Brown Three-Bets Konakchiev
Level 17
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Valentino Konakchiev opened to 6,000 from the button and Terik Brown quickly made it 21,000 to go from the small blind. The big blind folded and Konakchiev followed suit.
Konakchiev, a Bulgarian national, has a number of impressive cashes to his name from European-based tournaments, but this is his first cash on U.S. soil and his first at a World Series of Poker. His largest cash weighs in at slightly more than $62,000 and if he wants to beat that impressive sum — and why would he not want to — he is going to have to finish fifth or better in this event.