Kleijnen the Early Leader; Mercier Crushed
The flop came down . Mercier slowed down with a check. Kleijnen fired 10,000 with two blue T5,000 chips. Mercier met him with a call.
The turn card was the and Mercier checked again. Kleijnen moved all in for 33,475. This sent Mercier into the tank for a couple of minutes. He wound up making the call, tabling . Kleijnen held the best of it though with the . Mercier was drawing dead and the river card completed the board with the .
Mercier was left with just 8,000 chips while Kleijnen rocketed to a field-leading 100,000.