2026 Onyx High Roller Series
Level: 10
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
Danilo Velasevic was standing up as his chips got counted out. He had just lost a massive pot to Daniel Rezaei, where the board showed 3♠3♦9♣7♠6♠, and Rezaei had 3♣3♥ turned over in front of him for quads.
Rezaei's stack was counted out to be less than Rezaei's, and the pot of around 900,000 was given to Rezaei, while Velasevic was out.
There was close to 550,000 in the pot between Quan Zhou and Aren Bezhanyan, with the board showing 5♦3♥5♥4♣9♣.
Zhou was first to act from the big blind, and gathered together a bet of 325,000, which caused Bezhanyan to go deep into the tank.
Bezhanyan, who was seated in the hijack, went deep into the tank and used up all nine of his time banks. In the end, he decided to lay his hand down and surrendered the pot to Zhou.
Zeynettin Aydin limped from the small blind and Belarmino De Souza made it around 29,000 from the big blind. Aydin called and the two players saw the A♠K♦9♣ flop come down.
Aydin fired out for 8,000, and was met by a raise to 19,000 from De Souza. Aydin continued in the form of a call.
Aydin bet the minimum of 8,000 again on the 3♠ turn. This time, De Souza just called.
A 5♦ river prompted Aydin to fire the same minimum bet of 8,000. Again, De Souza just called.
Aydin showed J♠8♥ for a pair of eights but was out-kicked by De Souza's Q♠8♠.
Level: 9
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 8,000
Players are now going on a short 10-minute break.
Krasimir Yankov raised from early position and then called the 51,000 shove of Boris Kolev, who was on the button.
Boris Kolev: A♣9♦
Krasimir Yankov: J♣J♥
Yankov's pocket jacks stayed best through the 4♦4♣8♥ flop and 6♠ turn. Kolev needed to spike an ace on the river to stay in Day 1b of the Main Event.
The dealer burned a card and then put out the 4♠ on the river, and Kolev was sent to the rail.
Justin Steinbrenner raised under the gun to 12,000 and Yaman Nakdali jammed for 95,000 from the next position. Yulian Bogdanov moved in from the hijack for around 250,000, which forced Steinbrenner to fold.
Yaman Nakdali: A♦K♣
Yulian Bogdanov: 10♥10♦
Nakdali was in a flip with the ace-king against Bogdanov's two tens.
Nakdali didn't connect in any way with the 4♣Q♥6♥6♦8♥ runout, and all of his chips were sent over to Bogdanov.