Alex Muscarella Doubles Thru Grigoriy Shvarts

Photo:  Alex Muscarella

A player raises under the gun to 18,000, and five more players call. Grigoriy Shvarts reraises from the big blind to 108,000, and the next four players to act fold.

Alex Muscarella uses two Time Chips to tank for more than a minute on the button before he calls, and then Eric Panayiotou folds the small blind. It’s now heads-up to the flop.

The flop comes , Shvarts checks, Muscarella moves all in for 268,000, and Shvarts calls with . But Muscarella turns over for a set of sixes, and he needs his hand to hold to stay alive.

The turn card is the , the river card is the , and Muscarella turns a full house, sixes full of nines, to win the pot and double up in chips.

Alex Muscarella  –  850,000  (106 bb)
Grigoriy Shvarts  –  564,000  (71 bb)