[user75032]
It's a rule of poker tournament reporting that you always root for the big stack. It's nothing personal; just that if the short stacks win it makes for a longer work day. Thus it is with some selfish disappointment that we report on two recent double-ups. Both times, the short-stacked player got his chips in good.
On Table 4, Vadim Shlez opened from the button for 55,000, a raise that was re-raised all in for 213,000 by the non-bed-headed Roger Hairabedian. Shlez called with and grimaced when he saw Hairabedian's . A queen on the flop pretty much sealed this one for Hairabedian, doubling him up to 450,000.
On Table 2, the short stack was Mikhail Tulchinskiy, and the player trying to knock him out was Pieter De Korver. Tulchinskiy had the best possible hand, ; he was up against De Korver's , a hand that was drawing dead by the turn after Tulchinkiy flopped a third ace and paired the board on the turn.
Tulchinskiy's stack was counted down at 349,000. You can double that now.