04-30-2009 20:49 UTC+3

Big Pairs Do Their Thing for the Eastern Bloc

[user75032]

On one table, it was Alexander Kravchenko turning over pocket kings after just calling the turn and river of a jack-high board against his lone opponent, who turned over {Q-?}

{Q-?}

{J-?}

for a pair of jacks. Having his kings hold up gave Kravchenko enough chips to climb to 105,000.

A few tables over, Liya Gerasimova was all in with {Q-Diamonds}

{Q-Diamonds}

{Q-Hearts}

against an opponent's {A-Spades}

{A-Spades}

{K-Hearts}

. She shook her head bitterly when the flop came {4-Clubs}

{4-Clubs}

{K-Diamonds}

{2-Diamonds}

; the turn {Q-Spades}

{Q-Spades}

got a bit of a murmur out of the assembled on-lookers. The river blanked out to give Gerasimova a double-up to about 85,000.

Tags: Alexander Kravchenko Liya Gerasimova