Ilya Bulychev got his short stack into the middle before the flop with , and he seemed content to be racing for double or nothing against Allen Bari and his .
Well, he was content initially anyways. The dealer failed to provide him any salvation though, running out a board of . Unable to catch a pair, Bulychev is outta here.
Bari is flirting with 400,000 chips now, giving him a top-three stack with 26 players left.
We picked up the action just as the dealer was running out a flop of , and we can infer that Chad Brown was the preflop raiser in position. After Allen Bari checked, Brown stuck out a continuation bet of 15,000, and Bari came along with the call.
Fourth street brought the , and Bari knocked the table again. There would be no check-call this time though. When Brown fired 25,000 more chips, Bari shoved all in on a check-raise. Brown thought it over for a minute before sending his cards muckward,
Allen Bari opened the pot with a small raise, and Tom Marchese made the call a couple seats over. Next to Marchese, Team PokerStars Pro William Thorson moved all in for about 70,000 total. That was enough to get Bari out of the way, but Marchese quickly called the remainder to put Thorson at risk.
Showdown
Marchese:
Thorson:
The flop was , and Thorson sunk in his chair, clearly nervous at what was about to unfold. The turn was safe and clean, but the on the river was an ugly way for him to make a set of aces. The fourth heart gave Marchese the flush, and Thorson slowly stood and made his exit.
Marchese appeared to be a little pained by that turn of events, but the table consoled him as he stacked that pot. "Don't worry," someone said. "You'll get over it."
Marchese's new stack of 355,000 should help ease his regrets a tad.
Peter Jetten moved all-in preflop and was called by Matt Marafioti.
Marafioti showed kings versus Jetten's .
The board rolled out and Jetten was crippled. When Marafioti was done stacking his chips, he threw up the double finger-pistols and said, "Cowboys."
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Shortly after Jetten moved all-in and was called by Sorel Mizzi. Jetten showed ace-jack and was dominated by Mizzi's ace-queen. The board was no help, and Jetten made his exit.
The 31 players who remain are back in their chairs and ready for another two levels of poker. We figure it'll take about ten or eleven levels of action today to play our way down to the final table. Maybe twelve.
Alexander Kravchenko moved all-in preflop for his remaining chips, about 20,000, and was called by Ilya Bulychev.
Kravchenko showed and Bulychev showed kings.
When the flop hit the felt, Kravchenko had started to push his chair back and get up. He was out of his seat when the fell on the turn, but when the came off on the river, the Team PokerStars Pro sat back down and collected his chips. He now has around 42,000.
Richard Lyndaker made it 7,100 to go before Alexander Kravchenko bumped it up to 19,400. Lyndaker moved all-in and Kravchenko made the call after taking a moment to think.
Lyndaker:
Kravchenko:
The board came down and Kravchenko was bumped down to about 22,000.