Has Yang lost his touch???

The magic carpet ride Jerry Yang has been on seems to be coming to an end thanks to Alex Kravchenko. Yang has just doubled the Russian up for the second time since taking his massive chip lead. Both times, Jerry has made extremely suspect calls.

The first hand saw Alex move for 4+ million from the blinds and Yang called his all in with J10o. Yes, J10o. Kravchenko shows A10 and his hand holds. The second double up saw Yang raise to 1.5 million in the cut off. Kravchenko comes over the top for just under 10 million. Yang stands up, kisses a photograph of his six children (as he regularly does when calling an all in) and show KQo. KQo for close to 10 million!!! Yang has married himself to almost every two cards given to him by the dealer. Kravchenko shows 33 and the race is on. the flop comes 8-3-2 and the hand is over before it's begun. Yang finds himself drawing dead and is now down to 67 million (that sounds odd doesn't it?). He still has almost a 40 million chip lead on 2nd place but the next time he doubles someone up, he could find himself in serious trouble.

Phil Gordon has been praising Alex Kravchenko's patient play on the short stack and has predicted that this second double up could propel him to the bracelet. Alex has undeniably been the strongest player at the table. He has been the short stack ever since play began. It will be interesting to see how he changes gears now that he has amassed 18 million chips.

NEWS FLASH!!!

Jerry Yang just folded to a re-raise!!! That's the first hand he has released after raising all day!