Kravchenko Doubles Up Carson
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante
Last year's runner-up in this event, Russell Carson has been handed a lifeline from an unlikely source, Team PokerStars Pro Alexander Kravchenko.
Kravchenko raised first in on the button to 15,000 and when the small blind folded, Carson moved all in for a total of 76,500. Kravchenko counted out the chips required to call, then put them back into a single tower. He then counted them out again, put them back into the same tower but this time moved them into the middle of the table and made the call.
Kravchenko:
Carson:
Board:
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Kravchenko was drawing extremely thinly on the flop and dead by the turn. However, he still has circa 300,000 in his stack whilst Carson climbs to 170,000