Vahe Martirosyan and Dmitry Nikitin got into a raising war and the former ended up squeezing to 45,300. Nikitin jammed on top of that and the 45,300 were pulled into the middle. Nikitin was all in for another 56,800 on top and Martirosyan folded.
Vitaliy Beter's all in for 10,600 was followed by the shove of Aleksandr Zhilinskii in the cutoff and Sergey Isaev on the button.
Sergey Isaev:
Aleksandr Zhilinskii:
Vitaliy Beter:
The last three casualties in the theater were Andreas Walter, Vasilii Polukarov and Vladimir Kartachaov. Lavrentiy Ni, who started the day as second in chips, had plummeted all the way to just 33,100. Alexander Kostritsyn limped in and Sergey Isaev did so as well before Ni shoved. Kostritsyn folded and Isaev eventually called.
Lavrentiy Ni:
Sergey Isaev:
The board came and Ni doubled.
Sergey Lomakin also doubled, his held up against the of Mark Simankov.
Natalia Panchenko three-bet shoved for her last 32,000 with the and Vahe Martirosyan quickly called with the . The board came and Panchenko was done for the day.
One table over, Arman Atshemyan opened and called the shove of Konstantin Puchkov for 13,600 with . Puchkov was miles ahead with , but the board came to give Atshemyan two pair.
Maxim Panyak was in the big blind and bet 6,600 on the turn of a board reading .
His opponent in the pot, Maksim Pisarenko, called.
The river was the and Panyak bet again, but this time he just bet 3,300.
Pisarenko looked a bit stunned at first and over the next minute or so he became increasingly tortured as to whether or not he should call. It was a tiny bet compared to the pot and was not a hugely significant pot in relation to his stack, nevertheless it seemed that Panyak had got in his head and was spinning it round.
They chatted back and forth in Russian for a while and at last Pisarenko called the bet.
Panyak tabled and Pisarenko checked the board to make sure he wasn’t missing something before showing the winning .
Almost midway through Day 2 here at the PokerStars Championship Sochi and tournament organisers have confirmed the prizepool and payouts.
From the starting field of 387, there will be 55 players going home in the money, with a min-cash worth RUB 735,000 (€11,602 / $12,983).
For any player lucky enough to make the final table of nine, they will be walking home with RUB 2,865,000 (€45,234 / $50,608).
And for the latest PokerStars Championship Main Event Champion here in Russia, they will walk away with the trophy, the glory and RUB 29,100,000 (€459,364 / $514,026) in prize money along with the trophy.
Vsevolod Nikolaev sent his stack over to Dmitry Chop and Aleksandr Zhilinskii three-bet shoved into Alexander Kostritsyn to get snap-called by his fellow Russian with . Zhilinkskii only had and caught no help on a board of .
Zhilinskii then doubled up his short stack with AsJh] against the of Konstantin Puchkov as the appeared on the flop, sending Puchkov into the danger zone.
Mikhail Galitski has seen a big boost to his chip count so far on Day 2. The Russian player has more than doubled his start-of-day stack and continues to add to it.
In a recent pot, Galitski called a preflop open of 3,500 in the big blind and after checking down a board of , Galitski led the river with a bet of 14,000 and took down the pot uncontested.
[Removed:19] opened to 3,500 from middle position. Both Jonas Lauck and Oleg Sklyanov called in middle position before Bertrand Grospellier three-bet to 14,000 from the button. Sokolovskiy folded but the other two players both called.
The flop was and Lauck checked to Sokolovskiy who moved all in for 33,600. Grospellier quickly called and Lauck got out of the way.
Sokolovskiy took one look at the of his opponent and slammed his down on the table in disgust.
The turn was the and the river the giving ElkY a full house and eliminating his opponent.
"Unlucky," said the Frenchman, "I'm on an insane run today."
"He called the Isle of Man this morning and asked them to push the 'God Mode' button," remarked a tablemate.
Tsogtjargal Yadamjav faced a raise to 4,600 by Roman Kundasov and shoved for less than 9,000 with the . Kundasov called with and the board ran out .
Soon after, Rustam Kuliev first got a lucky chop with versus as the board provided a straight from ace to five. Then he shoved for 25,100 with and Chris Moneymaker called with . The board came and that was it for Kuliev.
and that was it for Beter.
and Ni doubled.
held up against the 
of Mark Simankov.
to give Atshemyan two pair.
and Pisarenko checked the board to make sure he wasn’t missing something before showing the winning 
.
and the board ran out 
