Samuel Ju and Mengshi Tian had built a 100,000-chip pot when a turn of 6♠A♠9♥8♣ was dealt. Ju checked from the small blind before being put all-in by Tian in the big blind.
Ju gave it some thought before calling off his last 50,000.
Samuel Ju: K♠9♠
Mengshi Tian: 6♥6♦
Ju had hoped to be up against a lower flush draw, but ran into Tian's set instead. The 2♣ river did not bring Ju his desired spade, sending him to the rail.
One table over, Derk van Luijk was seen losing his last chips to Jordan Glazer.
In a blind-on-blind pot to the 3♠4♠8♦ flop, Christopher Nguyen checked before he raised Derk van Luijk's bet to 11,000. Van Luijk called, and did so too when Nguyen sized up to 15,000 on the 10♠ turn.
The 8♣ river saw Nguyen bet a hefty 50,000. Van Luijk mulled it over a bit before deciding to call it off. Nguyen tabled J♠8♠ for a flush, besting the 8♥7♥ of Van Luijk and eclipsing three starting stacks.
Ewen Trevidy was down to just a few chips and was all-in in the big blind, with Christian Pedersen and Bernard Larabi involved in a small side pot.
The board read 5♦A♦7♣A♣, where Pedersen made a bet of 3,000, and Larabi called. The A♠ river saw Pedersen check before he was put all-in for 14,000 by Larabi.
Pedersen made a quick fold, Larabi tabled 8♠7♠ for a full house, and Trevidy took his exit when he showed 3♠2♣, playing the board.
Duff Charette and Christopher Nguyen had amassed 80,000 in the middle when they went to a Q♦2♦9♦A♠8♦ river. Charette checked to Nguyen, who made a sizable bet of 60,000.
Charette almost instantly tossed his J♦7♦ into the muck, forfeiting the pot and seeing it being dragged to Nguyen.
Last year, a massive field of 3,233 entries assembled at the Royal Dublin Society for the 2024 Irish Open €1,150 Main Event. The tournament set a new record for the Irish Open and absolutely smashing the guaranteed prize pool of €1,000,000 by creating a prize pool of €3,152,175.
However, as with any other tournament, there could only be one person left standing at the end. Over four long days of poker action, it was Day 3 chipleader Tero Laurila who won the iconic Irish Open trophy and took home €292,685 after a three-way deal.
Laurila defeated Ireland’s Hiep Ninh after a relatively short heads up battle, as the blinds had been reduced from 60 to 20 minutes after the deal. Ninh, who plays almost exclusively in Dublin, took home the larger sum of €335,636 for his efforts due to having a massive chip lead when the deal was made. The final person involved in the deal was the 21-year-old Mark Johnston, who is just dipping his toes in the waters of professional poker and walked away with €232,685 for third place.
Picking up the action on a flop of Q♥4♣6♠, Jordan Glazer checked from the cutoff to Marcel Kessler on the button, who fired 6,000 into the sizable pot of 32,000.
Glazer called to the K♦ turn, where he made a quick fold when Kessler sized up to 18,000.
On another table, Jamie Dwan lost his last chips and busted his second bullet of the tournament while Duff Charette took their seat.
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