Levy Soars to 500K

Grant Levy has recently eliminated two players in back-to-back hands to move to about 500,000 in chips.

The first hand saw Rajkumar Ramakrishnan open with a raise to 11,500 from late position. Levy made the call from the big blind. The flop came {9-Spades}

-- gin for Levy, who was sitting with pocket nines -- and he and Ramakrishnan traded raises until all 80,000 of Ramakrishnan's found its way into the middle. At the showdown, Ramakrishnan tabled {A-Diamonds}

and the turn and river ran out {4-Diamonds}

, cementing the hand for Levy.

One hand later, Augusto Silva moved all in from the button for his last 34,900 and was called by Levy in the small blind. At the showdown, Silva's {A-Hearts}