Timely Double for Solaas
Level 16
: 4,000/8,000, 0 ante
Just as he was getting short Espen Solaas managed to find a double courtesy of Dzmitry Urbanovich.
It was Solaas who started the action with a raise to 28,000 from the button and after Raj Ramakrishnan got out of the way Urbanovich and Solaas got into a brief raising war with all the chips going in preflop. With the short stack of 98,000 it was Solaas who was the at risk player and he would need to hit the flop hard to avoid elimination.
Espen Solaas: 
Dzmitry Urbanovich: 
Urbanovich's pair of kings were in front preflop and on the flop of 
but Solaas had all kinds of outs and duly hit one of them when the 
landed on the turn to give him trips. The 
river ended the hand and saw Solaas scoop the pot to draw back level in chips with Urbanovich.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
196,000
-54,000
|
-54,000 |
|
||
|
195,000
74,000
|
74,000 |