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James Chen opened from middle position with a raise to 40,000. Action folded to "Kingofeast" in the big blind for the call.
The flop came and both players checked. The turn card was and "Kingofeast" checked into a bet of 50,000 from Chen. "Kingofeast" check-raised to 210,000 and Chen called.
The river was and "Kingofeast" checked. Chen's bet of 464,000 was good enough for the fold to take the big pot.
Kristian "Aleister" Larsson opened for 40,000 from under the gun. Andras Nemeth three-bet to 144,000 from the cutoff before he called a four-bet to 456,000 by Larsson.
Larsson only had 26,150 left in his stack before those chips went in as well on the flop.
Kristian "Aleister" Larsson:
Andras Nemeth:
Larsson was ahead but he was soon out the door as Lady Luck wasn't on his side with the turn and river completing the board to give Nemeth a flush.
"shrekpoker91" just became the first player to surpass 3 million in chips in a huge pot of nearly 2 million in chips that resulted in the elimination of "ROLLINGDR0NE".
"ROLLINGDR0NE" opened for 35,200 from the cutoff before they called a raise by "shrekpoker91" to 129,600 from the button.
Both players checked the flop before "ROLLINGDR0NE" led out for 191,880 on the turn. "shrekpoker91" called and "ROLLINGDR0NE" fired out for 441,324 on the river.
"shrekpoker91" raised to 882,646 and "ROLLINGDR0NE" called off their stack of 593,244. "shrekpoker" rivered a straight with to win the hand against their opponent's two pair with .
Action folded to Noam "lamalo21" Garama in the cutoff for a bet of 36,000. "shopmaker" made the call from the big blind.
The flop came and "shopmaker" led out with a bet of 87,000. Garama raised to 174,000 and "shopmaker" made it 177,212 to get the last of their chips in the pot. Garama called the all-in and showed for a pair of aces and a wheel draw. "shopmaker" turned over for two pair.
The turn was a , making a wheel for Garama, and the turn didn't bring the needed full house. "shopmaker" was eliminated from the tournament and Garama passed the 2,000,000 chip mark.