Monday, March 7, 2016 9:54 PM Local Time
Barry Hutter Dents the Tower of Kurganov
Igor Kurganov opens the button to 25,000, and Barry Hutter three-bets to 94,000 in the big blind. Kurganov calls.
The flop comes , and Hutter continues for 73,000. Kurganov calls without much delay. The turn brings the and a check from both players, and the completes the board on the river. Hutter takes pause, then moves all in for about 270,000. Kurganov gives it just a cursory look, then folds.
It's not an enormous pot, but it's likely the largest one Kurganov has lost so far. He's still comfortably over a million chips despite that little dent, but Hutter has finally started to close the gap a bit.
Barry Hutter - 620,000
Igor Kurganov - 1,165,000