RSP LIVE Tournament

The tournament took place on March, 1, 2008 in the poker-club “Big Blind”. This tournament, held in St. Petersburg, was a third one of the series of events, conducted by Red Star Poker.

The action was held in the poker-club “Big Blind”, one of the best poker clubs of the Northern Capital at the present moment. By the time of registration it was already obvious that there would be no vacant places at the tables. And in fact, all the six tables were occupied, and there were more other persons who wanted to participate – that’s why the organizers took a decision to increase the number of players at the one table up to 11 persons. Besides, you had the opportunity to register in the waiting list in case of someone of the players would leave the tournament before the ending of three first levels. Consequently 72 players were registered.

The structure of the tournament suggested that there was an opportunity to re-buy during the first hour of the game and to make an addon during the first break. In the result the formed prize fond was 402,500 rubles. Top ten places were paid-off.

The tournament grabbed not only the citizens’ attention: there was also a delegation from Moscow poker-club “ODON”, who took part in the tournament.

It took nearly 6 hours for the players to define the 10 strongest ones and to form the final table, and one more half an hour to define the winners of the tournament. These were 4 persons at the same time, having agreed to share the prize. Unfortunately, only 3 names of the players are known: Arkadiy Shefler, Sergey Lyubchenko and Marina Kolbeshkina (the representative of Moscow poker club “ODON”).

We can say that the tournament RSP LIVE in St. Petersburg was successfully held, having gathered the maximum amount of players among the similar tournaments of the series. Moreover, the poker-club plans to increase the amount of tables that will give the opportunity to gather more participants in future. It was a first experience of playing in the live tournament for many of the players. Hopefully it brought only positive emotions for them.

Info: St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It is the major (after Moscow) economical, industrial and cultural center of Russia. It was founded in 1703 by the first Russian emperor( the tsar at that time) Peter I. The population was approximately 4 600 000 people in 2007. It is the most northern city of the world with a population of more than one million people. St. Petersburg is situated on the North-West of Russia, on the adjacent to the mouth bank of the Neva River and on numerous islands of the Neva delta.

Since 1712 till 1918 St. Petersburg was a capital of the Russian Empire and a residence of all Russian emperors. The city experienced December Rebellion of 1825 and a number of revolutions and coup d’etats in the beginning of the 20th century, including The Great October Revolution of 1917.

St. Petersburg was always considered the city with a special aura and a unique atmosphere, the city of creative and scientific intelligentsia. Many outstanding Russian people lived here. This is the hometown of Peter the Great, Alexander Pushkin, Vladimir Putin. St. Petersburg is the biggest scientific center, “the capital of higher education” in Russia. There is a scientific center of Russian Academy of Sciences and there are numerous scientific research institutes in the city.

St. Petersburg is the city on water. It takes the fist place among other cities of Russia and one of the first places in the world. There are 100 rivers, brooks and more than 20 canals with over 800 bridges across, including 218 pedestrian ones.

St. Petersburg is one of the main economical centers in Russia. The economy of the city is mainly based on industry and tourism. It took the 4th place in Russia by the volume of the regional gross output.