Eugene Katchalov 9th ($130,735)
by Court on 04.24.09, 8:03 pm
Ran Azor showed his willingness to fold big hands earlier when he tossed pocket kings preflop, but when Eugene Katchalov moved in for 1,185,000 he made the call with the A
K and was ahead of Katcholov’s J7 and stayed that way on the Q-T-5-J-3 board. Eugene made a pair on the turn, but the jack also gave Azor the straight and a lock on the hand.
For his 9th place finish Katchalov (left) earns $130,735. For a while on day 4 it looked like Katchalov might run away with the tournament, but things change fast in poker and after a rough day 5 Katchalov never really got going here during the playdown day. He was in a tough spot with Shannon Shorr, Yevgeniy “Atimos” Timoshenko and Christian “charder” Harder on his right for todays play.
Brian “tsarrast” Rast was able to get a double up through Harder to avoid being the 8th place finisher when his pocket deuces held up against the AK of harder on a 9-7-4-J-6 board. Rast was up to almost 2.5 million after the hand.
Chip Counts:
Christian “charder” Harder - 8 million
Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier - 6 million
Scotty Nguyen - 4.7 million
Ran Azor - 3.5 million
Yevgeniy “Atimos” Timoshenko - 3.5 million
Shannon Shorr - 3.2 million
Brian “tsarrast” Rast - 2.4 million
Justin Young - 1.2 million
