Bubble Doubles

The superstitious Artem Litvinov opened with a raise, and Volodymyr Pilyavskyy re-raised enough to put his man all in. Litvinov eventually called, committing his final ~45,000 chips to the pot with {4-Spades}

. He would soon find out that he was racing for his tournament life against his opponent's {A-Hearts}

.

The board would run out {10-Hearts}

to hold Litvinov's pair and double him up. Those trip fours are good enough to move him up to just about 100,000 and save him from an untimely pre-bubble exit.

*****

Simultaneously on an adjacent table, Ilya Gorodetskiy moved all in for about 40,000 after a raise from Michele Limongi. He called with {A-Clubs}