Arman Nugmanov was added to the list when his aces were cracked by ace-king soon afteer when four spades gave Vershinin the nut flush. Among his victims were Sergey Kudryavtsev, Eduard Barsegyan, Alexsey Gatsko, and Dmitrii Sukhorukov to vault Vershenin to more than four times the average stack. What followed was a rush of eliminations and especially Pavel Vershinin went on a heater to send several opponents to the rail in order to become the dominating chip leader. Vitaliy Avanesyan and Artem Metelskiy Chop on the Bubble

With 81 players remaining, Vitaliy Avanesyan and Artem Metelskiy were eliminated on separate tables and chopped the min-cash to secure a return on their investment.

It still took almost 90 minutes to determine the bubble boy and former WPT champion Dmitry Gromov was among those to miss out on a payday. Only 87 players remained at the start of Day 3 and the money bubble was in sight. With upcoming blinds of 25,000-50,000 and a big blind ante of 50,000, it is still everybody's game and the bottom stacks have at least 26 big blinds worth when the action is set to resume on Thursday, August 15th, 2019 at 12 p.m. Lavrov (Ukraine) and Tamasyan (Armenia) are the only two non-Russian players that can avoid a home victory in the first-ever 888poker LIVE event on Russian soil. Third in chips is Aleksandr Chernikov with 3,000,000, while Garik Tamasyan has 2,900,000 at his disposal. Both ended the night on a high after sending Roman Gadzhiev and Nikolay Evdokimov to the rail. Best-positioned to lift the trophy on the final day is Konstantin Lichagin (3,515,000), however, Maksym Lavrov follows close behind with 3,430,000. They are all vying for the trophy and top prize of 5,745,250 RUB (~$88,388), and an additional $12,500 package for the 2020 WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas will be awarded to the eventual champion courtesy of WSOP sponsor and event host 888poker. After eight levels of 60 minutes each on the penultimate day of the 20019 888poker LIVE Sochi Main Event, the bubble of the 62,160 RUB (~ $888) buy-in at Casino Sochi in cooperation with Poker Club Management has burst and 12 players out of a field of 569 entries remain in contention for the lion's share of the guaranteed prize pool of 35,000,000 RUB (~$500,000).

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