Hand 176: Mutke Doubles Through Polychronopoulos
Nível 29
: 40,000/80,000, 10,000 ante
Hand #176: Mutke raised his button to 160,000, and Polychronopoulos reraised to 390,000, staring his opponent down and casually showing off his chip tricks while Mutke contemplated. Eventually, Mutke moved all-in for 2.165 million, and Polychronopoulos snap-called with the 
, standing and striding towards his supporters on the rail.
Mutke's 
was in bad shape, but he had live cards and lots of possibilities. On the 
flop, Mutke found a pair and took the lead in the hand, but the 
on the turn gave Polychronopoulos additional outs to the gutshot straight.
River: .
With that, Mutke scored a huge double up to survive, taking a chunk out of Polychronopoulos' stack while putting himself in contention for a WSOP gold bracelet.