2017 PokerStars Championship Sochi

Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
2017 PokerStars Championship Sochi
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a6
Prize
21,900,000 RUB
Event Info
Buy-in
318,000 RUB
Prize Pool
150,000,000 RUB
Total Entries
387
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 387

Tupalo Taps Into Aces

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Mikalai Vaskaboinikau defended his big blind against a button raise by Pavel Shirshikov. By the time the river had come and showed {K-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}{5-Spades}{J-Hearts}{9-Spades}, Vaskaboinikau bet 21,000 for one third of his remaining stack. Shirshikov called and mucked when he was shown {Q-Spades}{10-Hearts} for a straight by Vaskaboinikau.

Close to the money the all in spots usually involve a very tight range of hands and it was no surprise to see two premium hands clash one table over. Anton Gilivov was the initial raiser from under the gun and Kostiantyn Tupalo gave him some action. Ultimately it was Tupalo who ended up at risk for more than 100,000 and soon found out that he'd tapped into a cooler.

Anton Gilivov: {A-Clubs}{A-Hearts}
Kostiantyn Tupalo: {K-Diamonds}{K-Clubs}

The board came {10-Hearts}{5-Clubs}{4-Diamonds}{3-Clubs}{8-Hearts} and Tupalo was done and dusted.

Tags: Anton GililovKostiantyn TupaloMikalai VaskaboinikauPavel Shirshikov