Eibinger Doubles Immediately
Straight off the bat, Matthias Eibinger has raised himself from the pack of c. 500,000 stacks with a double courtesy of Artur Martirosyan, who opened to 60,000, then re-shipped for 750,000 when Eibinger three-bet preflop to 360,000 (committing his full 435,000). Call.
Eibinger: [9c9h]
Martirosyan: [AsQs]
Martirosyan performed what the comms team called the “pre-pay” – counting out the double’s worth of chips on the turn, the board reading [7d5s3h7c], and the [Tc] river didn’t disappoint (Eibinger).
| Player | Chips | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Matthias Eibinger | 1,000,000 |
565,000  |
| Artur Martirosyan | 280,000 |
-425,000  |
Seng Yee Leow Leads Final Nine, including Ivey, Trickett and Adams in Event #2: $25,000 No Limit Hold’em
After the Short Deck intro to the 2020 Russian partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Super High Roller Series (won by Jiang Xia He for $378,000 yesterday), players in Casino Sochi are ready for their first “regular deck” $25,000 final table, in which over $1.4 million will be awarded today to one of these nine competitors:
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
| 1 | Chin Wei Lim | Malaysia | 295,000 | 10 |
| 2 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 480,000 | 16 |
| 3 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 750,000 | 25 |
| 4 | Seng Yee | Malaysia | 2,830,000 | 94 |
| 5 | Paul Phua | Malaysia | 405,000 | 14 |
| 6 | Phil Ivey | United States | 475,000 | 16 |
| 7 | Sam Trickett | England | 1,250,000 | 42 |
| 8 | Artur Martirosyan | Russia | 705,000 | 24 |
| 9 | Matthias Eibinger | Austria | 435,000 | 15 |
Yee holds a solid lead over the other eight remaining players (all in the money, a share in the $1.4 million prize pool worth at least $43,500 locked up) with over twice the chips of his nearest rival, ultra-late registrant Sam Trickett. Four players return with a stack of just under half a million chips: Timothy Adams, Paul Phua, Matthias Eibinger and Phil Ivey (16 or fewer big blinds); expect action from the start on both the livestream on PokerGO and here from 8am EDT/3pm local time..
Prizes to be awarded on the “unofficial” final table:
| Place | Prize |
| 1 | $435,000 |
| 2 | $290,000 |
| 3 | $203,000 |
| 4 | $145,000 |
| 5 | $116,000 |
| 6 | $87,000 |
| 7 | $72,500 |
| 8 | $58,000 |
| 9 | $43,500 |
It is no surprise that the Sochi Super High Roller Series has brought out the big guns in globe-trotting tournament poker; a full week of events starting at the $25,000 level will see the game’s elite battle for trophies (and associated payouts) here amongst the majestically snowy mountains. Stay tuned for live reporting (in time with the livestream’s cards-up delay) starting in one hour from now.
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