We Have a Chip Leader
We're not sure who exactly is the chip leader, there's a lot of players and not many of them stack their chips in twenties. But it appears as Evgenii Starikov might be on top of them all, with about 145,000 in chips and towers of chips reaching till his chin.
We just saw Starikov eliminate a player. After opening himself, he called a shove from one of the shorter stacks on the table.
Starikov's opponent showed the 
with another card that looked like an ace underneath it. "Aces" smiled his opponent. It wasn't really. He slid the aside and revealed his other card to be the 
. Starikov now showed his 
, about the last hand his opponent wanted to see probably.
The 
made for a quick exit for Starikov's opponent. Though he had a miracle runner runner possibility to double up, he wouldn't be that lucky today. By the time the 
hit the turn, Starikov's opponent had already exited and the 
on the river was there just to make things official.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
145,000 |