Big Pairs Do Their Thing for the Eastern Bloc
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
against an opponent's 
. She shook her head bitterly when the flop came 
; the turn 
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.