Vitaly Lunkin Wins the Russian Poker Tour Moscow

The PokerStars Russian Poker Tour Moscow main event, which took place over the weekend, was won by Russian poker player Vitaly Lunkin. Lunkin first emerged on the poker scene when he won a $1,500 no-limit hold’em event at the 2008 World Series of Poker and took home $628,417 in prize money along with his first gold bracelet. Lunkin was dominant at the final table that featured nine Russian players, and he took a large chip lead of 2,790,000 into the heads-up final against Vyacheslav Gorjachev, who held just 310,000. On the final hand, Lunkin held pocket tens and Gorjachev found his tournament life on the line with A 6. The board ran out Q 8 6 4 8, and Lunkin was the champion of the event.

Lunkin took home 14,230,000 roubles ($443,731) for the win, and Gorjachev was awarded 7,877,000 roubles ($245,627) for second place. The third day of play began with 36 players, and they had a long march down to the final nine players. When the final table was reached, another day was added to the schedule due to the late hour. Along with Lunkin, the final table featured well-known Russian professionals and Team PokerStars pros Ivan Demidov (sixth place) and Alexander Kravchenko (eighth place). The top 27 players all walked away with prize money in the event. The total number of players who participated in the Moscow event was 206.

Here is a look at the full final-table results:

1: Vitaly Lunkin — 14,323,000
2: Vyacheslav Gorjachev — 7,877,000
3: Alexander Haustov — 4,028,000
4: Oleg Shamordin — 3,133,000
5: Sergey Artamonov — 2,685,000
6: Ivan Demidov — 2,238,000
7: Dmitry Vitkind — 1,790,000
8: Alexander Kravchenko — 1,342,000
9: Evgenie Onishchuk — 895,000

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