2009 PokerStars.net EPT Kyiv
€5,000 EPT Kyiv Main Event
Day: 4
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.net EPT Kyiv
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€4,700
Prize Pool
€1,391,200
Entries
296
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 296
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Both Vadim Markushevski and Maxim Lykov continue to sit atop the leaderboard with about 2 million, while Michael Meyburg and Lucasz Plichta are still the short stacks, each hovering around 300,000.
We've been nine-handed for nearly two hours now.
Maxim Lykov -- 1.934 million
Torsten Tent -- 1.428 million
Alexander Dovzhenko -- 1.289 million
Adrian Schaap -- 564,000
Arthur Simonyan -- 564,000
Vitaly Tolokonnikov -- 493,000
Michael Meyburg -- 312,000
Lucasz Plichta -- 259,000
. Action was on Torsten Tent, and he led out with a bet of 70,000. His lone opponent, Alexander Dovzhenko, put in the call to see the turn card bring the 
. Tent began stacking chips again, and he stuck out another healthy bet of 220,000. After a quick pause, Dovzhenko announced, "All in," and Tent immediately called for his own tournament life!Showdown
Tent:
Dovzhenko:
Dovzhenko had flopped bottom set, but the turn card gave Tent the nuts for the time being with the Broadway straight. He would need to dodge a board pair to stay alive, and the
that filled out the board was a safe card for him. That earns him a monster double up to 1,428,000, leapfrogging over Dovzhenko who has fallen to 1,289,000 now.
There were a few grumbles from the spectators as both players showed down the same hand, Dovzhenko's
to Tolokonnikov's 
. The flop brought 
and the promise of a chop as both players take their money back plus a few thousand extra.
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Level: 22
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 2,000
. It checked to Lykov who continued for 88,000, and only Markushevski called.The turn brought the
and both players checked. The river was the -- a third spade, and pairing the board, too. Markushevski bet 200,000, and Lykov quickly called.Markushevski showed a pair of tens, but was beat by Lykov's 7-6 which made him a straight. That one moves Lykov back up to 1.95 million, just ahead of Markushevski who drops to a little more than 1.9 million.
Showdown
Simonyan:
Tent:
The flop took away half of Tent's outs as it came
. Tent was looking for only the eight of spades to earn the knockout, but he wouldn't find it as the turn and river fell 
and 
respectively. Simonyan holds to tally his second double up at this nine-handed table, the latest of those vaulting him up to 664,000 and back into contention.He's now right on the heels of Torsten Tent who sits just on the high side of 700,000 in chips.
