Yuriy Salikaev Left With Crumbs Before the Break

Aug 14, 2021

Yuriy Salikaev raises the button to 250,000 off a stack of 16 blinds with the Club ASpade 9. Maksim Skripkin comes along out of the small blind with the Diamond KClub J and they head to the Spade QHeart 10Diamond 6 flop. Skripkin checks his option and Salikaev makes it 200,000 to go, which his opponent calls.

The Club 9 on the turn improves Skripkin to the nuts and he checks once more, Salikaev checks back. What follows is the Heart 9 on the river, which gives Salikaev trips. Skripkin bets 800,000 and Salikaev immediately shakes his head, then calls.

He gets shown the bad news and drops to fewer than four big blinds. Right after, the remaining four players go on a scheduled 20-minute break.

Maksim Skripkin – 6,700,000 (67 bb)
Yuriy Salikaev – 400,000 (4 bb)

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