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Let’s Gamble
Level 16
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
With everyone in the money and a while to go until the money jumps there is a completely different atmosphere for the low to medium stacks. Certainly that’s how Mikhail Marchenko from Russia sees it as he opened for 10,500 in the small blind and called a raise to 21,500 from big blind fellow Russian Dmitry Ponomarev. The flop was 
and they both elected to check. Turn card 
elicited a check from Marchenko, a bet of 16,500 from Ponomarev and a check raise all-in from Marchenko. “Call. “ Said Ponomarev who turned over 
for a set but was behind to the turned straight of Marchenko who tabled 
. The river was the 
and Marchenko happily doubled up exclaiming “Before (the bubble) I’d fold.”