Vuoksenmaa in the Lead; Xanthopoulos Thriving
Level 4
: 200/400, 50 ante
There are several players that already doubled their stacks with around one dozen participants on the rail, and one of them is Pavlos Xanthopoulos. He just faced a raise to 800 by Markus Heikkila and three-bet to 2,500 from two seats over. Heikkila called and the flop fell 
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Heikkila checked, Xanthopoulos bet 2,100 and that was the end of the hand. That moved Xanthopoulos up to around 57,000, but the Greek is trailing the current leader Jorma Vuoksenmaa with more than three times the starting stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
80,000
80,000
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80,000 |
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57,000
57,000
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57,000 |
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28,000
28,000
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28,000 |
. The action checked to Grafton and his continuation bet of 1,800 was called.
on the turn, it was again checked to Grafton and he shoved for around 16,000. Carvalho called and Lindberg folded.
on the river changed nothing and Grafton has been eliminated.
the action checked to Dan Murariu and he bet 1,300. Only Kristi Kirs in the big blind called and the 
on the turn went check, check. After the 
on the river, Kirs bet 3,000 and Murariu raised to 6,000. Kirs eventually folded 
face-up and Murariu was kind enough to reveal the 
, Denis Ioan Poteras bet 2,500 and his sole opponent Mark Rink called from a few seats over. On the 
appeared on the river. Poteras bet 7,000 and that was enough to force a fold from Rink.
. Ciuciuc was at risk for 19,575 with the 
and stood up from his chair, ready to leave. That was until the flop came 
turn and the 
river changed nothing anymore and Ciuciuc doubled.
, four players all invested 500 chips each and the 
on the river then completed the board and Murariu bet 4,600.