It appears that Yi Ye is the first player to reach one million in chips after he just won a flip against Sergei Petrushevskii.
In a battle button versus big blind, Petrushevskii was all in with pocket fours against the 
of Ye. A queen-high flop was followed by the 
turn and that spelled the end for Petrushevskii.
Damir Gabdullin was eliminated prior and Emin Mugulov walked away from one table over just moments later.
On a flop of 
, Roman Novoselov ended up all in for 233,000 with the 
and Vitaliy Pankov was in dire shape as his 
needed running outs.
The 
turn and 
river were insignificant and Pankov was reduced to nine big blinds.
The last eight tables are all but reached as 65 players remain with Tibor Toth, Arutyun Minosyants and Valeryi Romashyn as the last trio to fall.
There were already more than 330,000 in the middle when the completed board showed 
and Emin Mugulov bet 65,000.
Artur Osipov took a sip from his Pepsi and pushed all in, which forced a fold from Mugulov. Osipov tabled 
and high-fived table neighbor Giorgiy Skhulukhiya.
Two big stacks met when the turn showed 
and Artem Metelskiy bet 75,000, which Michael Rodrigues called. On the 
river, Metelskiy double-checked his cards and made it 165,000 to go.
Rodrigues folded and Metelskiy raked in the pot.
Yi Ye raised to 26,000 and Vladimir Lelgant called from one seat over. Gleb Kovtunov jammed for more than 25 big blinds and Ye called, Lelgant folded.
Gleb Kovtunov: 
Yi Ye: 
On a board of 
, Kovtunov found no help and became the first casualty after the break. Day 1c chip leader Georgiy Agababaev followed right after to reduce the field to 68 hopefuls.
Level: 19
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
Yam Hod Gilad was eliminated just before the remaining 70 players were sent on a 20-minute break. Another two levels of 60 minutes each remain for tonight.
Roman Korenev made it 18,000 to go and received a flat-call by Aleksandr Leonov from one seat over. Siarhei Chupadal then pushed for 161,000 and Korenev got out of the way.
Leonov mulled over his decision for half a minute and made the call.
Siarhei Chupadal: 
Aleksandr Leonov: 
The better pocket pair held up on a 
runout and that sent Chupadal to the payout desk.
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