Smolka Fires Three Streets to Take Chip Lead
Level 19
: Blinds 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
The flop read 
. From the small blind Dawid Smolka bet 125,000 and was called by Andrey Litvinov who was in the cutoff to grow the pot to around 600,000.
The turn brought the 
to bring three to a royal flush. Smolka led for 400,000 and Litvinoc called after some thought to swell the pot to well over a million.
The river came a blank looking 
. Smolka used a time extension before putting together a bet of 1,200,000 and sliding the assortment of stacks forward.
Litvinov went into the tank and used up three time banks before eventually folding his hand to send a chunk of his stack over to the new chip leader.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,950,000 | 900,000 |
|
1,430,000 | -743,000 |