The First Shove Wins
Level 12
: 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
In a situation of two aggressive players, the one that is first to shove is in most cases the one to win. Supposing, of course, that they had no plans to go to showdown and they both wanted to end the pot preflop.
This was the situation with Loukas Kioutsoukis and Andrey Gabrovski, where Kioutsoukis raised from under-the-gun to 11,000 and Gabrovski three-bet from the small blind to 50,000. Kioutsoukis didn't think long before shoving all in for more than 160,000 and Gabrovski snap-folded.
Kioutsoukis showed 
while he was collecting chips from the pot and Gabrovski said that he had five-six.
Meanwhile, we lost two more players, Georgios Efthimiadis and Pavel Pavlov.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted | |
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Busted |