Champ: 5th Place - Kovyazin

$2,500 + $200 Championship Deep Stack NLH  

Vitaly Kovyazin (Brooklyn, NY)

$42,550

Vitaly Kovyazin (utg) moved in for ~550k.

Action folded around to Michael Marder who looked at his cards and snap-called, showing AK suited.

Vitaly had KT suited and was in bad shape.

The board came K 9 3 6 3 and was no help for Vitaly.  He finished 5th for $42,550.

Michael Marder is now up to ~4 million chips.  9.15 million chips in play makes the average about 2.3 with four players remaining.

Vitaly Kovyazin finished second in the first-ever Latin American Poker Tour in 2008, pocketing $117,750.  Today's 5th place is his best-ever finish at Borgata.