€5,000 EPT Kyiv Main Event | 2009 PokerStars.net EPT Kyiv

08-23-2009 16:56 UTC+2

Glasnost in Kyiv

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Take an excursion with PokerNews' Gloria Balding as she takes in a few of the sites here in the Ukrainian capital.

08-23-2009 16:51 UTC+2

Four Bets to Lykov

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Alexander Dovzhenko opened the pot with a raise to 135,000 under the gun, and three players folded around to Max Lykov in the big blind. He smoothly slid out a re-raise to 375,000, drawing a near-instantaneous all in from Dovzhenko. Lykov raised his eyebrows and quickly folded his cards to that four-bet all in.

08-23-2009 16:47 UTC+2

Three Bets to Plichta

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Lucasz Plichta open-raised to 170,000, and the action came around to Vitaly Tolokonnikov in the big blind. He asked for a count of his opponent's remaining chips before announcing an all in with the covering stack.

Plichta would frown once or twice, not wasting much time returning his cards to the muck.

08-23-2009 16:39 UTC+2

Dovzhenko Still Leads, Simonyan Still Short

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The pots have been small-to-medium over the last few orbits, but chips are moving. Maxim Lykov continues to be the most active player, putting in preflop raises most frequently and generally being there to call or raise when someone else tries to take a pot before the flop.

Alexander Dovzhenko continues to maintain the chip lead, a position he assumed about four-and-a-half hours ago after taking that huge pot in which he eliminated Vadim Markushevski in 8th place.

Dovzhenko now has 3.275 million, Vitaly Tolokonnikov and Maxim Lykov are both close to 2 million, Lucasz Plichta has nearly 1.1 million, and Arthur Simonyan is still the short stack with 615,000.

08-23-2009 16:23 UTC+2

Tolokonnikov Takes a Small One

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It folded to Vitaly Tolokonnikov on the button who raised to 130,000, and only Arthur Simonyan called from the big blind.

The flop came {7-Diamonds}

. Simonyan checked, and Tolokonnikov bet 150,000. After a short pause, Simonyan let it go.

Simonyan has 1.08 million -- still the short stack at the moment. Tolokonnikov has 1.605 million.

08-23-2009 16:20 UTC+2

Presto for Plichta

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Maxim Lykov open-raised to 135,000 from middle position, and he got action from big blind Lucasz Plichta who put in the call.

Heads-up, the flop came out {7-Diamonds}

, and both players checked. The turn {4-Clubs}

drew another check from Plichta followed by a bet of 155,000 from Lykov. Plichta quickly called, and the river was the {J-Spades}

. Both players checked the action again, and Plichta tabled {5-?}

for the baby pair. It was the winner; Lykov released his cards into the muck, sending the pot over to his opponent.

Tags: Lucasz Plichta Maxim Lykov

08-23-2009 16:15 UTC+2

Updated Chip Counts

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At the start of Level 27...

Alexander Dovzhenko -- 3.415 million
Maxim Lykov -- 1.835 million
Vitaly Tolokonnikov -- 1.48 million
Lucasz Plichta -- 1.16 million
Arthur Simonyan -- 1.05 million

08-23-2009 16:13 UTC+2

Play Resumes

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We're back in action five-handed.

Level: 27

Blinds: 30,000/60,000

Ante: 5,000

08-23-2009 16:01 UTC+2

Break Time, 100 Hands In

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We've crossed the century mark here as the players have just now finished up the one hundredth hand of the final table.

Alexander Dovzhenko limped in from the small blind before big blind Vitaly Tolokonnikov raised to 150,000. That was enough to quickly fold Dovzhenko as the players stood up for their end-of-level break. Tolokonnikov flashed {A-?}

, incidentally.

With that, the five men are on a ten-minute break.