Demidov on an Early Flight to St. Petersburg

Ivan Demidov's next stop after the 2009 Aussie Millions Poker Championship is the inaugural Russian Poker Tour event in St. Petersburg, Russia. He'll be able to push off a few days early thanks to David Docherty.

Docherty, you may remember, started the day with twelve big blinds in his stack. For him to even still be around at this stage of the tournament is quite a feat. Add to his list of feats "dispatched Ivan the Terrible, 2008 WSOP Main Event Runner-Up". There were 36,000 chips in the pot preflop when Team PokerNews member Will Zemljaric tapped our reporter and said, "This is going to be a big hand." He was right.

Docherty checked a {5-Clubs}

flop over to Demidov, who opened for 43,000. That bet left Demidov only 9,000 chips behind. Docherty responded by raising enough to put Demidov all in. He called.

Docherty: {10-Diamonds}

Demidov:

Demidov whiffed on the flop completely and seemed to just hope that he could buy the pot. Docherty was in the lead but had to sweat the turn and the river. His sweat was longer than normal, as the dealer had to wait so that a floor supervisor could be summoned to the table with a microphone to announce the action for the rail. The turn was a small card, the {3-Hearts}

. The river was the {9-Spades}

. With that river, a weary-looking Demidov got up from the table.

Docherty is now in the top fifteen in the counts. He has 220,000.

Tags: David Docherty Ivan Demidov