According to the Russian blogger and floor staff, Alexey Makarov has departed in cruel fashion when he got it in set over set against Lautaro Guerra. Makarov had a top set of aces and Guerra middle set of jacks, and Makarov also held the superior clubs flush draw.
However, Guerra spiked the case jack on the river to soar towards a massive stack.
On a flop of , Mohsin Virani ended up all in and at risk with the and Matthew Gonzales looked him up with he for the inferior pair and superior flush draw. The turn was a blank, however, Gonzales got there with the river to send Virani to the rail.
A total of 278 players entered the 2019 $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller and the top 42 will be in the money. A min-cash is worth $37,365 with a seat at the final table of eight worth $150,483.
Both the winner and the runner-up will walk away with over $1m, with the winner taking home $1,618,417 and the runner-up $1,000,253.
The cards were already on their backs and the completed board showed . JC Tran counted out chips to pay off Iaroslav Boiko, who had doubled for 67,500 with his for a set of eights, while Tran had missed a gutshot and flush draw with .
Tran was left with around 80,000 after the hand and those chips vanished a few moments later, as Dylan Weisman dragged them in.
On a completed board of , Norbert Szecsi bet 18,000 and Gjergj Sinishtaj raised to 48,000. Szecsi dropped in four T-25,000 chips and the floor was called. It was ruled that Szecsi had to min-raise to 114,000 and Sinishtaj called all in for less than that, 106,500 in total.
Sinishtaj tabled his for queens full and since he was all in, Szecsi's cards were also exposed, he had the for the inferior full house. Szecsi was left with 22,500 and busted the very next hand against Adi Abugazal.