EPT Copenhagen: Mikhail 'Sosnoviy' Shakhovich Advances to Day 2

The EPT Copenhagen poker tournament started with 423 participants, including local Danish players and international stars like Peter Eastgate, Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier, Annette Obrestad, and Victor 'possibly Isildur1' Bloom. Russia was represented by 14 players, including Nikolai Losev, Evgeny 'Swen' Zaytsev, Max 'Decay' Lykov, and Mikhail 'Sosnoviy' Shakhovich.

Only six Russian players advanced to the second day: Alexei Tkachenko, Mikhail 'Sosnoviy' Shakhovich, Andrey Vlasenko, Yuri Kerzapkin, Vasily Fursov, and Andrey Lapin. Max 'Decay' Lykov's stack fluctuated around the starting mark of 30,000 and eventually lost his stack to Kenth Lundmark.

Peter Eastgate started the second day with the fourth-largest stack of 128,300 chips. Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier started the second day with 113,700 chips. Mikhail 'Sosnoviy' Shakhovich started the second day with 60,100 chips.