Vitalijs Zavorotnijs Eliminated by Jeremy Becker and Maurice Hawkins

Photo:  Jeremy Becker (left) and Maurice Hawkins

WPT Champion Vitalijs Zavorotnijs raises under the gun to 900, Jeremy Becker calls from the cutoff, and Maurice Hawkins reraises from the button to 4,400. Zavorotnijs tanks for a while before he reraises to 30,000.

Becker five-bets all in for 89,500, and Hawkins calls all in for 29,400. Zavorotnijs also calls all in for less than Becker, and all three players turn over their cards.

Jeremy Becker:  
Vitalijs Zavorotnijs:  
Maurice Hawkins:  

The board comes , and Becker and Hawkins spike a king on the river to chop the main pot with a pair of kings. Becker wins the side pot to eliminate Zavorotnijs.

Jeremy Becker  –  152,500  (381 bb)
Maurice Hawkins  –  44,500  (111 bb)
Vitalijs Zavorotnijs  –  Eliminated