Hands #40-44: Helppi Getting Real Short

Hand 40: Leon Tsoukernik, under the gun with , counted out his chips for everyone to hear. "One million, two million,...", prompting a big smile by Carrel. He then raised to 310,000 and took down the blinds of antes.

Hand 41: Tsoukernik received a walk in the big blind with .

Hand 42: Juha Helppi woke up with a real hand on the button, and raised all-in for 940,000. Both blinds folded.

Hand 43: Juha Helppi, this time under the gun with , folded. Leon Tsoukernik with the wasn't following suit and raised to 325,000. Charlie Carrel called with in the small blind. Viacheslav Buldygin folded .

"How much money do you have?" Tsoukernik asked.

"That's a very personal question," Carrel said with a big smile.

"In front of you..." Tsoukernik clarified.

The flop came and Carrel check-folded to Tsoukernik's 325,000-bet.

"Good fold" Tsoukernik said while taking a bite from his banana, showing his cards not much later.

Hand 44: Under the gun, Tsoukernik limped in with the . Big blind Juha Helppi with took a free flop of . Helppi checked and then raised Tsoukernik's 250,000-bet to 500,000.