Hands #90-92: Double-Up for Kostya Zaks

Photo: Kostya Zaks

Hand #90 – Kostya Zaks raises to 750,000 from the small blind and Hugues Girard moves all-in for 21,000,000, and Zaks snaps for his 4,300,000 stack.

Kostya Zaks:
Hugues Girard:

Zaks is ahead and his double-up is confirmed by the runout.

Kostya Zaks – 8,900,000 (29 bb)
Hugues Girard – 17,000,000 (56 bb)

Hand #91 – Mathieu Goncalves opens to 600,000 from under the gun with and gets no action.

Hand #92 – Kostya Zaks opens to 600,000 from the cutoff with and Mathieu Goncalves defends the big blind with .

On the , Gonclaves check-folds versus a bet of 450,000 from Zaks. 

Kostya Zaks – 10,000,000 (33 bb)
Mathieu Goncalves – 13,000,000 (43 bb)

The players have been sent on a 15-minute break.