Level 40:  500,000/1,000,000 (1,000,000)
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Bust outs in poker tournaments are a little bit like buses, you wait at the stop for ages and then two turn up at the same time. In this case, three buses to the payout desk arrived almost at the same time, as we have now lost three players.

Alexandru Farcasanu raised to 2,200,000 from the cutoff holding A♥Q♠, and Kyriakos Papadopoulos tried to steal the pot with players’ favorite bluffing hand A♣5♣, three-betting to 10,000,000 from the small blind. Unfortunately for the Greek, Farcasanu had him dominated and all the chips went in quickly.

The flop 7♥A♦Q♥ left Papadopoulos nearly drawing dead, needing a miracle to survive. The turn brought one of the case fives, but Papadopoulos would need one more on the river. J♣ on the river wasn’t it, and we lost Papadopoulos in seventh place

Kyriakos from Thessaloniki in Greece is the most experienced player who graced this final table. He has over $1m in live cashes, including over $180,000 when he won a massive field $500 buy-in at the Aria in Las Vegas. He became very short stacked during Day 4, but played strongly, tussling with his compatriot Vasileios in many hands to rebuild his stack.

Alexandru Farcasanu – 69,000,000
Kyriakos Papadopoulos – 0