With 1,015 entries collected in total, the prize pool is £5,075,000. After the 3% of every prize pool that will be withheld for tax, marketing and operational costs, £4,922,750 is left to divide.
127 players will be in the money with a min-cash worth £10,300. The winner will walk away with £1,000,000!
Piotr Nurzynski raised to 125,000 from under the gun and Ben Kett was up next to act. Kett three-bet to 375,000 and action folded back to Nurzynski who called.
They both checked through the on the flop to the on the turn. Nurzynski check-called the 400,000 bet of Kett.
The river completed the board with the , Nurzynski checked for the last time. Kett now barreled 1,500,000 over the line. Nurzynski looked at his cards once more before folding them.
The completed board was down , and there was around 1.7m in the pot. Vojtech Skalak had checked from the big blind and was facing a 700,000 bet from Guillaume Diaz, who was playing from early position.
Skalak was in the tank and thought for close to 90 seconds before he called. Diaz tabled pocket jacks for second pair, and Skalak mucked.