The Russian Poker is back and has crowned a brand new champion. This weekend in Kyiv, Ukraine, 123 players sat down for the Main Event and played for the $220,720 prize pool. Some of the biggest names in Russian poker showed up to play, including Alex Kravchenko, Ivan Demidov, Alexander Dovzhenko, WCOOP bracelet winner Vadim Markushevsky, and ET Kyiv champion Maxim Lykov. On the fourth day of play, the final table players worked their way through an eleven hours battle and down to a dead even heads-up battle between Vadim Markushevsky and Vadim Kursevich. Rather than fight a protracted battle,
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Vitaly Lunkin wins PokerStars RPT Moscow
If you happened to be a patriotic Russian looking to support a local player at a big poker tournament, then Moscow yesterday was the place to be. All nine players at the successful PokerStars Russian Poker Tour final table in Moscow were from the home country. And two of them...more
RPT Moscow: Russian Team PokerStars Pros on song for final
Each year in Europe there is a musical spectacular in which countries fight it out to become winners of the Eurovision Song Contest. Some take it more seriously than others, but it involves a glittering show in which 25 nations perform their song, and then the population of 42 countries...more
RPT Moscow: Russian Team Pros enjoying home game
It's fair to say that Team PokerStars Pro covers the globe. It has world champions in the US, Australia and Denmark, and a selection of the highest quality performers from all continents in between. At day two of the PokerStars-sponsored Russian Poker Tour event in Moscow, it was fitting that...more
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