RSP LIVE Tournament.
The fourth RSP Live tournament took place on March, 30th, 2008 at the “Europoker” poker club in Yaroslavl and held more than 40 sportsmen. Unfortunately, not all interested persons could participate in this competition, having got only in the waiting list. That was the first experience of conducting such scale action, and subsequently a club management will try to provide seats to all visitors.
The tournament was planned to start at 7:00 p.m. The preliminary registration began a month before. The structure of the tournament assumed an opportunity to make a re-buy within the first hour of game, and also to make an add-on during the first break. As a result the prize-winning fund of the tournament numbered 278 000 rubles. Top six places were paid-off. It is necessary to note, that the “Europoker” club added 30 000 rubles to the prize-winning fund as a gift to the sportsmen. Besides, each participant of tournament received souvenirs from RSP. Also there was a buffet table with snack and free drinks for all visitors - both participants, and spectators.
The tournament attracted attention of players from nearby cities: Kostroma, Ivanovo, Moscow.
The competition last more than 6 hours and as a result the most worthy players formed a final table. Six of them became prize-winners:
- Mark Pukhov (111 400 rubles).
- Sergey Jurasov (63 900 rubles).
- Andrey Sakolishch (36 100 rubles).
- Ilya Homenko (27 800 rubles).
- Maxim Flegontov (22 200 rubles).
- Vladimir Bon (16 600 rubles).
Also the 7th place comer got $200 on his Red Star Poker account.
Both organizers, and sportsmen were pleased with results of the last tournament, and it is possible to assume, that the subsequent similar events will collect even more participants as poker gains more popularity in Yaroslavl. Now daily tournaments in the “Europoker” club collect on average 15 persons every evening, and then sportsmen play cash-games all night long.
Info: Yaroslavl.
This is one of the ancient cities in Russia. It is going to celebrate its 1000 anniversary in 2010. On 15th of December the table clock with a back account of the days left till the great anniversary of the city was switched.
It is an administrative center of Yaroslavskaya Oblast and Yaroslavsky region. The population is more than 600,000 people. Yaroslavl is included in the famous tourist route of the Golden Ring of Russia. There is a great amount of the ancient Russian cultural architectural monuments. The most ancient building in the territory of the city is Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral of Spassky cloister which was erected in 1506-1516 on the base of the initial building of 1216-1224.
In 1612 from this very place Zemskoye Opolchenie of Minin and Pozharsky went for the deliverance of Moscow. A list of the ancient Russian poem “Slovo o Polku Igoreve” was found in 1790s in the rich local library.
Yaroslavl is a big industrial center at the intersection of significant automobile, railway and water ways. There are several big factories in the city: oil-refining plant, tyre factory, car-repair plant, electrical machine-building plant, shipbuilding plant, pharmaceutical factory and many others in the city. Also there is a number of light and food industries.
The city is known by its sports teams. The hockey team “Lokomotiv” (the title-holder in 1997, 2002, 2003 in Russia) represents Yaroslavl at the Russian hockey championship. The club Shinnik competes in the soccer Premier-league. In the major league of Russian volleyball championship the city is represented by the team “Yaroslavets”.
The names of the following outstanding people are connected with Yaroslavl: russian poet Nikolay Nekrasov, the first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and winner of the Oscar prize animator Alexander Petrov.
