"Famous Lithuanian Poker Players Appear at Win The Button

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Denis Boltunov - Win The Button winner

"Organised by the Poker School and Olympic Casino, the knock-out tournament festival attracts most of Lithuania's poker enthusiasts and professionals.

The fourth tournament in the series, Win The Button, is proof of this. It attracted 54 buy-ins, of which 16 were re-entries.

The first player left the tournament in the first level, and 32 players remained before the second break. Liutauras Armanavičius had the most buy-ins with 3.

There were no overly spectacular hands, and players often split the money after an all-in hand.

The final table was formed when the founder of PokerioMokykla.com Zigmas "Brilijant" PekarskasWith 99 in his hand, he picked up four of a kind and eliminated Darius Kruzik. This was the 6th knock-out for Zigmas (each knock-out is worth EUR 35).

With one table remaining, the blinds were 1,500/3,000/400. Average chip stack: 90,000. Tomas Bassus had the lowest chip stack with 23k.

As usual, the final table was quiet and no one fell for a while. Marat Kasaev was not in the money after folding all his chips to Algirdas Liutkevicius before the flop. Marat's A6 lost to Algirdas' AQ. The latter picked up two pairs and made 45k. The blinds at the time were 4k and 8k chips.

Vygerdas Jonikas was eliminated in the very next deal, losing his 15,000.

After a while, with three players remaining, the stakes were 8/16k and Z.Pekarskas was the first to go with 320k. However, he was eliminated from the tournament and heads up Denis Boltunov Before Paul Jucis. Both had the same chip stack - around 400,000 - and battled for around two hours. The blinds reached 10/20k and the game ended after all the chips were in when Paul's A-K folded to Dennis' A-Q with a Q on the table.

The tournament winner D.Boltunov threw 4 opponents per game, P.Jucys - 5, and Z.Pekarskas - 6.

Information:

No Limit Texas Freezeout Buy-in 150 eu

KnockOut -35-

Amount paid: 7290 EUROS (5400+1890)

Winners:

  1. Denis Boltunov - 1835,
  2. Paulius Jucys - 1242,
  3. Zigmas Pekarskas - 892,
  4. Algirdas Liutkevičius - 643,
  5. Vytautas Špakauskas - 432,
  6. Vygerdas Jonikas - 356.

The tournament lasted 10 hours: 19:00 - 05:00.

Today, Thursday, poker lovers can look forward to Turbo Version of Main Event tournament with a buy-in of EUR 110. Start; 18h.