Tulchinskiy Running Cold, Getting Hot

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Level 20 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

We picked up the action on fourth street, heads-up between John Monnette and Mikhail Tulchinskiy.

Monnette: ( {8-} {2-} ) / {4-} {5-} {3-} {10-} / (X)
Tulchinskiy: ( {6-} {5-} ) / {a-} {3-} {8-} {k-} / (X)

Tulchinskiy bet on fourth street, and Monnette raised it up. On fifth, Monnette led right back out, and Tulchinskiy raised it again. Monnette reraised for the last 7,000 chips he had behind, and the cards were shown up with Tulchinskiy's eight-six being second-best. Monnette had run down an eight-five, and Tulchinskiy threw his arms up in the air and started cursing his luck in machine-gun Russian. He pulled king-ace on the last two streets, no help. Monnette drew ten-nine, and he didn't need any help.

After granting that double up, Tulchinskiy was left with just 6,500 lonely chips. He was all in as the bring-in on the next hand, and he ran pretty poorly once again. His board came {K-} {6-} / {j-} {a-} {8-} {8-} / {6-} to make an ugly king-low for his tournament life. Fortunately for him, his opponent Tommy Chen drew just as poorly, running out an even uglier {9-} {2-} / {10-} {k-} {q-} {10-} / {2-} board to keep Tulchinskiy in the game with about 30,000.