Koltsov began his day by losing a 4-2 lead which was overturned by Andy Jenkins who claimed a 5-4 victory over the Russian. But he immediately returned to see off Keelan Kay 5-1 with a 96 average, 5/6 on the doubles and a 130 checkout en route to fully begin his campaign.
He followed that up with a 5-2 win over in-form Mark Webster hitting two ton-plus checkouts to move onto four points.
Keelan Kay is also on four points taking in victories over Andy Jenkins 5-3 and Jason Askew 5-3 with his only blemish on his record being that defeat to Koltsov.
Andy Jenkins has an intermittent record so far with two wins and two defeats from his four games so far while Jason Askew, Scott Mitchell and Mark Webster have only played one or two games so far.
There will be 15 games a day which will be best of 7 legs with two Pools set to be involved as usual. It begins everyday as a result at 10:30 am running till 5:00 pm and sees live action continue.
The scores are recorded during matches via a webcam with this then uploaded to various scoring services and bookmakers who are all showing the action. The livestream is provided by organiser MODUS .
Andy Jenkins (87.78) 3-5 (97.29) Keelan Kay
Boris Koltsov (93.2) 4-5 (92.37) Andy Jenkins
Keelan Kay (78) 1-5 (96.34) Boris Koltsov
Scott Mitchell (85.83) 3-5 (89.12) Andy Jenkins
Jason Askew (92.04) 3-5 (89.65) Keelan Kay
Mark Webster (86.83) 2-5 (94.1) Boris Koltsov
Andy Jenkins (88.82) 2-5 (93.75) Jason Askew
Keelan Kay v Mark Webster
Boris Koltsov v Scott Mitchell
Mark Webster v Andy Jenkins
Scott Mitchell v Keelan Kay
Jason Askew v Boris Koltsov
Scott Mitchell v Mark Webster
Jason Askew v Scott Mitchell
Mark Webster v Jason Askew