At the time of writing, there are four players left in The High Roller Big Game.
Marcus Farthing has taken over the chip lead with almost 45 million in chips while he's trailed by David Peters, Jens Lakemeier, and Wiktor Malinowski.
Marcus Farthing and Jens Lakemeier are battling heads-up right now with Farthing with a significant chip lead after Wiktor Malinowski and David Peters have been eliminated.
Jens Lakemeier has taken over the chip lead in The High Roller Big Game and Marcus Farthing asked if they could maybe look at the deal via chat and checked the box but Lakemeier hasn't responded yet.
Lakemeier has 59,111,208 in chips to his name right now while Farthing is trailing with 35,588,792.
Marcus Farthing raised to 4,000,000 from the button for Jens Lakemeier to make the call.
The flop came 
for Lakemeier to check. Farthing took some time and continued with a bet of 6,187,500. Lakemeier tanked for a bit and then shoved for 30,486,208 for Farthing to call with the bigger stack after he had taken the chip lead back in the previous hand.
Jens Lakemeier: 
Marcus Farthing: 
Lakemeier had flopped the open-ended straight draw while Farthing had picked up the gutshot to a straight.
The turn was the 
for Farthing to improve to an open-ended straight draw too and got there when the 
came on the river to win the tournament outright without a deal for $65,609.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marcus Farthing | United Kingdom | $65,609 |
| 2 | Jens Lakemeier | Austria | $42,307 |
| 3 | David Peters | United States | $29,106 |
| 4 | Wiktor Malinowski | Poland | $20,654 |
| 5 | Joakim Andersson | Sweden | $15,391 |
| 6 | Andras Nemeth | Hungary | $12,366 |
| 7 | Pier-Luc Martin | Canada | $10,492 |
| 8 | Peter Tschernigg | Austria | $8,993 |
| 9 | Laszlo Bujtas | Hungary | $7,694 |
With the conclusion of The High Roller Big Game, the updates on the blog also end for today.
See you next week for more action on partypoker!
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