Poker Gods Vit-Kind to Dmitry

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Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

Thorsten Schafer opened to 13,500 in early position and got a call from Florian Langmann to his immediate left before Dmitry Vitkind in the cutoff made it 36,500 to go. Schafer was tanking up when our attention was caught by a hand at another table; when we returned Schafer was counting out the chips to pay Vitkind his double up, so we are guessing that Schafer pushed and Vitkind called all in. Schafer was holding {a-} {q-} but it was no match for Vitkind's {a-} {a-} ; the board didn't help and Vitkind doubled to 380,000. Schafer's rollercoaster is on a downward spiral now - he was left with 265,000, a below average stack.