We caught up with the action preflop as the dealer was raking in 3,500 from three players, including Alexey Vlasov. They were issued a flop and action folded around to the player on the button, who bet 3,700. Vlasov called and the fell on the turn.
Both players checked as the completed the board on the river. After a moment, Vlasov stacked his chips and slid the small tower into the middle. His opponent asked for a count, which was about 8,500, and eventually made the call.
Vlasov tabled for a flopped flush and his opponent mucked.
Yevgeniy Bakhvalov got the last of his chips in on the flop reading holding for an open ended straight draw. He was called by Dimitry Motorov holdoing .
The turn was the and the river the and Bakhvalov was on his way.
A player in early position raised to 1,050 and Mark Simankov flat-called on the button. Andrey Andreev was in the small blind and moved all in for 8,650 with the blinds at 200/400 with a 50 ante.
The initial raiser folded and Simankov called.
Simankov:
Andreev:
The Russian, who finished 38th in the partypoker Millions event here in Sochi two months ago was flipping, and watched as the flop came .
Andreev's best cash came in 2015 where he finished 4th in the €25k High Roller at the EPT 11 Grand Final, and the turn gave him extra outs coming the .
However the river was the meaning Simankov boosted his stack, and is now sitting above 50,000.
Five players just walked in with a tournament ticket in the hand and grabbed fresh stacks to enter the competition mid-way through Day 1b. Among them was Andrey Shatilov, who has more than $2.5M in tournament cashes, and the tournament screens show 233 entries for the second starting day.
Jorg Bohme opened the action with a raise to 1,000 and Alimbay Sultanov three-bet to 2,200. Mikalai Vaskaboinikau called before Evgeny Talagaev in the small blind raised to 16,000 with another 10,150 behind. Bohme moved all in and that got Sultanov and Vaskaboinikau out of the way. In table chat, Sultanov mentioned he folded pocket queens.
Jorg Bohme:
Evgeny Talagaev:
The board came and Talagaev was eliminated, while PokerStars qualifier Bohme jumped to twice the average.
A player in the cutoff seat opened to 800 and Andrei Kaigorodtsev called on the button. The player in the big blind three-bet to 3,400 and just Kaigorodtsev called.
The flop came and the player in the big blind continued with a bet of 2,600. Kaigorodtsev took no time bumping it up to 15,000 — almost all his remaining chips — and after a few moments, his opponent found a fold.