First to act, Pedro Marques raised to 175,000 with the and Piotr Nurzynski called from one seat over with the . The flop was checked and Nurzynski improved to trips on the turn. Marques bet 225,000 and Nurzynski called.
Both headed to the river and Marques checked, Nurzynski bet 450,000 and the snap-fold followed.
On the tail end of a hand between Fabiano Kovalski and Mark Buckley, the former checked the river and Buckley bet 750,000. Kovalski used one time bank and called, but sighed as soon as Buckley had turned over his for the nut flush.
John Juanda raised in the cutoff with the and was called two ways by Pedro Marques on the button holding and Ben Heath in the big blind with . They checked the flop and Juanda bet the turn for 300,000, only Marques called.
The river was checked and Marques claimed the pot.
Patrick Clarke raised to 160,000 from under the gun, and Fabiano Kovalski called in the next seat. The action folded around to Haoxiang Wang in the small blind who raised to 600,000. Clarke folded, and Kovalski moved all in to put maximum pressure on Wang, but he quickly called.
Haoxiang Wang:
Fabiano Kovalski:
Board:
Wang was in a great position with his pocket kings, and Kovalski needed a lot of help to send Wang to the rail. But the board fell in Wang's favor, and he secured the massive 10m pot to take the overall chip lead and leave Kovalski on 3m.
Matthias Tikerpe raised from under the gun and was called by Fabiano Kovalski on the button and Rodrigo Carmo in the big blind. The flop fell and action checked to Kovalski, who bet 115,000. Only Carmo came along to see the on the turn and the Portuguese check-called a second bet of 550,000 by Kovalski.
The river was checked and Carmo showed , Kovalski claimed the pot with .
Ognyan Dimov raised to 175,000 on the button with the and Pedro Marques defended the big blind with the . The flop brought and Marques check-called a bet of 130,000. After the turn, Marques checked once more and Dimov bet 275,000.
Marques tossed in calling chips and the came on the river. Both checked and