Aitky-Breaky Karmazinas
Disaster for Lithuania as one of their brightest hopes is extinguished.
Dominykas Karmazinas has had a great 2010 so far. He kicked it off with a sixth place finish in the High Roller event at EPT Berlin, and then went on to take third place in the EPT Grand Final and second place to William Thorson at the PokerStars Baltic Festival, as well as a decent Main Event cash at the WSOP and two side event final tables at EPT Tallinn.
But despite all these final tables, Karmazinas has never managed to go home with a winner's trophy. And he's not going to get one this week.
It looked as though Karmazinas had reraised out of the small blind to a raise from Adam Aitken and then called all in to Aitken's shove. Aitken flipped with an expression of perfect innocence on his face; Karmazinas let out an enormous sigh and turned over . A complete absence of any further queens on the board meant that Karmazinas was bust, and will have to wait at least until London for his first EPT title.
Nevertheless, we still have some fine representation for Lithuania in the field - Kristijonas Andrulis is on fine form after taking down two side events at EPT Tallinn including the High Roller event - and elsewhere we also have the admittedly unfamiliar but intriguing Tadas Peckaitis and Karolis Grybauskas.