| 41 | 370.300 ₽ | 4.068 € | ||
| 42 | 370.300 ₽ | 4.068 € | ||
| 43 | 370.300 ₽ | 4.068 € | ||
| 44 | 370.300 ₽ | 4.068 € | ||
| 45 | 370.300 ₽ | 4.068 € | ||
| 46 | 370.300 ₽ | 4.068 € | ||
| 47 | 370.300 ₽ | 4.068 € | ||
| 48 | 370.300 ₽ | 4.068 € | ||
| 49 | 370.300 ₽ | 4.068 € | ||
| 50 | 370.300 ₽ | 4.068 € | ||
| 51 | 370.300 ₽ | 4.068 € | ||
| 52 | 370.300 ₽ | 4.068 € | ||
| 53 | 370.300 ₽ | 4.068 € | ||
| 54 | 370.300 ₽ | 4.068 € | ||
| 55 | 370.300 ₽ | 4.068 € | ||
| 56 | 330.400 ₽ | 3.630 € | ||
| 57 | 330.400 ₽ | 3.630 € | ||
| 58 | 330.400 ₽ | 3.630 € | ||
| 59 | 330.400 ₽ | 3.630 € | ||
| 60 | 330.400 ₽ | 3.630 € | ||
| 61 | 330.400 ₽ | 3.630 € | ||
| 62 | 330.400 ₽ | 3.630 € | ||
| 63 | 330.400 ₽ | 3.630 € | ||
| 64 | 330.400 ₽ | 3.630 € | ||
| 65 | 330.400 ₽ | 3.630 € | ||
| 66 | 330.400 ₽ | 3.630 € | ||
| 67 | 330.400 ₽ | 3.630 € | ||
| 68 | 330.400 ₽ | 3.630 € | ||
| 69 | 330.400 ₽ | 3.630 € | ||
| 70 | 330.400 ₽ | 3.630 € | ||
| 71 | 330.400 ₽ | 3.630 € | ||
| 72 | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € | ||
| 73 | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € | ||
| 74 | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € | ||
| 75 | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € | ||
| 76 | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € | ||
| 77 | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € | ||
| 78 | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € | ||
| 79 | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € | ||
| 80 | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € | ||
| 81 | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € | ||
| 82 | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € | ||
| 83 | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € | ||
| 84 | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € | ||
| 85 | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € | ||
| 86 | Rinat Lyapin | Russia | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € |
| 87 | Arkadiy Stekolshchikov | Russia | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € |
| 88 | Maxim Lykov | Russia | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € |
| 89 | Viktor Ryzhih | Russia | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € |
| 90 | Vadzim Godzdanker | Belarus | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € |
| 91 | Viyacheslav Manakov | Russia | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € |
| 92 | Roman Rybalkin | Russia | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € |
| 93 | Georgiy Filippovich | Russia | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € |
| 94 | Andrey Kotelnikov | Russia | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € |
| 95 | Ruslan Goncharov | Russia | 291.200 ₽ | 3.199 € |