Among those to bust early on were Dylan Wilkerson, Robert Sherwood, Ronan Monfort, Teunis Kooij and David Moses, all among a constant stream of players heading to the payout desk with more than 50 people waiting in line.

According to Kooij, he had a bad run of cards when running with queens into kings, then tripling up with ace-eight suited only to run ace-king suited into kings.