Jose Lesta in hijack raised to 2,500 in hijack with 7♠6♠ and Kasparas Klezys in cutoff called with 10♦10♣. John Garza, in the big blind with K♠K♦ three-bet to 13,700 and only got one customer in Klezys.
The flop came 6♦8♣J♠. Garza bet 12,000. Klezys called. The turn fell 4♠. After some time of thought, Garza bet 30,000, pushing Klezys out of the pot.
Matthew Hahm raised to 2,400 under the gun and Michael Mizrachi called on the button. Stanislav Zegal then three-bet to 11,200 in the big blind and only Mizrachi called.
The flop came Q♥10♥6♥ and Zegal bet 6,700. Mizrachi called to the J♦ turn, where Zegal bet another 32,300. Mizrachi quickly folded this time and Zegal took down the pot as both players currently sit on nearly 400,000.
Thomas Zanot was in the middle of a conversation with Alexane Najchaus about his recent luck of drawing the $1,000,000 mystery bounty along with his huge seven-figure pai gow score from a couple of years ago. Meanwhile, there was a large pot breaking out between Nikolay Volper and David Diaz with over 100,000 chips in the middle on a board of Q♥6♦4♠Q♦J♥.
Volper checked to Diaz who jammed all in for his last 50,200 and Volper snapped him off. Diaz flipped over A♥Q♣ for trip queens but Volper held 4♣4♦ for a full house.
"You're the luckiest guy in this room!" Zanot joked after the hand, knowing full well that title belongs to him.
Hamza Firdawcy raised to 2,500 first to act and was called by Yannik Hofmann in middle position and Jason Wong in the hijack for a three-way pot.
All three players checked on the 8♠10♠Q♦ flop and J♥ turn, but Firdawcy bet 4,000 after the 5♦ completed the board. Hofmann quickly folded, but Wong cut out a raise to 14,000 and placed it into the middle.
Undeterred, Firdawcy made it 30,000 to go and Wong let his hand go.
Brian Whiteman opened up the action with a raise to 2,500 from middle position. Heng Zhang came over the top from the cutoff by making it 7,500 before Richard Ham opted to jam from the big blind, for 26,500.
Action was back on Whiteman, who went into the tank and was clearly in a tough spot. On the other side of the table, Zhang was standing up and recording the table with his tablet-sized phone, despite preflop action not having completed. Whiteman looked at Ham, then at Zhang, and ended up deciding on a fold. Zhang kept recording and snap-called.
Richard Ham: A♣Q♥ 
Heng Zhang: A♠A♥
It seemed that Ham already knew he was up against the goods, as he too was up and out of his chair before the cards were tabled. He couldn't find a miracle, only a needle on the 9♣3♥3♦J♣Q♠ runout.
Jacob Lin limped in from under the gun and Tonia Miller called in the cutoff. Brandon Wittmeyer completed from the small blind, and Chase Bricker checked his option in the big blind.
Four players saw the K♦8♦10♠ flop and after Wittmeyer checked, Bricker bet 1,200. Lin raised to 5,000, which got Miller and Wittmeyer to fold, but Bricker called.
A K♣ hit the turn and Bricker check-called a bet of 6,000 from Lin to see the 4♠ land on the river. Bricker checked and then folded to a bet of 12,000 from Lin.
As he was raking in the pot, Lin flipped over K♠10♥ for the nuts.
Kevin Gundersen is seated on the same table and is up to around 360,000 as the dinner break edges a bit closer.
David Childs raised to 2,600 in the cutoff and Peter Gurney called on the button and in the small blind Masato Ohara three-bet to 10,300. Childs raised to 45,000 when action got back to him, folding out Gurny and Ohara jammed for 45,700 effective to see Childs call.
David Childs: Q♣Q♦
Masato Ohara: A♥A♠
The board ran out A♦Q♠4♦4♣8♥ and the aces full of fours was good for the pot.
Donovan Dean, playing from the cutoff, and big blind John Barr had already constructed a pot of roughly 50,000 by the time the turn was dealt.
The flop 10♠6♥2♥ was already out, and the dealer added the A♥ turn card to the board.
Barr led out with a bet of 25,000, but Dean seemingly wanted to play a bigger pot, putting in a raise to 69,000.
Action back to Barr, who took some time to consider all of his options. After a minute or so, he moved all in, covering his opponent. There were no theatrics from Dean, who immediately folded.
Barr then windmilled the Q♠ across the table, to show he didn't have a flush. Dean joined in the fun by exposing the K♠ from his hand, implying he was bluffing, too.
"Same hand [as me]?" Barr asked.
"I had king-jack, but I had the jack of hearts" was the response from Dean.
Barr ended the conversation by saying, "I had king-queen", which, in a way, meant he was value betting.
Boris Angelov, who finished fifth in the 2024 WSOP Main Event, jammed in his last 20,000 from the cutoff, and he was looked up by Derek Kwan on the button.
Boris Angelov: A♦K♣
Derek Kwan: A♥K♥
Both players had the same hand, but Kwan obtained a flush draw on the J♦6♥Q♣2♥ turn. The 5♥ river completed his flush, crushing Angelov's dream of back-to-back final tables.
Ketan Shah raised to 2,500 and got called by Bob Shao on the button before Jason Mercier announced a three-bet to 11,400 in the big blind. Shah let it go but Shao called.
The flop revealed 9♠4♥2♣ and Mercier continued for 8,200, which Shao called. On the K♦ turn, Mercier bet again, this time for 19,600 and Shao tanked a minute before calling.
The Q♦ completed the board and Mercier looked at Shao's remaining stack before firing 75,000 in the middle, putting Shao at risk. Shao quickly called for his remaining stack of 56,300.
Mercier tabled A♥K♠ for top pair but Shao held 9♣9♥ for a flopped set of nines to claim the large pot and the double up.
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