How They Are Stacking Up
Meanwhile, Arnaud Mattern and Raoul Refos both are nearing 60,000. Artem Litvinov did decide to get that massage. And it appears to have had good effect, as he now has close to 50,000 chips.
Wendy Mokowsky -- the only woman among our starting group of 129 today -- has spent most the day just above or below the starting stack of 30,000. She has 28,500 at the moment.
And Alex Kravchenko and Miami John Cernuto have both been active throughout the day, but each presently sits below 25,000.
There are 115 players remaining.
. It checked to Ziv who bet 10,000, then Demidenko check-raised to 20,000. Mazunin got out, and Ziv quickly called.
, and both players quickly checked. The river was the 
. Demidenko paused a bit then checked, and an exhaling Ziv checked as well.
for a set, but Demidenko turned over 
for a better one. Demidenko moves up over 150,000 with that one, while Ziv still has a big stack of 125,000. Mazunin, meanwhile, is sitting with 25,500.
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, but he would soon find out that he was in bad shape as Noykin tabled 
.
to give both men their sets. With Green drawing to only the case king, the turn and river brought the useless 
and 
respectively. With his triple aces, Noykin had notched himself a double up to 57,000.
, Karpus Dmitrovich checked from the small blind, and a short-stacked Menno Mulder bet 3,000 from the cutoff. Dmitrovich then quickly announced he was all in. Mulder had just a little over 10,000 behind, and so went into the tank. He eyed Dmitrovich momentarily, then finally decided to make the call.
for a couple of overcards, and Mulder 
. The turn brought the 
, giving Mulder a set but Dmitrovich a flush draw. The river was the 
. After a long disgusted shake of the head, Mattern flung his cards into the muck, dropping down to about 51,000.