On the board, Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier bet 4,100 and Tom-Aksel Bedell raised to 9,400. Masa Kagawa and Anton Astapau folded behind Bedell and then Mercier made the call.
The river completed the board with the and Mercier checked. Bedell bet 22,000, which was just less than enough to put Mercier all in. Mercier took a few moments, then folded and Bedell won the pot.
From under the gun, Jani Sointula raised to 2,500. The player in the cutoff seat called and then Gurgen Melkonyan reraised from the small blind to 10,000. Sointula reraised to 18,000 and the cutoff seat folded. Melkonyan made the call, though.
The flop came down and Melkonyan checked. Sointula fired 10,000 and Melkonyan tanked for a couple of minutes before calling.
The turn was the and Melkonyan checked again. Sointula moved all in and Melkonyan folded after some brief thought.
Max Greenwood just shot up to over 300,000 in chips. Greenwood and [Removed:119] got all the money in preflop and both of them held a pair of aces. Greenwood had the and four clubs followed on the board to give him a winning flush along with the massive pot.
Randal Flowers was crippled when his hand got beat by Reza Mostafavi's on a board, though we're not exactly sure when the money went in.
The rest of his chips went in preflop with and he was called by Kristijonas Andrulis and Alexander Roumeliotis. The Lithuanian pushed the Swede out of the pot on the turn of the board with and Flowers couldn't hit any of his outs on the river.