Anatoly Filatov Wins 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event

Anatoly Filatov has won the 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia ₽318,000 ($5,023 USD) buy-in no-limit hold’em main event, defeating a field of 916 total entries to win the ₽60,000,000 ($900,000 USD) first-place prize. This was the largest score of the 28-year-old Russian poker pro and partypoker ambassador’s career, and it brought his lifetime live tournament earnings to more than $2.7 million.

In addition to the money and the title, Filatov also took home 1,824 Card Player Player of the Year points. This was his third final-table finish of the year, and as a result of this huge win he has climbed to 58th place on the overall 2018 POY leaderboard.

Filatov came into the final day of this event in eighth chip position with 11 players remaining. Filatov survived to eight-handed action, at which point his KQ outran the AK of Konstantin Uspenskii. Filatov made two pair by the river, sending Uspenskii home with $63,000 USD. He scored his next knockout with pocket kings, which held up against Mikhail Galitskiy’s AQ to knock him out in seventh place with $90,000 USD.

Filatov busted Alexey Melnikov in fifth place ($180,000 USD) to move into second chip position behind Gor Kazaryan. He moved into the outright lead when he picked up pocket queens and called the all-in of Viktor Khodorenko, who had shoved with the A7. Filatov made a set on the turn to send Khodorenko to the rail in fourth place ($270,000 USD).

Kazaryan retook the lead before Filatov knocked out Andrey Malyshev in third place ($400,950 USD) to set up the final showdown. Kazaryan took 534,000,000 into heads-up, with Filatov sitting behind 378,000,000 to start. Filatov was able to battle his way into the lead by the time the final hand arose. With blinds of 6,000,000-12,000,000 and a 12,000,000 big blind ante, Kazaryan limped in from the button with the Q9. Filatov raised to 27,000,000 from the big blind holding the J10 and Kazaryan called. The flop brought the Q97 and Filatov checked. Kazaryan bet 35,000,000 and Filatov made the call. The K hit the turn and Filatov checked again. Kazaryan bet 55,000,000. Filatov moved all-in with his turned straight and Kazaryan made the call with his two pair. The river was the A, securing the pot and the title for Filatov. Kazaryan was awarded $585,000 USD as the second-place finisher.

The winner of #MILLIONSRussia is none other than @filatovpoker. A huge congratulations to Anatoly on winning $1,000,000 and the trophy! pic.twitter.com/heVJomrzUr

— partypokerLIVE (@partypokerlive) August 13, 2018

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:

Winner photo credit: partypoker LIVE Twitter account (@partypokerlive).

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