Eric Ahn raised the button to 2,000 and Maxime Chilaud three-bet from the big blind to 6,900, Ahn called.
On the Q♥8♥A♣ flop, Chilaud continued for 3,600, and Ahn called.
Both players decided to check the 7♠ turn to see a K♥ land on the river. Chilaud fired 13,800, which Ahn called after some consideration.
Chilaud tabled K♠Q♠ for two pair, and Ahn mucked.
Three ways to the Q♥7♠5♥ flop, Cesar Rainero checked and Mark Jun bet 4,000. Yoon Kang called from the next seat and Rainero folded. Both players knuckled the felt on the 8♦ turn and J♦ river to see Kang table the A♦7♦ as the winning hand, further building his large stack to begin with.
The 2021 Main Event second-place finisher George Holmes started the day with a shorter stack and he was involved in a three-way hand with two other shorter stacks as they all saw the flop of Q♣2♦J♣.
Holmes led for 3,700 from the big blind. Laurent Cessy folded, leaving himself less than ten big blinds and Christine Ramello also folded to give Holmes a modest pot as he looks to spin it up on Day 2.
Samvel Gspoyan opened the action with a raise to 1,700 from the hijack. Sasha Sabbaghian three-bet to 5,600 in the cutoff and Gspoyan called.
Sabbaghian continued for 3,800 on a connected 9♥J♠3♠ flop and Gspoyan made the call.
The turn 7♦ went check-check before the river 10♣ hit the felt bringing in more straight draws. Gspoyan put out a bet of 8,100 but Sabbaghian snap-folded and was left as the table short stack.
Heads-up on a flop of 7♥2♠3♦, Griffin Stanton bet 8,000 from under the gun and Marcelo Santos called in middle position.
Both players checked the 2♣ turn. The river was the 8♠ and Stanton bet another 6,000.
Santos then raised to 15,000 and Stanton quickly called. Santos turned over A♦A♠ and Stanton mucked.
Blake Vogdes raised to 1,600 from under the gun and both Shaotong Chang in the hijack and Maxwell Lytell in the big blind called.
The flop rolled out K♣5♣3♦ and Lytell checked over to Vogdes, who bet 1,800, which only Lytell called.
On the turn A♥, Lytell check-called a second bet from Vogdes, this time to the tune of 3,600.
Lytell checked the river 9♥ and Vogdes moved all in for 31,000 effective, eliciting a quick fold from Lytell.
Nozomu Shimizu and Ludovic Uzan were heads-up on a completed board of 5♥A♣6♦J♠K♣ with a few thousand already in the middle.
Shimizu checked from the big blind and Uzan bet 1,000 on the button. Shimizu then check-raised to 2,100 and Uzan called after a bit of thought.
Shimizu tabled A♦2♥ for top pair and Uzan sent his hand into the muck.
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