Ramakrishnan Doubles Through Solaas
A huge hand played out between Espen Solaas and Raj Ramkrishnan with the latter managing to bag a double up through the Norwegian player to snatch the chip lead.
Preflop it was Solaas who was the aggressor, opening to 20,000 from the button. Ramakrishnan made the call from teh small blind and Dzmitry Urbanovich got out of the way to take play heads-up to a flop of 
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First to act Ramakrishnan announced a pot-sized bet of 48,000. Solaas looked over at his opponent and slid it two towers of dark blue 5k chips to put Ramakrishnan all-in. Ramakrishnan called instantly and the cards were turned over.
Raj Ramakrishnan: 
Espen Solaas: 
Ramakrishnan was in front with middle set and stayed that way when the turn and river came down a diamond-less 
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to grant him the double and the chip lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
476,000 | 210,000 |
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195,000 | -245,000 |