€5,000 EPT Kyiv Main Event Day 4 | 2009 PokerStars.net EPT Kyiv

Level: 18

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 500

08-22-2009 13:31 UTC+3

Break it Up

[user66118]

The clock has been paused while the remaining 28 players take a 15-minute break.

08-22-2009 13:31 UTC+3

Deuce Saves Dubinsky

Shamus

Shortly after that hand with Torsten Tent, Igor Dubinsky pushed all in for his last 49,500, and Nikita Lebedov called from the small blind.

Lebedov turned over {A-Diamonds}

, and Dubinsky {A-Clubs}

. The flop was {8-Clubs}

and turn

, and Dubinsky looked ready to leave. But the river brought the {2-Diamonds}

, saving Dubinsky and giving him the pot.

Dubinsky will come back from the break with a little over 100,000. Lebedov is sitting with 415,000.

08-22-2009 13:27 UTC+3

Aces Serve Tent, Push Him Into Chip Lead

Shamus

Torsten Tent raised to 16,500 from middle position, and it folded to Oleksander Vaserfier who reraised to 72,000 from the big blind. Tent thought a bit, and folded.

On the very next hand, Tent raised again, this time to 16,000. It folded to Igor Dubinsky who reraised to 40,500 from the small blind. The big blind folded, then Tent reraised to 190,000. Dubinsky quickly announced he was all in, and Tent just as quickly called.

Dubinsky {J-Hearts}

Tent

The board ran out {5-Clubs}

, and Tent had doubled way up to 890,000. Meanwhile, Dubinsky falls way down below 90,000.

Tags: Igor Dubinsky Torsten Tent

08-22-2009 13:24 UTC+3

Anatoly Zharnitsky Eliminated in 29th Place (€8,600)

[user66118]

Max Lykov came in raising to 16,000 before Anatoly Zharnitsky moved all in for about 85,000 total. Lykov instantly called with {Q-Hearts}

, in good shape to knock out his opponent and his {A-Spades}

.

When the board ran out {8-Diamonds}

, he did just that, sending Zharnitsky off to the rail in 29th place. That effort is good for a €8,600 payday to the highest-finishing Canadian in this event.

Tags: Anatoly Zharnitsky Max Lykov

08-22-2009 13:17 UTC+3

Menno Mulder Eliminated in 30th Place (€8,600)

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Iliya Gorodetskiy opened with a raise to 16,000, and Menno Mulder moved all in for about 45,000 total. When it came back to Gorodetskiy, he quickly made the call to put his opponent at risk.

Showdown
Gorodetskiy: {9-Clubs}

Mulder:

The flop was no help to Mulder as it came {7-Hearts}

. He would pair up on the turn, but it was the worst card in the deck as the {J-Hearts}

gave Gorodetskiy the straight with the flush draw to go along. A blank {5-Spades}

on the river was all she wrote for Menno Mulder, ending his day in 30th place. Mulder did well this week, turning an online satellite entry into a respectable €8,600.

Tags: Iliya Gorodetskiy Menno Mulder

08-22-2009 13:08 UTC+3

Fitzgerald Makes Them Fold

Shamus

Jonas Kronwitter raised before the flop to 16,000 and got two callers in Anatoly Zharnitsky and Alex Fitzgerald. The flop came {2-Spades}

. Kronwitter made a continuation bet, Zharnitsky raised to 50,000, then Fitzgerald pushed all in for 189,000 total.

Kronwitter went deep into the tank, then folded. Then Zharnitsky folded as well. Fitzgerald exhaled deeply, clearly glad to see the hand end there.

08-22-2009 13:01 UTC+3

Artem Litvinov Eliminated in 32nd Place (€8,600); Michele Limongi Eliminated in 31st Place (€8,600)

Shamus

After being crippled in that earlier hand versus Torsten Tent, Michele Limongi pushed all in from early position with his last 31,500. Nikita Lebedov called from the hijack seat, then Artem Litvinov called all in with his last 21,500 from the button. The blinds got out, and the players' cards were revealed.

Limongi {A-Diamonds}

Lebedov

Litvinov

The flop was {K-Hearts}

and turn

, at which point Litvinov's tens were still best. But the river brought the {9-Hearts}

, giving the big stack Lebedeov the heart flush and knocking out two players at once.

Both Limongi and Litvinov earn €8,600, with Limongi fishing a spot higher because he had more chips than Litvinov before that hand began. Lebedov is now up to 395,000.

08-22-2009 12:51 UTC+3

Get Yer Doubles

[user66118]

We just had three simultaneous all-in-and-call situations, one on each of the tables down on the main floor.

*****

First, Torsten Tent opened with a raise to 16,000 before Michele Limongi re-raised to 79,000. Tent quickly moved all in, and Limongi tanked for a few minutes and called.

Tent tabled {J-Hearts}

, in good shape versus the {9-Diamonds}

of Limongi. The board ran out {2-Spades}

to hold his overpair, doubling him up and leaving Limongi with just over 20,000 left to play with.

*****

Andrew Malott and Michael Meyburg got it all in on a flop showing {3-Spades}

. Neither player had a pair as Malott showed {A-Hearts}

to Meyburg's {2-Clubs}

. The

on the turn secured the double up for Malott with the nut flush, drawing a big fist pump from the gregarious Malott.

*****

In a battle of the blinds, two men saw a flop come down {K-Spades}

. Joram Voelklein checked, allowing Alexander Dovzhenko to bet 30,000 before check-raising all in. Dovzhenko quickly called, turning over {K-Diamonds}

. Voelklein was drawing to the flush as he showed {J-Spades}

. A blank

on the turn and {9-Diamonds}

on the river failed to get him there, and he will double up the big blind.

That's three all ins, three double ups out there on the side tables.

08-22-2009 12:43 UTC+3

Poker Transcends Language Barriers

Shamus

We've seen several all-ins here in the early going, though no takers so far. Nikita Nikolaev, Menno Mulder, and Igor Dubinsky have all made all-in shoves here in the early going, but none elicited a call.

In Dubinsky's hand, he was reraising from the big blind after Andrew Malott had opened with a raise from the cutoff.

"All in," said Dubinsky. "So you do know English," said Malott. Dubinsky explained (in Ukrainian) that he knew three terms: "'Call', 'All in', and 'Raise'".

"The universal language of poker," laughed Malott as he folded.