Sergey Verkhoturov Leads Record-Breaking partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event
Level 14
: 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante
The partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia broke the record for the largest poker event in Russian history, on the day that 231 players advanced to Day 3 at the Sochi Casino & Resort.
Of those 231, 161 players will cash, with a min-cash worth 5,800 Casino Sochi Units (CSU) (approx. $5,000). The winner will walk away with a cool 1,160,000 CSU (approx. $1,000,000).
Leading the way into Day 3 is Sergey Verkhoturov with 11,050,000. In the last level of the night he picked up Kings and Aces in quick succession, taking them to showdown on the river to win multi-million chip pots which saw him soar to the top of the chip counts.
Joining him is the player sat immediately to his left Alexander Krasuntcev (10,350,000) as well as other big stacks Yury Masliakou (10,905,000) and Gary Banks (10,455,000).
Both Day 1A chip leader Matt Eardley (4,900,000) and Day 1B chip leader Dmitriy Kopyl (5,455,000) will be advancing to Day 3.
partypoker still has a strong presence with several satellite and online qualifiers making it through to Day 3, along with Sponsored Pros Anatoly Filatov, Johnny Lodden and Richard Dubini (4,715,000).
Among the players who failed to make it through to Day 3 are Leon Tsoukernik, Mikhail Shalamov, partypoker Chairman Mike Sexton, Roman Cieslik, Pavel Shirshikov, Manig Loeser, and Aleksandar Tomovic.
However, moving on to Day 3 are the likes of Bertrand Grospellier (4,130,000), Jeff Lisandro (5,335,000), Konstantin Puchkov (8,635,000), Philipp Zukernik (3,330,000), Shyngis Satubayev (2,325,000), Mark Mccluskey (4,680,000), Peter Smyth (4,443,000), Andrey Pateychuk (7,465,000), Manig Loeser (4,350,000) and Vytautas Milbutas (5,400,000).
Day 3 Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Said Butba | Russia | 5,670,000 | 71 |
| 1 | 2 | Mehmet Kolgu | Turkey | 1,490,000 | 19 |
| 1 | 3 | Viktoriya Shalneva | Russia | 6,150,000 | 77 |
| 1 | 4 | Sergey Ananyev | Russia | 2,260,000 | 28 |
| 1 | 5 | Vytautas Milbutas | Lithuania | 5,405,000 | 68 |
| 1 | 6 | Aleksey Kovalev | Russia | 5,250,000 | 66 |
| 1 | 7 | Aleksandra Babich | Russia | 635,000 | 8 |
| 1 | 8 | Andrey Arefiev | Russia | 765,000 | 10 |
| 1 | 9 | Gurkan Gurgoren | Turkey | 3,050,000 | 38 |
| 2 | 1 | Oleksiy Kravchuk | Ukraine | 4,070,000 | 51 |
| 2 | 2 | Leonid Logunov | Russia | 6,235,000 | 78 |
| 2 | 3 | Vadim Kim | Russia | 5,470,000 | 68 |
| 2 | 4 | Andrey Malyshev | Russia | 3,725,000 | 47 |
| 2 | 5 | Konstantin Chursin | Russia | 1,935,000 | 24 |
| 2 | 6 | Dmitriy Golyshev | Russia | 4,395,000 | 55 |
| 2 | 7 | Yevgeny Kafelnikov | Russia | 5,225,000 | 65 |
| 2 | 8 | Alexander Denisov | Russia | 3,670,000 | 46 |
| 2 | 9 | Aleksandr Biryukov | Russia | 1,250,000 | 16 |
| 3 | 1 | Yuriy Tuzov | Russia | 139,000 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | Dmitry Gromov | Russia | 2,675,000 | 33 |
| 3 | 3 | Mark Mccluskey | United Kingdom | 4,680,000 | 59 |
| 3 | 4 | Maksim Skripkin | Russia | 2,015,000 | 25 |
| 3 | 5 | Thomas Horton | Ireland | 725,000 | 9 |
| 3 | 6 | Petr Son | Uzbekistan | 4,555,000 | 57 |
| 3 | 7 | Oleg Titov | Russia | 5,875,000 | 73 |
| 3 | 8 | Khasan Borokov | Russia | 6,200,000 | 78 |
| 3 | 9 | Ilyaz Dosikov | Russia | 2,000,000 | 25 |
| 4 | 1 | Lev Moiseyenko | Russia | 2,410,000 | 30 |
| 4 | 2 | Govert Metaal | Netherlands | 5,640,000 | 71 |
| 4 | 3 | Alexander Krasuntcev | Russia | 10,350,000 | 129 |
| 4 | 4 | Timofey Vekshin | Russia | 4,560,000 | 57 |
| 4 | 5 | Ilya Kochnev | Russia | 4,650,000 | 58 |
| 4 | 6 | Nikita Bochkin | Russia | 915,000 | 11 |
| 4 | 7 | Igor Mochalov | Ukraine | 1,975,000 | 25 |
| 4 | 8 | Vasiliy Kurdin | Russia | 1,050,000 | 13 |
| 4 | 9 | Andrey Kaygorodtsev | Russia | 1,044,000 | 13 |
| 5 | 1 | David Coates | United Kingdom | 6,545,000 | 82 |
| 5 | 2 | Richard Dubini | Argentina | 4,715,000 | 59 |
| 5 | 3 | Armen Khachatryan | Russia | 8,075,000 | 101 |
| 5 | 4 | Andrey Chernokoz | Russia | 2,695,000 | 34 |
| 5 | 5 | Jack Sinclair | United Kingdom | 1,780,000 | 22 |
| 5 | 6 | Andreas Klatt | Germany | 5,400,000 | 68 |
| 5 | 7 | Sergey Terentyev | Russia | 1,465,000 | 18 |
| 5 | 8 | Vyacheslav Ivanov | Russia | 8,765,000 | 110 |
| 5 | 9 | Konstantinos Nanos | Greece | 2,550,000 | 32 |
| 6 | 1 | Andrey Pateychuk | Russia | 7,465,000 | 93 |
| 6 | 2 | Vladimir Troyanovskiy | Russia | 6,480,000 | 81 |
| 6 | 3 | Artur Simonyan | Russia | 760,000 | 10 |
| 6 | 4 | Igor Abelmasov | Russia | 6,860,000 | 86 |
| 6 | 5 | Andriena Nutt | United Kingdom | 3,802,000 | 48 |
| 6 | 6 | Konstantin Generalov | Russia | 2,600,000 | 33 |
| 6 | 7 | Anatoliy Filonenko | Ukraine | 3,660,000 | 46 |
| 6 | 8 | Dmitry Chop | Ukraine | 5,000,000 | 63 |
| 6 | 9 | Dzmitry Urbanovich | Poland | 2,410,000 | 30 |
| 7 | 1 | Oleksandr Rozumovskiy | Ukraine | 1,380,000 | 17 |
| 7 | 2 | Arsen Karmanukyan | Russia | 2,115,000 | 26 |
| 7 | 3 | Lyudmila Rudova | Russia | 2,035,000 | 25 |
| 7 | 4 | Kelly Ince | United Kingdom | 1,400,000 | 18 |
| 7 | 5 | Anvar Muratov | Russia | 1,020,000 | 13 |
| 7 | 6 | Petr Gabyshev | Russia | 1,500,000 | 19 |
| 7 | 7 | Rafal Gontarczyk | Poland | 3,140,000 | 39 |
| 7 | 8 | Markus Ross | Germany | 1,850,000 | 23 |
| 7 | 9 | Tarkan Karadas | Austria | 2,010,000 | 25 |
| 8 | 1 | Sergey Belous | Belarus | 4,400,000 | 55 |
| 8 | 2 | Nikolay Prokhorskiy | Russia | 6,115,000 | 76 |
| 8 | 3 | Roman Korniyenko | Russia | 2,650,000 | 33 |
| 8 | 4 | Yakov Mushailov | Russia | 1,850,000 | 23 |
| 8 | 5 | Vahe Martirosyan | Armenia | 3,430,000 | 43 |
| 8 | 6 | Shyngis Satubayev | Kazakhstan | 2,325,000 | 29 |
| 8 | 7 | Matt Eardley | United Kingdom | 4,900,000 | 61 |
| 8 | 8 | Vitaliy Avanesyan | Russia | 1,100,000 | 14 |
| 8 | 9 | Aleksey Militsa | Russia | 1,810,000 | 23 |
| 9 | 1 | David Laka | Spain | 2,960,000 | 37 |
| 9 | 2 | Denis Timofeyev | Russia | 6,445,000 | 81 |
| 9 | 3 | Dmitriy Makarov | Russia | 4,125,000 | 52 |
| 9 | 4 | Sergey Verkhoturov | Belarus | 11,050,000 | 138 |
| 9 | 5 | Thomer Pidun | Germany | 4,425,000 | 55 |
| 9 | 6 | Dmitriy Grishin | Russia | 1,590,000 | 20 |
| 9 | 7 | Aliaksandr Maistrenka | Belarus | 5,935,000 | 74 |
| 9 | 8 | Johnny Lodden | Norway | 6,900,000 | 86 |
| 9 | 9 | Karen Karamanov | Russia | 4,485,000 | 56 |
| 10 | 1 | Georgiy Bandura | Russia | 2,125,000 | 27 |
| 10 | 2 | Jussi Siikaaho | Finland | 3,370,000 | 42 |
| 10 | 3 | Oleg Manylov | Russia | 2,915,000 | 36 |
| 10 | 4 | Aleksandr Gofman | Russia | 5,960,000 | 75 |
| 10 | 5 | Jeff Lisandro | Australia | 5,335,000 | 67 |
| 10 | 6 | Vladimir Geshkenbein | Russia | 6,500,000 | 81 |
| 10 | 7 | Michael Sklenicka | Czech Republic | 8,315,000 | 104 |
| 10 | 8 | Petre Ionescu | Romania | 3,550,000 | 44 |
| 10 | 9 | Alexey Tsessarskiy | Russia | 6,785,000 | 85 |
| 11 | 1 | David Arutyunyan | Russia | 4,080,000 | 51 |
| 11 | 2 | Anatoliy Shershnev | Russia | 1,620,000 | 20 |
| 11 | 3 | Andrey Andreev | Russia | 8,525,000 | 107 |
| 11 | 4 | Aleksei Istomin | Russia | 8,390,000 | 105 |
| 11 | 5 | Anton Yakuba | Russia | 7,210,000 | 90 |
| 11 | 6 | Bertrand Grospellier | France | 4,130,000 | 52 |
| 11 | 7 | Pavel Kovalenko | Russia | 4,440,000 | 56 |
| 11 | 8 | Ilya Gorodetskiy | Russia | 1,635,000 | 20 |
| 11 | 9 | Andrey Tkachenko | Russia | 3,545,000 | 44 |
| 12 | 1 | Andrey Berinov | Russia | 5,350,000 | 67 |
| 12 | 2 | Artem Beryland | Ukraine | 3,745,000 | 47 |
| 12 | 3 | Vitaly Volov | Russia | 2,255,000 | 28 |
| 12 | 4 | Daria Feshchenko | Russia | 2,210,000 | 28 |
| 12 | 5 | Yunus Tuguz | Russia | 2,700,000 | 34 |
| 12 | 6 | Yury Masliankou | Belarus | 10,905,000 | 136 |
| 12 | 7 | Aleksey Gorodnichev | Russia | 1,050,000 | 13 |
| 12 | 8 | Jeff Hakim | Lebanon | 1,850,000 | 23 |
| 12 | 9 | Gary Banks | United Kingdom | 10,450,000 | 131 |
| 13 | 1 | Ivan Borisov | Russia | 1,315,000 | 16 |
| 13 | 2 | Andrey Chusovitin | Russia | 4,685,000 | 59 |
| 13 | 3 | Mikhail Medvedev | Russia | 2,125,000 | 27 |
| 13 | 4 | Eduards Kudrjavcevs | Latvia | 5,625,000 | 70 |
| 13 | 5 | Zamir Adzhiyev | Russia | 1,000,000 | 13 |
| 13 | 6 | Vadim Lipovka | Belarus | 3,245,000 | 41 |
| 13 | 7 | Aleksey Zakharov | Russia | 2,000,000 | 25 |
| 13 | 8 | Igor Sharaskin | Russia | 4,285,000 | 54 |
| 13 | 9 | Peter Smyth | United Kingdom | 4,430,000 | 55 |
| 14 | 1 | Sergey Leonichev | Ukraine | 1,830,000 | 23 |
| 14 | 2 | Ilya Borisov | Russia | 1,370,000 | 17 |
| 14 | 3 | Andrey Razov | Russia | 4,100,000 | 51 |
| 14 | 4 | Yevgeniy Kochetkov | Russia | 2,905,000 | 36 |
| 14 | 5 | Ivan Mischenko | Russia | 1,560,000 | 20 |
| 14 | 6 | Mikhail Surin | Russia | 4,900,000 | 61 |
| 14 | 7 | Ivan Pashutskiy | Russia | 2,580,000 | 32 |
| 14 | 8 | Maksim Tyurin | Russia | 3,100,000 | 39 |
| 14 | 9 | Viktor Podofedenko | Russia | 2,895,000 | 36 |
| 15 | 1 | Vyacheslav Stoyanov | Russia | 3,920,000 | 49 |
| 15 | 2 | Sergey Chantcev | Russia | 6,450,000 | 81 |
| 15 | 3 | Mikhail Galitskiy | Russia | 2,220,000 | 28 |
| 15 | 4 | Arkady Stekolshikov | Russia | 6,695,000 | 84 |
| 15 | 5 | Dmitriy Shalnev | Russia | 1,400,000 | 18 |
| 15 | 6 | Alexandr Razbenkov | Russia | 2,775,000 | 35 |
| 15 | 7 | Philipp Zukernik | Canada | 3,330,000 | 42 |
| 15 | 8 | Paul Jackson | United Kingdom | 3,995,000 | 50 |
| 15 | 9 | Yevgeniy Alikin | Russia | 895,000 | 11 |
| 16 | 1 | Andrey Gulyy | Russia | 1,550,000 | 19 |
| 16 | 2 | Viktor Kudinov | Russia | 355,000 | 4 |
| 16 | 3 | Gurgen Mkhitaryan | Armenia | 6,475,000 | 81 |
| 16 | 4 | Oleg Egorov | Russia | 5,430,000 | 68 |
| 16 | 5 | Sergei Petrushevskii | Russia | 6,605,000 | 83 |
| 16 | 6 | Ivan Shulga | Russia | 4,220,000 | 53 |
| 16 | 7 | Gylbert Drolet | Canada | 3,500,000 | 44 |
| 16 | 8 | Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy | Russia | 8,955,000 | 112 |
| 16 | 9 | Sergey Nikiforov | Russia | 2,330,000 | 29 |
| 17 | 1 | Vyacheslav Goryachev | Russia | 4,040,000 | 51 |
| 17 | 2 | Siarhei Prymachonak | Belarus | 2,780,000 | 35 |
| 17 | 3 | Sergey Tikhonov | Russia | 645,000 | 8 |
| 17 | 4 | Aleksey Davidovich | Belarus | 4,335,000 | 54 |
| 17 | 5 | Igor Devkin | Russia | 3,490,000 | 44 |
| 17 | 6 | Martin Weiemann | Germany | 900,000 | 11 |
| 17 | 7 | Maksim Pitsan | Russia | 3,295,000 | 41 |
| 17 | 8 | Aleksandr Shuvalov | Russia | 3,360,000 | 42 |
| 17 | 9 | Aleksandr Levashov | Russia | 4,725,000 | 59 |
| 18 | 1 | Natalia Panchenko | Russia | 3,470,000 | 43 |
| 18 | 2 | Fedor Algazin | Russia | 7,450,000 | 93 |
| 18 | 3 | Mikhail Pokhlebayev | Russia | 1,820,000 | 23 |
| 18 | 4 | Benjamin Chalot | Hungary | 7,980,000 | 100 |
| 18 | 5 | Maxim Babko | Canada | 8,170,000 | 102 |
| 18 | 6 | Denis Ten | Russia | 2,770,000 | 35 |
| 18 | 7 | Svyatoslav Desimov | Russia | 1,735,000 | 22 |
| 18 | 8 | Petr Bartagov | Russia | 1,240,000 | 16 |
| 18 | 9 | Vadim Volkhonsky | Russia | 4,165,000 | 52 |
| 19 | 1 | Andrey Kozlenko | Russia | 8,265,000 | 103 |
| 19 | 2 | Nursultan Abilkassym | Kazakhstan | 525,000 | 7 |
| 19 | 3 | Zdenek Mach | Czech Republic | 2,970,000 | 4 |
| 19 | 4 | Denis Krasavin | Russia | 7,015,000 | 88 |
| 19 | 5 | Aleksandr Terentiev | Russia | 2,170,000 | 27 |
| 19 | 6 | Andrey Demidov | Russia | 3,165,000 | 40 |
| 19 | 7 | Aleksandr Plyatsok | Russia | 2,090,000 | 26 |
| 19 | 8 | Kenny Hallaert | Belgium | 4,520,000 | 57 |
| 19 | 9 | Oleg Zhdan | Russia | 4,225,000 | 53 |
| 20 | 1 | Andrey Novak | Russia | 2,850,000 | 36 |
| 20 | 2 | Alexander Zubov | Russia | 2,710,000 | 34 |
| 20 | 3 | Aleksandr Girs | Belarus | 2,445,000 | 31 |
| 20 | 5 | Aleksey Opalikhin | Russia | 1,760,000 | 22 |
| 20 | 6 | Steve O'Dwyer | Ireland | 5,690,000 | 71 |
| 20 | 7 | Siamion Ahrafenin | Belarus | 8,125,000 | 102 |
| 20 | 8 | Anatoliy Zuyev | Russia | 2,635,000 | 33 |
| 20 | 9 | Vadim Bulgakov | Russia | 1,615,000 | 20 |
| 21 | 1 | Sergey Lomakin | Russia | 4,000,000 | 50 |
| 21 | 2 | Timur Khamidullin | Russia | 6,435,000 | 80 |
| 21 | 3 | Sergey Kislinskiy | Russia | 4,555,000 | 57 |
| 21 | 4 | Pavel Ignatov | Russia | 1,160,000 | 15 |
| 21 | 5 | Christian Nolte | Germany | 2,735,000 | 34 |
| 21 | 6 | Badra Bazba | Russia | 6,310,000 | 79 |
| 21 | 7 | Pavel Fedchan | Russia | 3,055,000 | 38 |
| 21 | 9 | Maxim Lykov | Russia | 1,950,000 | 24 |
| 22 | 1 | Anatoly Filatov | Russia | 3,500,000 | 44 |
| 22 | 2 | Karen Arutyunyan | Russia | 4,550,000 | 57 |
| 22 | 4 | Leonid Sidelkovskiy | Russia | 1,025,000 | 13 |
| 22 | 5 | Aleksey Makarov | Russia | 1,270,000 | 16 |
| 22 | 6 | Dmitriy Poberzhnyy | Russia | 1,765,000 | 22 |
| 22 | 7 | Manig Loeser | Germany | 4,350,000 | 54 |
| 22 | 8 | Sofya Merkulova | Russia | 2,875,000 | 36 |
| 22 | 9 | Liliya Novikova | Russia | 806,000 | 10 |
| 23 | 1 | Sylvia Hewitt | United Kingdom | 3,125,000 | 39 |
| 23 | 2 | Artem Babakhanyan | Russia | 3,040,000 | 38 |
| 23 | 3 | Ivan Arbatsky | Russia | 8,950,000 | 112 |
| 23 | 4 | Aleksei Kozlov | Russia | 4,875,000 | 61 |
| 23 | 5 | Oleg Pavlyuchuk | Russia | 2,160,000 | 27 |
| 23 | 7 | Nikolay Adabekyan | Russia | 5,610,000 | 70 |
| 23 | 8 | Nikolay Kulemalin | Russia | 3,800,000 | 48 |
| 23 | 9 | Dmitriy Kopyl | Russia | 255,000 | 3 |
| 24 | 1 | Anton Petrov | Russia | 430,000 | 5 |
| 24 | 2 | Aleksey Karev | Russia | 2,465,000 | 31 |
| 24 | 3 | Aleksandr Chernikov | Russia | 4,615,000 | 58 |
| 24 | 4 | Petr Machacek | Czech Republic | 4,625,000 | 58 |
| 24 | 6 | Igor Kasyanov | Russia | 4,570,000 | 57 |
| 24 | 7 | Gleb Tremzin | Russia | 4,500,000 | 56 |
| 24 | 8 | Natalya Yakovleva | Russia | 1,670,000 | 21 |
| 24 | 9 | Anatoliy Zyrin | Russia | 6,270,000 | 78 |
| 25 | 1 | Kirill KruglovI | Russia | 2,820,000 | 35 |
| 25 | 2 | Sergey Tsoy | Uzbekistan | 3,760,000 | 47 |
| 25 | 4 | Andrey Verbovskiy | Russia | 2,150,000 | 27 |
| 25 | 5 | Moritz Dietrich | Austria | 3,500,000 | 44 |
| 25 | 6 | Pavel Frolov | Russia | 5,760,000 | 72 |
| 25 | 7 | Alexander Matveev | Russia | 1,680,000 | 21 |
| 25 | 8 | Oleg Chebotarev | Russia | 3,120,000 | 39 |
| 25 | 9 | Anton Zaytsev | Russia | 3,050,000 | 38 |
| 26 | 1 | Lev Mnatsakanyan | Russia | 4,400,000 | 55 |
| 26 | 2 | Konstantin Puchkov | Russia | 8,635,000 | 108 |
| 26 | 3 | Ekaterina Kolobekova | Russia | 2,460,000 | 31 |
| 26 | 4 | Boris Kotleba | Slovakia | 3,220,000 | 40 |
| 26 | 5 | Alimbay Sultanov | Kazakhstan | 8,100,000 | 101 |
| 26 | 6 | Sergey Chupodal | Russia | 5,955,000 | 74 |
| 26 | 7 | Dmitriy Selivanov | Russia | 2,135,000 | 27 |
| 26 | 8 | Daniel Clark | United Kingdom | 6,310,000 | 79 |