Russian NL Holdem Championship is over

IN Zavidovo (Tver region) hosted the Russian No-Limit Hold'em Championship. The tournament was attended by 72 participants, each of whom paid a $10'000 entry fee. The organizers of the tournament added an additional $150'000 to the prize pool. Championship winner was Kirill Rabtsovwho beat in heads-up Sergei Buteev.

Final distribution. Buteev bet 30K, Rabtsov called. The flop comes 2-10-7... Kirill checks and Sergei bets 50K, after which Rabtsov raises to 150K. Buteev calls. Thorn - 10... Kirill bets 220K and Kirill calls. The river is K and Rabtsov bets on almost the entire remaining stack of Buteev. Buteev bets all his chips, Rabtsov calls and shows J-10... At Buteev K-6 and he loses with a pair of kings to the thrips of Kirill Rabtsov, who becomes the 2008 No Limit Hold'em Champion of Russia.

Prize places were distributed as follows:

1st place - Kirill Rabtsov

2nd place - Sergei Buteev

3rd place - Lika Gerasimova

4th place - Eduard Kapitonov

5th place - Stanislav Alekhin

6th place - Karen Karamanov

7th place - Valery Koka

8th place - Igor Pleshko

9th place - Alexander Marchenko

10th place - Dmitry Nemirovsky

11th place - Maxim Katz

12th place - Alexander Titestein

13th place - Nikolay Losev

14th place - Alexey Andriyanov

15th place - Andrey Ermolov