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Vaitekunas With the First Five-Bet
Level 4
: Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
Paulius Vaitekunas raised to 6,000 from under the gun before Thomas Alfred Mayer three-bet the cutoff to 18,000. Artur Martirosian, while having his neck soothed by a massage, looked up at the table, saw the action in front of him and decided three bets simply weren't enough, so he four-bet to 45,000 from the big blind.
Vaitekunas came back with the first five-bet of the day, making it a cool 100,000 to go. That was finally enough to bring the raising contest to an end, as Mayer and Martirosian let it go.
Mayer pleaded with Vaitekunas to show one, but he wasn't feeling quite that generous. Instead, Vaitekunas quietly collected over twenty big blinds without the dealer ever needing to spread a flop.