The Russian Poker is back and has crowned a brand spanking new champion.

This weekend in Kyiv, Ukraine, 123 players sat down for the principle Event and played for the $220,720 prize pool. One of the biggest names in Russian poker showed as much as play, including Alex Kravchenko, Ivan Demidov, Alexander Dovzhenko, WCOOP bracelet winner Vadim Markushevsky, and ET Kyiv champion Maxim Lykov.

On the fourth day of play, the general table players worked their way through an eleven hours battle and all the way down to a dead even heads-up battle between Vadim Markushevsky and Vadim Kursevich. In preference to fight a prolonged battle, both players moved all-in at the first hand of play. Markushevsky held ace-seven to Kursevich's king-queen. Kursevich spiked two pair at the flop and hung on to win the championship.

Kursevich walked away with the $63,123 first prize, well enough to shop for him into the following event at the tour. That tournament will find RPT players headed south to Egypt to play within the Sharm El Shaikh event in two weeks.

Congratulations to Kursevich, and good luck to all of the players in Egypt.

Read More... [Source: PokerStarsBlog.com :: Russian Poker Tour]