Passing The Chips Around
Alex Kravchenko raised UTG to 2,500 before Stuart Rutter popped it up to 7,500 with about 25,000 behind. The Russian mucked, score one for the UK.
A couple of hands later and Rutter opened to 2,800 from UTG, this time Kravchenko reraised to 7,800 from the small blind. Before Rutter could act though, Mika Paasonen tanked long and hard in the big blind before eventually folding while Rutter meekly mucked as well.
Afterwards, Passonen told Rutter he folded Jacks...
Rutter nodded, "Difficult with the stack sizes..."