Triplet Cowboys Save Three Short Stacks
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

Pocket kings are all over the place this level. Konstantin Puchkov played them by flat calling a raise preflop in the big blind, then check-raising a flop and getting paid 139,500 by
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Qualifier David Stogel had just 60,000 and got it in preflop with his kings vs. Mario Adinolfi's . These held but Adinolfi just chuckled (he has 610,000).
Finally Erich Kollmann was another preflop all-in cowboy-holder vs. the of [Removed:285]. The crowd was so intense around this particular table that his chip count will have to come separately, later.