Hand #19: Dmitry Vitkind opened from early position to 30,000 with and Vladimir Troyanovskiy defended his big blind with . The flop came and Troyanovskiy check-folded to a bet of 85,000.
Hand #20: Vitkind raised from under the gun to 70,000 with . Seyed Ghavam defended his button with . Pavel Shirshikov defended his big blind with . The flop was and Shirshikov checked to Vitkind who continued for 80,000. Both his opponents folded.
Hand #21: Shirshikov woke up with in the small blind and raised to 90,000. Vitkind defended with . The flop was and both players checked. The turn was the . Shirshikov bet 140,000 and Vitkind folded.
Hand #22: Shirshikov opened to 72,000 from the button with and the blinds folded.
Hand #23: Vitkind raised to 70,000 from the button with and the blinds folded.
Hand #14: Vladimir Troyanovskiy limped from the small blind with and Pavel Shirshikov checked his option. Troyanovskiy led on the flop and took down the pot.
Hand #15: Dmitry Vitkind was given a walk.
Hand #16: Shirshikov opened to 75,000 with and Lavrentiy Ni called in the big blind with . The flop came , Shirshikov continued for 65,000 and Ni folded.
Hand #17: Shirshikov opened to 75,000 in the cutoff with and took down the pot.
Hand #18: Vitkind opened to 65,000 from the cutoff seat with , Lavrentiy Ni called on the button with , but when action came to Timur Bubnov in the small blind, the Russian Spin & Go qualifier shoved with for 877,000. Vitkind and Ni release, awarding the pot to Bubnov.
Hand #9: Timur Bubnov opened for 80,000 with and took the antes and blinds.
Hand #10: Seyed Ghavam opened for 62,000 with and Lavrentiy Ni in the big blind with defended. The flop was and Ghavam continued with his flush draw for 62,000. That took the pot.
Hand #11: Ni in the small blind with raised to 67,000. Bubnov defended with from the big blind.
The flop was . Ni continued for 85,000 and Bubnov moved all in. Ni folded.
Hand #12: Ni on the button with made it 63,000. Ghavam in the big blind with called. The flop was and Ghavam check-called a 53,000 continuation bet. The turn was the and Ni continued for 135,000. Ghavam looked at his cards again and called. The river was the and both players checked. Two pair good for Ghavam to get back to 30 big blinds.
Hand #13: Vladimir Troyanovskiy got a walk in the big blind.
Hand #3: Lavrentiy Ni raised to 52,000 from under the gun with the and Dmitry Vitkind called in the big blind with the . The flop came and Vitkind checked. Ni bet 40,000 and that shut down all further action.
Hand #4: Vladimir Troyanovskiy opened to 50,000 with from the cutoff and Pavel Shirshikov on the button three-bet to 165,000 with . Ni looked down at in the big blind and elected to four-bet to 411,000 and Troyanovskiy quickly folded, Shirshikov took longer but came to the same conclusion.
Hand #5: Troyanovskiy found no callers of his raise and claimed the blinds and antes.
Hand #6: Dmitry Vitkind raised to 52,000 with and got no action.
Hand #7: Shirshikov opened the action with a raise to 55,000, holding , and Seyed Ghavam looked down at and called. Troyanovskiy called from the big blind with and the flop fell .
All three players checked and the turn gave Shirshikov a straight. The action checked to him and he bet 120,000 to force a fold from Ghavam, however, Troyanovskiy stuck around to see the river. Troyanovskiy checked and Shirshikov bet 300,000 into a pot of 429,000, which did the trick to claim the pot uncontested.
Hand #8: Ghavam raised to 51,000 with the and Shirshikov defended the in the big blind. The flop came and Shirshikov checked, Ghavam continued for 51,000 in order to pick up a call by Shirshikov.
The appeared on the turn and Shirshikov checked again, and Ghavam checked behind. After the river, Shirshikov bet 85,000 and Ghavam called with just king-high to drop down further.
Hand #2: Dmitry Vitkind opened to 52,000 from under the gun with . Seyed Ghavam three-bet from the button with to 131,000. The blinds both folded and action was back on Vitkind. He had around 40 big blinds behind, around one million in chips, and he called the bet from Ghavam.
The flop came and Vitkind checked to Ghavam who continued for 131,000 again. The pot at this point was 453,000 and Vitkind called.
The turn brought the and Vitkind checked again. Ghavam bet 295,000 and Vitkind moved all in for his last 783,000. Ghavam called.
Vitkind was at risk, and had only a 10% chance of winning the hand. However, the river was one of the four outs he needed, coming the .
Vitkind doubled to just over two million chips, good enough for third in chips, while Ghavam falls to 911,000.
Hand #1: Seyed Ghavam limped from the small blind with and Vladimir Troyanovskiy raised to 60,000 in the big blind holding . Ghavam Called.
The flop came and Ghavam check-called a bet of 80,000 from Troyanovskiy. The turn was the and Ghavam check-folded to a double barrel of 215,000 from Troyanovskiy.