Puchkov Leaves Hellmuth Short

Ryan Lashmar

Level 14

Limit Flop/Draw: 4,000/8,000, 8,000-16,000 Limits
Stud Games: 2,000 Ante, 2,000 Bring-In, 8,000 Completion 8,000-16,000 Limits
No-Limit & Pot-Limit: 4,000/6,000 Ante, 2,000/4,000 Blinds

No-Limit Hold'em

With two players seeing a board of 10?8?5? and about 25,000 in the middle Phil Hellmuth checked from the small blind, Konstantin Puchkov bet 10,000 from under the gun and Hellmuth called.

Hellmuth check-called another bet from Puchkov on the A? turn, once again for 10,000.

On the J? river Hellmuth checked once more and Puchkov sized up with a bet of 50,000. Hellmuth went into the tank for about a minute before making the call.

Puchkov tabled a set with 10?10?.

"I turned aces up. Almost got away from it" Hellmuth commented, showing A?8? before Puchkov took the pot.