Hands #64-67: Mathieu Goncalves Damages Kostya Zaks

Hand #64 – Hugues Girard completes in the small blind with . Oleksii Ievchenko checks in the big blind with .

On the , Girard leads with a bet of 250,000, and Ievchenko folds.

Hand #65 – Oleksii Ievchenko completes in the small blind with . Mathieu Goncalves checks his option with .

The flop is checked through, as is the turn.

The river completes the board, and Ievchenko fires out a bet of 350,000, which Goncalves calls. Ievchenko takes the pot with a pair of eights versus a pair of fives.

Oleksii Ievchenko – 6,000,000 (24 bb)
Mathieu Goncalves – 7,400,000 (29 bb)

Hand #66 – Hugues Girard opens to 750,000 from the cutoff with , but gets no action.

Hand #67 – Kostya Zaks opens to 700,000 from early position with and is called by Mathieu Goncalves on the button with .

The flop comes and Zaks continues with a bet of 300,000. Goncalves calls.

The hits on the turn, and Zaks fires out a bet of 900,000. Again Goncalves calls.

The river completes the board. Zaks takes some time for thought before putting out a bet of 1,500,000. Goncalves just calls and takes a chunky pot, which perhaps could have been more.

Mathieu Goncalves – 11,000,000 (44 bb)
Kostya Zaks – 8,500,000 (34 bb)