2017 PokerStars Championship Sochi

Main Event
Day: 1b
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Event Info

2017 PokerStars Championship Sochi

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a♥6♥
Prize
21,900,000 RUB
Event Info
Buy-in
318,000 RUB
Prize Pool
150,000,000 RUB
Entries
387
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

Jason Wheeler Claims the Lead After Day 1b of the PokerStars Championship Sochi Main Event

Christian Zetzsche
Christian Zetzsche
Level 8 : 400/800, 100 ante
Jason Wheeler is the chip leader after Day 1b in Sochi
Jason Wheeler is the chip leader after Day 1b in Sochi

Day 1b of the 2017 PokerStars Championship Sochi RUB 150,000,000 guaranteed Main Event saw another 247 players fork out the buy-in of RUB 318,000 (approx. $5,590) and join the action at the Sochi Casino and Resort, Krasnaya Polyana. Along with the 132 entries of yesterday's first starting day, this makes for a field size of 379 entries, however, this number may still increase as the late registration remains open until the cards are back in the air for Day 2 at 12 p.m. local time.

After eight levels of 75 minutes each, it was American poker pro Jason ��jdpc27�� Wheeler who used his starting stack of 30,000 and ran it all the way up to 180,800. Wheeler already reached the final table of a Side Event here in Sochi and finished 8th in the RUB 132,000 National High Roller for RUB 452,000 yesterday. Originally from Chicago, Wheeler now calls Amsterdam his home and frequently travels the international circuit while having amassed more than $3.1M in live tournaments and close to $8M in online cashes to date.

Other big stacks and notables that made it through to Day 2 include Lavrentiy Ni (174,800), Sergey Isaev (158,300), Seyed Ghavam (149,400), and Mikhail Galitski (125,000). Well-known Russian tournament grinders Vladimir Troyanovskiy (116,500) and Alexander Lakhov (103,400) ended the day with more than double the average, while early big stack and National High Roller champion Maxim Panyak had to settle for (72,700). EPT13 Malta champion Aliaksei Boika (77,800), Nacho Barbero (71,600), Jonas Lauck (65,100) and Pedro Lamarca (57,700) are further familiar faces of the international poker circuit that advanced to Day 2.

Three players represented the red spade at the Sochi Casino and Resort today: Team Online's Mikhail Shalamov ran short with pocket eights into nines and PokerStars Team pro Aditya Agarwal first bluffed off half of his stack against Alexander Lakhov before ending up second-best to Lakhov with kings versus jacks after a jack appeared on the turn. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier entered the tournament mid-way through the day and scored a late double to advance with 43,200, he will be joining Chris Moneymaker for Day 2 tomorrow.

Other big names that failed to bag up for the night included former EPT Prague champion Martin Finger, 2011 WPT Vienna winner Dmitry Gromov, Andrey Andreev, Yury Gulyy, Andrey Zaichenko, Denis Pisarev, Alex Kravchenko, Sergei Chantcev, Konstantin Maslak, Harry Lodge and Shyngis Satubayev.

Wheeler entered the tournament several levels late and the biggest pot of the American saw him turn trips nines with jack-nine suited to bust an opponent with pocket aces. The big stack of Ni was also the result of an aces cracked story when he called the big river shove of Galitski with king-jack suited for the second nut flush on a paired board. Galitski's relentless aggression after that saw the Russian climb back up and secure more than four times the starting stack for Day 2.

As it stands, just over 200 hopefuls out of a 379-entry strong field will return for Day 2. So far, the Main Event has an overlay of RUB 36,300,000 (approx. USD 642,000) and all players that wish to join before the first card is dealt on Saturday will receive 30,000 in chips at blinds of 500/1,000 with a running ante of 100. Day 2 will play a total of six levels of 75 minutes and it remains to be seen whether the money will be reached or not. The 2017 PokerStars Championship Sochi is the first major festival along with PokerStars Festival Chile where a PokerStars sponsored tour will revert back to the 15% payout structure for its major tournaments.

The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor to provide all the action until a winner is crowned on May 31st before the action continues right away at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

Main Event Day 2 Seat Draw

TableSeatPlayerCountryChip Count
11Alexander ZholnerchikBelarus14,200
13[Removed:19]Russian Federation69,200
14Mikalai VaskaboinikauBelarus84,700
15Daniil GoldshteynRussian Federation43,800
16Bertrand GrospellierFrance43,200
17Alexander NekrasovRussian Federation92,600
18Daniil KiselevRussian Federation89,000
     
21Ruslan YakimovUkraine73,000
22Maxim MamonovRussian Federation49,800
23Mikhail KorotkikhRussian Federation20,000
24Ruslan VoitovichRussian Federation49,400
26Seyed GhavamIran149,400
27Denis GashkoRussian Federation6,100
28Maksim BuraRussian Federation45,700
     
31Dmitry ChopRussian Federation76,000
32Vsevolod NikolaevRussian Federation20,800
34Ezatulla AmaniRussian Federation75,000
35Alimbay SultanovUzbekistan28,700
36Vitaly KarayanRussian Federation19,700
37Artem NosachUkraine19,600
38Mikhail ManukyanRussian Federation26,200
     
41Vadim KimKazakhstan19,900
42Tsogtjargal YadamjavMongolia16,200
43Rustam KulievRussian Federation11,500
44Vladimir ShabalinRussian Federation35,500
45Yury ZinkevichBelarus76,800
46Chris MoneymakerUSA115,200
47Andrey SakolishchRussian Federation19,200
     
51Sergey IsaevRussian Federation158,300
52Alexandr MinakovRussian Federation15,500
54Konstantin RamazanovRussian Federation36,700
55Evgeniq AlikinRussian Federation48,600
56Konstantin PuchkovRussian Federation19,800
57Alexander KostritsynRussian Federation49,100
58Aleksandr ZhilinskiiRussian Federation27,300
     
61Mark SimankovRussian Federation69,200
62Sergey LomakinRussian Federation59,000
63Vasilii PolukarovRussian Federation41,100
64Vahe MartirosyanArmenia7,900
65Hazret NebejevRussian Federation89,500
67Natalia PanchenkoRussian Federation51,100
68Alexey NikolenkoRussian Federation35,500
     
72Artur IbragimovRussian Federation60,500
73Aleksei DanilovRussian Federation25,000
74Andrei KaigorodtsevRussian Federation40,400
75Konstantin KostyakovRussian Federation44,500
76Sertan CitinogluUK59,400
77Sergey TreninRussian Federation51,300
78Artem SavchenkoRussian Federation49,600
     
81Evgeny NekrasovRussian Federation18,200
82Michal MajewskiPoland93,300
83Igor SharaskinRussian Federation27,000
84Denis DavydovRussian Federation27,400
85Anton ShamrayevskyRussian Federation95,100
86Vladimir LubyanovRussian Federation14,500
87Siarhei BuracheuskiBelarus75,300
     
91Vladimir MedvedevRussian Federation78,200
92Boris YanpolskiyRussian Federation45,200
94Dzmitry RabotkinBelarus42,400
95Mikhail SoltanovRussian Federation104,000
96Gaby LivshitzIsrael56,600
97Andrey IvlevRussian Federation31,500
98Vladimir DemenkovRussian Federation36,200
     
101Denis PavlenkoUzbekistan21,500
102Timur BubnovRussian Federation102,500
103Dmitry YurasovRussian Federation67,800
104Alexey ChukhninRussian Federation69,600
106Stanislav VlasovRussian Federation58,900
107Konstantin KazaevRussian Federation40,500
108Vadim KuvshinkovRussian Federation26,900
     
111Laurynas LevinskasLithuania32,600
112Dmitry ManashovRussian Federation65,800
113Maxim PanyakRussian Federation72,700
114Donatas PilinkusLithuania108,900
115Alexey VlasovRussian Federation67,000
116Artem VezhenkovRussian Federation70,100
117Robert AskarovRussian Federation21,000
118Igor DimitrijevicSerbia57,900
     
122Dmitrii FilimonovRussian Federation58,900
123Ramil BoyazitovRussian Federation87,700
124Danila SolovyevRussian Federation63,200
125Andrei ChernokozRussian Federation49,500
126Alexey BilyuchenkoRussian Federation30,500
127Andrey ShatilovRussian Federation8,500
128Mikhail GalitskiRussian Federation125,000
     
131Suleyman SuleymanovRussian Federation56,900
132Sinopiants ArkadiiRussian Federation42,700
133Viktor SorokinRussian Federation50,500
134Nadar KakhmazovRussian Federation120,000
136Andrey MorgunRussian Federation54,800
137Vladimir VolovRussian Federation48,800
138Denis ChiginevRussian Federation59,800
     
142Olga FinogenovaRussian Federation69,500
143Vasily AndrienkoRussian Federation91,900
144Timur KhamidullinRussian Federation23,600
145Ricardo TavaresBrazil20,500
146Alexey MakarovRussian Federation31,000
147Ivan ArbatskiiRussian Federation38,500
148Vladimir DobrovolskiyRussian Federation50,400
     
151Yurii ZdanovskyiUkraine59,100
153Andy TylerUK38,600
154Dmitriy MotorovRussian Federation51,100
155Pedro LamarcaSpain57,700
156Osman YelRussian Federation61,400
157Yeow Chung ChongSingapore82,100
158Aleksei DedovRussian Federation20,400
     
161Ivan KozyrevRussian Federation22,900
162Sergey ChernegaRussian Federation19,700
163Vitaliy LiRussian Federation89,600
164Jason WheelerUSA180,800
165Sergey IsupovRussian Federation84,700
166Hugo Dos Santos VideiraPortugal61,200
168Van Thach VuRussian Federation92,800
     
171Alexander LakhovRussian Federation103,400
172Egor GerasimchukRussian Federation64,000
173Mikhail MedvedevRussian Federation14,800
174Vitaliy BeterRussian Federation31,300
175Ivan NeiaskinRussian Federation63,000
176Ekaterina KaminskaiaRussian Federation14,300
177Maksim NosenkoRussian Federation61,200
178Konstantin RysevRussian Federation70,200
     
181Pavel KovalenkoRussian Federation85,000
182Dmitry VitkindRussian Federation67,000
184Nacho BarberoArgentina71,600
185Pavel IgnatovRussian Federation45,600
186Lavrentiy NiKazakhstan174,800
187Arash KhosraviIran41,400
188Yury FilimonovRussian Federation51,000
     
191Sergey FeklisovRussian Federation69,600
193Nikita BochkinRussian Federation37,300
194Maksim ReshetovRussian Federation44,000
195Maxim LykovRussian Federation78,700
196Yulius SepmanRussian Federation47,800
197Aliaksei BoikaBelarus77,800
198Ivan GlushkovRussian Federation23,900
     
201Roman SeleznevRussian Federation35,400
202Anton PozdniakovRussian Federation43,800
203Andrei ShkerinRussian Federation144,400
204Jonas LauckGermany65,100
205Said ButbaRussian Federation96,800
207Dmitry GrishinRussian Federation12,400
208Alexey FedinRussian Federation24,900
     
211Aram VartevanyanRussian Federation87,900
212Andrey GolubevKazakhstan65,100
214Igor ArekinRussian Federation31,500
215Ulrich JungenSwitzerland89,300
216Natan ChauskinBelarus66,200
217Matheus Rodrigues DuarteBrazil32,800
218Oleg LipkinRussian Federation35,800
     
222Oleg ChebotarevRussian Federation73,000
223Daniyar AubakirovKazakhstan133,500
224Vladimar ShashkovRussian Federation72,000
225Vladislav TonkikhRussian Federation69,000
226Ilya SumzinRussian Federation15,300
227Sergei PetrushevskiiRussian Federation69,500
228Aleksei SavenkovRussian Federation26,000
     
231Pavel ShirshikovRussian Federation44,600
232Abraham PassetGermany50,200
233Arman AtshemyanArmenia105,500
234Viktor ShenerRussian Federation68,100
235Vadim BotosanRussian Federation31,700
236Maksim PisarenkoRussian Federation87,500
237Ramin HajiyevAzerbaijan49,200
238Iurii SimonovRussian Federation54,900
     
241Igor YaroshevskyyUkraine23,800
242Andrey GulyyRussian Federation36,500
243Alexey SorochinskiyRussian Federation1,000
245Konstantin BugaevRussian Federation35,800
246Aleksandr DenisovRussian Federation77,000
247Vladimir KartachovRussian Federation48,400
248Evgeny PlatonovRussian Federation41,600
     
251Nikolay ProkhorskiyRussian Federation60,900
253Oleg SklyanovRussian Federation30,600
254Sergei KanUzbekistan111,500
255Vyacheslav BondartsevKazakhstan21,000
256Nikolay FalRussian Federation26,100
257Sergey BaburinRussian Federation26,300
258Kostiantyn TupaloUkraine43,900
261Dmitrii MakarovRussian Federation48,200
262Artsiom ZhadinskyBelarus115,600
263Gevorg VazgenovichUkraine43,600
265Alexandr PotievskiyRussian Federation39,900
266Roman KundasovRussian Federation23,900
267Benjamin LamprechtAustria26,300
268Yuriy ZabolotniyRussian Federation62,600
     
271Roman TutoyanRussian Federation37,600
272Andreas WalterGermany46,700
273Dmitrii MerzlikinRussian Federation25,200
274Grigorii RodinRussian Federation16,200
275Jorg BohmeGermany81,800
276Mikhail MolchanovRussian Federation36,400
278Jorge CantosArgentina22,900
     
281Alexandr PrysevRussian Federation38,000
282Mikhail RudoyRussian Federation141,100
283Ihar SoikaBelarus30,400
284Alexander KovalevRussian Federation48,100
285Yerlan AisinKazakhstan39,500
286Dmitriy ShutenkoRussian Federation19,500
287Sergei HohlovRussian Federation24,800
288Fiodar SkrundaBelarus7,300
     
291Dmitry NikitinRussian Federation103,000
292Vladimir TroyanovskiyRussian Federation116,500
293Junya YamadaJapan36,900
294Alexander LukyanovRussian Federation52,800
295Konstantin ToloknoRussian Federation58,700
296Yehor FilipenkoUkraine87,000
297Dmitrii GrinenkoRussian Federation32,700
298Sarkis KarabadzhakyanRussian Federation59,400

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