Lebedev Gets it In There
Will Failla opened to 50,000, and he found calls from Tommy Vedes, Ryan Welch, and Guillaume Darcourt, the latter coming along from the button. In the small blind, Sergey Lebedev announced an all in, and he slid his 670,000 chips into the middle of the table. That folded the monkeys in the middle back to Welch, and he re-shoved over the top. Darcourt open-mucked his , and the cards were up with Lebedev at risk:
Welch:
Lebedev:
The flop came down , and Darcourt shot out of his seat and started mumbling machine gun French to his friends on the rail, gesturing wildly. The turn was a blank for Lebedev as well, putting him one card from elimination.
River:
"Yes!" Lebedev yelled, pumping his fist.
That's a hit, and he has found his pair to stay alive and double up. That puts Lebedev up around 1.5 million, while Welch falls back to 830,000.