No Luck For Liya

Liya Gerasimova has been having a rough time of it. With 5,000 in the pot by the {9-Diamonds}

flop, Gerasimova bet 3,500, only for Vivek Rajkumar to raise all in. With only the briefest of pauses but an intense look of sadness, Gerasimova folded. As the cards are reshuffled, Steve Zolotow turns to me. "Did you see their hands?" I confess that I didn't, what with the awkwardness of players having heads and some of those heads obscuring my view. He informs me that Gerasimova was holding {J-?}

and Rajkumar the mighty {7-?}

.

The very next hand, Gerasimova raised from the button, only for a short-stacked Patrik Antonius to move all in from the small blind for 2,400. She called, and promptly doubled him up on a coinflip.

Gerasimova: {A-Hearts}