Dmitriy Yurasov's Epic Journey at the World Series of Poker

The Big 50 tournament had a $500 buy-in and a $1,000,000 guarantee for the first place. The last flight 1D of the Big 50 tournament had 9,171 entries.

Anatoly Zyrin spent 8 hours and 20 minutes in line to get to the table. This was a remarkable feat, as he stood in line for 33 times longer than he actually played at the table.

Dmitriy Yurasov made it to the final table of the $50,000 high roller tournament. He finished the second day with the second-largest stack of 4,800,000 chips. Dmitriy Yurasov became the chip leader with 6,000,000 chips but lost half of his chips in a hand against Andrew Lichtenberger. Despite this setback, he finished the tournament in 6th place with 3,660,000 chips.