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Eugene Katchalov with chips is a very different proposition and he just pushed chip leader Sotirios Koutoupas off the best hand.

Pre-flop Harry Law made it 160,000 to go from the cut-off with , Katchalov called from the button with and Koutoupas did likewise from the big blind with .

On the flop it was checked to Katchalov, he took over the betting lead with a wager of 200,000 and Koutoupas was the only caller. On the turn Katchalov bet again, roughly half pot as he pushed 500,000 over the line. "He seems to know exactly where he's at," said Joe Stapleton in the booth. Koutoupas took a look back at his hand and ruefully threw it into the muck.