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Russia’s Arseniy Karmatskiy is heading a pack of seven finalists into the final day of the EPT Sochi Main Event. The player built a massive stack Wednesday at the host venue Sochi Casino and Resort to secure a comfortable stack into the tournament’s final table.
Day 5 play started with 16 hopefuls from the previous day. The remaining survivors were supposed to play down to the final six. It was an action-packed day at Sochi Casino, though, with small stacks refusing to bust and big stacks squaring off for dominance.
Eventually, organizers stopped play at the end of Level 28 with seven players still at the final table. The final 7 are set to return at the host casino at 12:30 pm local time to play down to a champion. They will be contending for the first-place prize of ₽27.3 million and first Main Event title of EPT’s new era.
The EPT Sochi Main Event is the first one to be held within Europe’s most popular live poker series since December 2016. PokerStars luckily brought out from untimely retirement what could easily be called its most popular live poker brand to the joy of many a player.
The Sochi tournament drew entries from all over the world. Its field eventually counted 861 competitors who generated a prize pool of ₽150,692,220. The top 127 places are getting paid. Each of the seven remaining players is a guaranteed a minimum cash of ₽3,648,180 from the tournament, but they are all vying for the first-place prize of ₽27.3 million.
Big Advantage
As mentioned above, local player Arseniy Karmatskiy is leading the seven survivors into the final day of action at Sochi Casino. The player has massive advantage over the rest of the remaining contenders.
He bagged and tagged 7.83 million in chips last night. Karmatskiy entered Day 5 of the event middle-stacked but quickly began building a stack to eventually emerge the chip leader. The early elimination of Mikhail Zavoloka in 14th place boosted significantly his chip stack. Then Karmatskiy eliminated another player and secured a seat at the unofficial final table as a chip leader. The player never looked back from that point on and never lost hold over his stack until the end of the day. It is yet to be seen whether Karmatskiy will be able to seal his first-ever EPT title. However, the player certainly has a good shot.
Viktor Shegai bagged the second largest stack last night. However, he is well behind Karmatskiy with 4.755 million in chips. Armenia’s Vahe Martirosyan rounded out the chip counts podium last night with 3.11 million. The player finished 45th in last year’s PokerStars Championship Sochi Main Event for ₽735,000 in prize money.
Final day play starts today at 12:30 pm at the host casino and will only stop when the EPT Sochi Main Event victor is crowned.
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