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Ylon Schwartz has the button in Seat 3. Ivan Demidov completes the small blind and Peter Eastgate checks his big blind option for a heads-up battle of the blinds.
The flop comes . Demidov checks it over to the aggressive Eastgate, who lives up to his reputation with a bet of 850,000. Demidov elects to take one off and calls to the on the turn. Both players quickly check. The river card is the . Demidov seizes the initiative with a bet of 1.625 million. Eastgate emphatically raises him to 5.5 million total.
Demidov looks pained, similar to the hand where he called Dennis Phillips' 5-million chip bet on a board of K-3-3-7-K. But he hasn't released his hand yet, perhaps working through all of the action in his head. This time he doesn't call the river bet. Instead he folds.
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Peter Eastgate has the button in Seat 9. Dennis Phillips, sitting in the small blind, is the first into the pot with a raise to 1.55 million. Ylon Schwartz reraises Phillips to 5.25 million, once again putting a third of his stack into the pot before the flop. Phillips attempts to stare him down, but getting no information, elects to fold.
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Ylon Schwartz has the button in Seat 3. Action folds to Ivan Demidov in the small blind, who raises to 1.325 million. He wins the pot when Peter Eastgate folds.
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Peter Eastgate has the button in Seat 9. He limps in after Ivan Demidov folds. Dennis Phillips completes the small blind and Ylon Schwartz checks. Three players take a flop of . Phillips and Schwartz both check to Eastgate, who bets 1.1 million. Phillips and Schwartz each releases his hand in turn.
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D-E-N-N-I-S!
Ivan Demidov has the button in Seat 7. He raises to 1,525,000 and Dennis Phillips calls from the big blind.
The flop is . Phillips checks the action to Demidov, who bets 2,125,000. Phillips slides out a stack of cream-colored 250,000-denomination chips, reraising to 5,000,000. Demidov gives up his hand and Phillips takes it down, the Phillipians roaring in approval.