Nachdem PokerStars Live Events zum Start des Jahres auf den Bahamas beim PokerStars Caribbean Adventure war, ging es nun weiter nach Russland, oder genauer gesagt in die Olympia Stadt Sochi am Schwarze Meer. Gastgeber der erste PokerStars European Poker Tour 2019 ist das Casino Sochi. Das Highlight des EPT Festival ist selbstverständlich der RUB191.800 (€2.637) EPT Sochi Main Event, bei dem ein Preisgeld von RUB150.000.000 (€2.062.070) garantiert wird. Dafür werden insgesamt 782 Entries benötigt. 2018 durfte man bei diesem Event 861 Entries verbuchen. Am Sonntag fiel bereits der Startschuss und hier durfte man 251 Entries verbuchen und 95 Pokercracks konnten sich für Tag 2 qualifizieren. Den Chiplead holte der Russe Aleksandr Denisov mit 498.600 (311,5 Big Blinds). Aus unseren Gefilden überstanden Tag 1a, Eugen Fritzler (GER) 39 Big Blinds, Klaus Haunschmidt (AUT) 34,5 Big Blinds und Oleg Drews (GER) 23,5 Big Blinds.
Am Montagvormittag um 10:00 Uhr unserer Zeit startete dann Tag 1b. Gespielt wurde mit einer Startdotation von 30.000 und man musste zehn Levels à 60 Minuten überstehen. Pro Starttag war ein Re-Entry erlaubt. Die Late-Registration ist noch bis zum Start von Tag 2 geöffnet. Am Tag 1b kamen 359 Entries zusammen und 137 von ihnen schafften es heil durch den Tag. Den Chiplead konnte sich der Russe Viktor Ustimov mit 307.500 (192 Big Blinds) sichern. Als bester DACH-Spieler überstand der Schweizer Rachid Amamou mit 80,5 Big Blinds den Tag. Auch der Deutsche Tobias Matuscheck darf am Tag 2 wieder Platz nehmen, allerdings als Short Stack mit 15,5 Big Blinds. Auf der Strecke blieben hingegen die Deutschen, Stephan Strauch, Stefan Bormann, Robert Roht, Clements Erretkamps und Julius Schaumburg.
Am Abend fand dann noch der Turbo Flight (30 Minuten Levels) 1c statt. 82 Spieler nutzte dieses schnelle Vergnügen und 40 konnten ihr Ticket für Tag 2 lösen. Den Chiplead von Tag 1c holte sich der Russe Denis Sapozhiniko mit 207.700 (130 Big Blinds). Insgesamt gehen 272 Spieler in Tag 2. Als Overall-Chipleader startet Aleksandr Denisov (RUS) mit 498.600 (311,5 Big Blinds).
Am Dienstagvormittag um 10:00 Uhr (MEZ) geht es mit Tag 2 im Level 11 bei Blinds 800/1.600 (Big Blind Ante) weiter. Am Tag 2 werden fünf Levels à 90 Minuten gespielt. Der Average liegt bei 76.323 (48 Big Blinds). Ab 10:30 Uhr (MEZ) gibt es auch einen Livestream vom Tag 2.
Bei unseren Kollegen von PokerNews gibt es einen Live-Blog zum Turnier.
Weitere Informationen zur EPT Sochi gibt es hier.
Hier sind die Chipcounts und der Redraw für Tag 2:
| Name | Country | Chips | Table | Seat |
| Aleksandr Denisov | Russia | 498600 | 34 | 8 |
| Illia Korobkin | Ukraine | 352700 | 12 | 1 |
| Viktor Ustimov | Russia | 307500 | 41 | 6 |
| Roman Gadzhiev | Russia | 240900 | 9 | 1 |
| Serafim Kovalevsky | Russia | 233900 | 35 | 6 |
| Denis Sapozhnikov | Russia | 207700 | 24 | 5 |
| Igor Grytsak | Ukraine | 197500 | 22 | 7 |
| Leonid Semenyuk | Russia | 195200 | 36 | 3 |
| Sihao Zhang | Luxembourg | 194200 | 16 | 5 |
| Aleksey Falko | Belarus | 192900 | 20 | 5 |
| Yuriy Guliy | Russia | 191300 | 32 | 8 |
| Said Butba | Russia | 180900 | 15 | 7 |
| Uri Gilboa | Israel | 177700 | 21 | 3 |
| Nikita Kuznetsov | Russia | 177300 | 15 | 3 |
| Rudolf Domin | Russia | 169600 | 30 | 6 |
| Dmitriy Shutenko | Russia | 168000 | 1 | 1 |
| Aben Zholgaliev | Kazakhstan | 168000 | 36 | 2 |
| Nikolay Plastinin | Russia | 166600 | 5 | 3 |
| Sergey Chaban | Russia | 163000 | 6 | 6 |
| Murun Ganzorig | Mongolia | 162700 | 24 | 3 |
| Artem Vezhenkov | Russia | 161000 | 40 | 3 |
| Eduard Burd | Israel | 158600 | 28 | 2 |
| Yang Wang | China | 153300 | 34 | 1 |
| Sergey Litvinov | Russia | 148200 | 39 | 8 |
| Danil Bukharin | Russia | 145100 | 22 | 8 |
| Xiaotian Yang | China | 144400 | 35 | 8 |
| Andrey Lukyanov | Russia | 143900 | 33 | 6 |
| Pavel Polikarpov | Russia | 140000 | 3 | 1 |
| Aram Vartevanyan | Russia | 138200 | 11 | 6 |
| Mikhail Aleksandrov | Russia | 137500 | 16 | 7 |
| Alexey Pugachev | Russia | 136600 | 1 | 7 |
| Ramon Colillas | Spain | 134000 | 26 | 6 |
| Aleksandr Osharov | Russia | 133700 | 20 | 1 |
| Ermek Usenov | Kyrgyzstan | 133200 | 16 | 6 |
| Andrey Chernokoz | Russia | 132600 | 32 | 6 |
| Vanush Mnatsakanyan | Russia | 130000 | 2 | 8 |
| Artem Petrov | Russia | 128700 | 9 | 2 |
| Sriharsha Doddapaneni | India | 128500 | 2 | 2 |
| Rachid Amamou | Switzerland | 128500 | 7 | 6 |
| Andrey Andreev | Russia | 124300 | 18 | 1 |
| Garik Tamasyan | Armenia | 124300 | 25 | 3 |
| Giorgiy Skhulukhiya | Russia | 123700 | 37 | 5 |
| Almat Idrisov | Kazakhstan | 123600 | 8 | 2 |
| Vytautas Semaska | Lithuania | 123000 | 23 | 8 |
| Sergey Kolyasnikov | Russia | 119400 | 4 | 1 |
| Matous Houzvicek | Czech Republic | 118000 | 10 | 8 |
| Stanislav Shchipalov | Russia | 117900 | 11 | 5 |
| Garri Tevosov | Russia | 117000 | 2 | 1 |
| Andrey Gurev | Russia | 116500 | 23 | 2 |
| Viktor Kudinov | Russia | 115500 | 21 | 5 |
| Timur Khamidullin | Russia | 115000 | 10 | 1 |
| Vitaliy Pankov | Russia | 115000 | 25 | 8 |
| Maksim Bukreev | Russia | 113200 | 14 | 1 |
| Martin Pecnik | Slovakia | 110000 | 19 | 6 |
| Nikolay Abramov | Russia | 110000 | 24 | 1 |
| Alexandr Sergutin | Russia | 109700 | 14 | 7 |
| Vitaliy Karaivan | Russia | 107600 | 6 | 2 |
| Rinat Tulepbergenov | Kazakhstan | 105600 | 37 | 1 |
| Alexsey Ponomarenko | Russia | 105500 | 33 | 3 |
| Sergey Chantsev | Russia | 104800 | 7 | 5 |
| Lev Moiseenko | Russia | 104000 | 29 | 1 |
| Alexsey Golubev | Russia | 103800 | 30 | 3 |
| Aleksandr Sheshukov | Russia | 103600 | 5 | 7 |
| Vladimir Romodanov | Russia | 103000 | 24 | 2 |
| Ekaterina Shevchenko | Russia | 101300 | 30 | 2 |
| Vasiliy Tsapko | Russia | 97700 | 11 | 3 |
| Oleg Pavlyuchuk | Russia | 95600 | 2 | 6 |
| Alexsey Gatsko | Russia | 95600 | 8 | 8 |
| Meng Wang | China | 94200 | 35 | 5 |
| Andrey Kryazhev | Russia | 93000 | 4 | 4 |
| Dmitriy Belikov | Russia | 93000 | 40 | 5 |
| Anatolii Zyrin | Russia | 92500 | 1 | 6 |
| Andrey Malyshev | Russia | 92100 | 26 | 7 |
| Andrejs Trofimovs | Latvia | 90000 | 8 | 6 |
| Alexsey Bersenev | Russia | 89300 | 36 | 5 |
| Fergan Coyle | Ireland | 88800 | 12 | 8 |
| Aleksandr Roldugin | Russia | 88800 | 24 | 6 |
| Tobby Drimer | Israel | 88600 | 2 | 7 |
| Sergey Konovalov | Russia | 88000 | 1 | 2 |
| Sergey Melnichuk | Russia | 87900 | 31 | 8 |
| Sergey Perelygin | Russia | 87200 | 26 | 2 |
| Vladimir Ovshinov | Russia | 86900 | 3 | 6 |
| Rob Van Der Woude | Netherlands | 86600 | 32 | 5 |
| Vasilijus Piskunovas | Lithuania | 86300 | 40 | 6 |
| Or Arie Patreanu | Israel | 85500 | 33 | 8 |
| Andrey Ivlev | Russia | 84600 | 20 | 6 |
| Artur Martirosyan | Russia | 84300 | 22 | 2 |
| Dmitry Yurasov | Russia | 84200 | 28 | 5 |
| Leonid Isaychenkov | Russia | 83800 | 5 | 5 |
| Sergey Menshov | Kazakhstan | 83100 | 15 | 8 |
| Mikhail Zavoloka | Russia | 82800 | 23 | 1 |
| Daniil Kiselev | Russia | 82700 | 17 | 3 |
| Oleg Eltsov | Russia | 82300 | 34 | 5 |
| Vladimir Demenkov | Russia | 82200 | 33 | 5 |
| Aleksandr Altynov | Russia | 82100 | 2 | 5 |
| Aleksey Khromov | Russia | 81100 | 17 | 1 |
| Wenling Gao | China | 80900 | 11 | 2 |
| Vitaliy Li | Russia | 80700 | 16 | 8 |
| Anton Smirnov | Russia | 80700 | 36 | 6 |
| Dorian Rios Pavon | Venezuela | 79500 | 41 | 2 |
| Mateusz Baclawski | Poland | 79200 | 14 | 2 |
| Anant Purohit | India | 79000 | 7 | 4 |
| Keisuke Hikosaka | Japan | 78700 | 3 | 8 |
| Arseniy Karmatskiy | Russia | 78100 | 23 | 6 |
| Alexandr Shelukhin | Russia | 77800 | 17 | 8 |
| Nikita Kalinin | Russia | 77700 | 19 | 2 |
| Vladimir Lubyanov | Russia | 77300 | 3 | 2 |
| Viktor Rizhih | Russia | 76600 | 34 | 3 |
| Jayjit Ray | India | 76500 | 38 | 3 |
| Arkadiy Stekolshchikov | Russia | 76300 | 17 | 5 |
| Andrey Kotelnikov | Russia | 76100 | 28 | 3 |
| Vasiliy Mukhtalov | Russia | 75700 | 6 | 1 |
| Roman Kozhevnikov | Russia | 75600 | 26 | 5 |
| Mikhail Lobanov | Russia | 74600 | 16 | 1 |
| Aleksey Savenkov | Russia | 74300 | 1 | 5 |
| Sergey Petrushevskiy | Russia | 73800 | 12 | 6 |
| Aleksandr Milyaev | Russia | 73500 | 15 | 6 |
| Natik Ismailov | Russia | 73500 | 22 | 1 |
| Josef Snejberg | Czech Republic | 71300 | 20 | 2 |
| John Enright | Ireland | 71100 | 27 | 8 |
| Irshat Shaykhov | Russia | 70500 | 8 | 5 |
| Dmitriy Zhdanov | Russia | 69600 | 23 | 5 |
| Bogdan Chyrkov | Ukraine | 69600 | 27 | 5 |
| Azamat Tyazhgov | Russia | 69000 | 20 | 8 |
| Semen Vlyakh | Russia | 68100 | 39 | 1 |
| Sergenii Blagodarnii | Russia | 67800 | 17 | 2 |
| Francisco Benitez | Uruguay | 67100 | 13 | 8 |
| Sergei Popov | Russia | 66500 | 31 | 2 |
| Vladislav Prtrov | Russia | 66300 | 14 | 6 |
| Aidyn Kanabekov | Kazakhstan | 64600 | 25 | 6 |
| Alex Bilokur | Russia | 64200 | 4 | 3 |
| Vyacheslav Kovantsev | Russia | 64200 | 5 | 8 |
| Ruslan Mityaev | Ukraine | 63900 | 12 | 7 |
| Sergey Baburin | Russia | 63700 | 11 | 1 |
| Vadim Baranov | Russia | 63700 | 21 | 4 |
| Igor Kuznetsov | Russia | 63500 | 31 | 1 |
| Maksim Illarionov | Russia | 63300 | 16 | 2 |
| Ivan Svitlychnyi | Russia | 63100 | 21 | 2 |
| Vahe Voskanyan | Armenia | 63000 | 10 | 4 |
| Eugen Fritzler | Germany | 62500 | 3 | 3 |
| Mikhail Shalamov | Russia | 62100 | 15 | 2 |
| Ezatulla Amani | Russia | 61800 | 22 | 5 |
| Alexandr Steblina | Russia | 61100 | 30 | 5 |
| Konstantin Puchkov | Russia | 60800 | 10 | 5 |
| Evgeniy Tomilin | Russia | 60700 | 7 | 1 |
| Yunus Tuguz | Russia | 60500 | 18 | 4 |
| Nikita Korolev | Russia | 59200 | 25 | 2 |
| Qiaonan Liu | China | 59000 | 17 | 6 |
| Bertrand Ciaglo | France | 58800 | 32 | 3 |
| Grygoriy Shevchenko | Ukraine | 58400 | 29 | 6 |
| Nikolay Chebotarev | Russia | 57000 | 39 | 5 |
| Vladimir Drokin | Ukraine | 56800 | 18 | 8 |
| Maksim Pervenenok | Russia | 56700 | 6 | 8 |
| Sergey Druzhinin | Russia | 56600 | 13 | 4 |
| Maksim Pisarenko | Russia | 55900 | 39 | 2 |
| Sergey Galaktionov | Russia | 55600 | 32 | 2 |
| Locif Tizouiar | France | 55300 | 3 | 5 |
| Gennadiy Kalinichenko | Russia | 55200 | 5 | 6 |
| Vladimir Gordienko | Russia | 55200 | 15 | 1 |
| Stepan Mikhno | Russia | 55000 | 39 | 3 |
| Vitaliy Avanesyan | Russia | 55000 | 41 | 3 |
| Klaus Haunschmidt | Austria | 54900 | 21 | 8 |
| Ivan Govorov | Russia | 54700 | 17 | 7 |
| Aleksey Istomin | Russia | 54400 | 7 | 8 |
| Anatoly Zuev | Russia | 53600 | 33 | 2 |
| Aditya Sushant | India | 53300 | 11 | 8 |
| Kiryl Radzivonau | Belarus | 53000 | 41 | 5 |
| Sergey Bagirov | Russia | 52900 | 18 | 5 |
| Pavel Ignatov | Russia | 51500 | 22 | 6 |
| Cyril Morisset | France | 51400 | 19 | 8 |
| Tatyana Barausova | Russia | 50800 | 5 | 1 |
| Vyacheslav Mizun | Russia | 50600 | 31 | 6 |
| Yi Ye | China | 50200 | 26 | 1 |
| Anatoliy Voropaev | Russia | 50000 | 13 | 5 |
| Aleksey Opalikhin | Russia | 49800 | 6 | 5 |
| Jiayu Ruan | China | 49500 | 18 | 6 |
| Jean Souprayenmestry | France | 49500 | 37 | 6 |
| Yaniv Peretz | Latvia | 49100 | 6 | 3 |
| Mikhail Zub | Russia | 49100 | 35 | 3 |
| Ashot Kagramanyan | Russia | 49100 | 40 | 1 |
| Pier Varrelli | Italy | 49000 | 6 | 7 |
| Oleg Mikhailov | Estonia | 49000 | 35 | 1 |
| Yen-Han Chen | China | 48700 | 20 | 3 |
| Oleg Breshkov | Russia | 47900 | 10 | 3 |
| Andrew Carasco | Ireland | 47600 | 5 | 2 |
| Darkhan Rakhymzhanov | Kazakhstan | 47200 | 24 | 4 |
| Tianyou Liu | China | 46700 | 4 | 6 |
| Kirill Egorov | Russia | 45400 | 33 | 1 |
| Wei Jiao | China | 44800 | 9 | 8 |
| Roman Sokolov | Russia | 44400 | 32 | 1 |
| Yesset Aimukhanov | Kazakhstan | 44300 | 9 | 7 |
| Andrey Danilyuk | Russia | 44000 | 4 | 8 |
| Elvin Sarkarov | Azerbaijan | 43700 | 12 | 2 |
| Vadim Lipovka | Belarus | 42800 | 13 | 6 |
| Marat Begenov | Kazakhstan | 42800 | 41 | 1 |
| Ilya Raldugin | Russia | 42200 | 19 | 7 |
| Viktor Shegay | Russia | 41800 | 9 | 3 |
| Ruslan Ilkhamov | Russia | 41300 | 20 | 4 |
| Oleg Titov | Russia | 40000 | 30 | 8 |
| Karolis Domarkas | Lithuania | 39500 | 14 | 8 |
| Egor Gerasimchuk | Russia | 38800 | 26 | 8 |
| Roman Novoselov | Russia | 38700 | 4 | 2 |
| Pavel Kazakov | Russia | 38600 | 38 | 5 |
| Denis Lavrov | Russia | 38400 | 10 | 6 |
| Aleksandr Lakhov | Russia | 38000 | 38 | 2 |
| Gansukh Badamsed | Mongolia | 37600 | 37 | 3 |
| Oleg Drews | Germany | 37400 | 12 | 5 |
| Amir Shomron | Israel | 37300 | 2 | 3 |
| Vyacheslav Nikulin | Russia | 37200 | 1 | 3 |
| Amir Oganyan | Russia | 37200 | 19 | 1 |
| Anonymous player | Russia | 37200 | 23 | 4 |
| Andriy Lyubovetskiy | Ukraine | 34800 | 11 | 7 |
| Valeriy Vasilev | Russia | 34800 | 37 | 8 |
| Alexander Zubov | Russia | 34700 | 38 | 1 |
| Alexandr Lukyanov | Russia | 34500 | 14 | 5 |
| Andrey Bondar | Russia | 34100 | 18 | 2 |
| Andrei Mjagkov | Estonia | 33900 | 8 | 3 |
| Maksim Panyak | Russia | 33800 | 38 | 8 |
| Dmitriy Khrebtovich | Russia | 33600 | 40 | 2 |
| Akzhul Dabylov | Kazakhstan | 32600 | 19 | 5 |
| Vladimir Lappo | Belarus | 32300 | 36 | 1 |
| Ron Sade | Israel | 30800 | 36 | 8 |
| Alexsey Psurtcev | Russia | 30500 | 16 | 3 |
| Denis Pisarev | Russia | 30100 | 13 | 1 |
| Fiodar Skrunda | Belarus | 30000 | 27 | 6 |
| Rinat Shakirov | Russia | 29700 | 27 | 2 |
| Chen Yisha | China | 29500 | 4 | 5 |
| Valeriy Mametiev | Russia | 29200 | 21 | 1 |
| Andrey Kozin | Russia | 29000 | 28 | 8 |
| Munkhbayar Nyamsuren | Mongolia | 28800 | 29 | 5 |
| Pavel Gavrish | Russia | 28700 | 22 | 3 |
| Yury Masliankou | Belarus | 28300 | 29 | 8 |
| Konstantin Kvashin | Russia | 28200 | 21 | 6 |
| Andrey Martyanov | Russia | 28000 | 13 | 3 |
| Vitaliy Volov | Russia | 28000 | 25 | 7 |
| Felipe Rodrigues Pantoja | Brazil | 27500 | 27 | 1 |
| Sergey Kerzhakov | Russia | 27000 | 28 | 1 |
| Arman Atshemyan | Armenia | 26400 | 28 | 6 |
| Vladislav Orysenko | Russia | 25900 | 25 | 5 |
| Dzmitry Sushchanka | Belarus | 25700 | 12 | 3 |
| Ivan Volodko | Russia | 25300 | 10 | 2 |
| Vasily Yarkov | Russia | 25100 | 9 | 5 |
| Tobias Matuschek | Germany | 24500 | 31 | 5 |
| Pengyu Lin | China | 24100 | 23 | 3 |
| Laurynas Levinskas | Lithuania | 23700 | 8 | 4 |
| Ivan Ruban | Russia | 23200 | 27 | 3 |
| Nikolay Fal | Russia | 23000 | 15 | 5 |
| Anton Danilov | Russia | 22900 | 14 | 3 |
| Aleksey Kozlov | Russia | 22400 | 31 | 3 |
| Yoriy Gorohov | Russia | 22400 | 41 | 8 |
| Dmitriy Kopyl | Russia | 22100 | 1 | 8 |
| Aleksandr Kopasov | Russia | 22000 | 18 | 3 |
| Denis Timofeev | Russia | 21600 | 29 | 3 |
| Aleksandr Pozdnyakov | Russia | 21500 | 35 | 2 |
| Sergey Frizyak | Russia | 21100 | 37 | 2 |
| Kartik Ved | India | 19700 | 9 | 6 |
| Sergey Stazhkov | Russia | 19400 | 24 | 8 |
| Amiran Andguladze | Russia | 18900 | 30 | 1 |
| Tomas Fionn Macnamara | UK | 18700 | 3 | 7 |
| Aleksey Gortikov | Russia | 18600 | 34 | 2 |
| Ryuichiro Yamakawa | Japan | 17600 | 26 | 3 |
| Irina Gorkaya | Russia | 17400 | 7 | 2 |
| Aleksandr Nemtsov | Russia | 17000 | 34 | 6 |
| Antonios Onoufriou | Cyprus | 16700 | 13 | 2 |
| Zhuojie Mao | China | 16200 | 25 | 1 |
| Alexey Avramenko | Russia | 16100 | 29 | 2 |
| Nikolay Evdokimov | Russia | 15400 | 39 | 6 |
| Serhii Holodiuk | Ukraine | 13100 | 38 | 6 |
| Aleksandr Pustovoy | Russia | 12200 | 8 | 1 |
| Alexsandr Kovalev | Russia | 11200 | 7 | 3 |
| Pierre Colson | France | 9600 | 40 | 8 |
| Adel Latypov | Russia | 9300 | 19 | 3 |
Quelle/Bildquelle: PokerStars
