2009 PokerStars.net EPT Kyiv
€5,000 EPT Kyiv Main Event
Day: 3
Level: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 400
Let's Play Poker
After a manic first level today (Level 13), in which 17 players were eliminated, the pace slowed somewhat in Level 14 when we lost just five.
Chip Leaders
Maxim Lykov -- 504,000
Vitaly Tolokonnikov -- 452,000
Jonas Kronwitter -- 420,000
Kirill Boydachenko -- 374,000
Joram Voelklein -- 356,000
Adrian Schaap -- 300,000
Michael Jurgen Meyburg -- 300,000
Anatoly Zharnitsky -- 290,000
Vyacheslav Rotach -- 286,000
Slowing Down
Who's going to be the bubble boy?
Nikita Not Little
Sungatullin slips to 145,000, while Nikolaev now has 320,000.
Lykov Likes Flop
Lykov pushes closer to chip leader Michele Limongi. Lykov now has 675,000. Meanwhile Vyacheslav slips to 136,000.
44 Remain
Two More Down
Bubble Doubles
The board would run out 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.
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Simultaneously on an adjacent table, Ilya Gorodetskiy moved all in for about 40,000 after a raise from Michele Limongi. He called with , and Gorodetskiy was in fine shape to double with .
"You could still lose," reminded Limongi, but his words would fail to come to fruition. The board came out to double up another of the short stacks.
Forty-two players remain, and if we keep doubling the shorties, the bubble could last quite a while.