One Teams PokerStar Pro Doubles Up; One Goes Home

It was a similar tale with different endings for Alexander Kravchenko and Chad Brown. Both Team PokerStars Pros found themselves getting short, with 6,475 chips and 2,000 chips respectively. Action folded to both in late position, and both raised. In Kravchenko's case, he made a standard open for 850 and then called after his opponent put him all in from the big blind. Brown simply open-raised all in.

"You had to do it on my blind, didn't you?" the big blind asked.

"It's just when the cards come," replied Brown. His opponent decided he needed chips almost as badly as Brown, and he made the call.

At Kravchenko's table, his {j-Diamonds}