With about 270,000 in the pot, Farid Jattin had 140,000 in front of him in the big blind. The board read and Jattin was considering an all-in shove from small blind Blair Hinkle. Jattin used two time extensions and called for around 800,000.
Blair Hinkle:
Farid Jattin:
Both had pairs and straight draws but Hinkle was the one in need of improvement. The river was the and Hinkle shook Jattin's hand and wished everyone good luck. Jattin dragged one of the biggest pots yet and rocketed past the 3 million mark.
The board was all but rushed away and Athanasios Polychronopoulos shook hands with Jussi Nevanlinna after he had just been eliminated by the Finn. Polychronopoulos had jammed for 290,000 with and lost the flip against the pocket tens of Nevanlinna.
Right after one table over, Luigi Knoppers had raised to 55,000 and Andrey Kotelnikov three-bet to 150,000. Knoppers moved all in and Kotelnikov called it off for around 500,000 after verifying that Polychronopoulos had just busted.
Andrey Kotelnikov:
Luigi Knoppers:
The appeared right in the window and the rest of the board came to send the Russian to the rail.
Back over to the other table, Andrei Kurov shoved for 425,000 on the button and Sosia Jiang eventually made the call in the big blind.
Andrei Kurov:
Sosia Jiang:
Kurov secured the double by the turn of a board and cut Jiang's stack nearly in half.
Benjamin "Spraggy" Spragg might be wearing the PokerStars Team Pro Online patch, but don't make the mistake of thinking he's feeling right at home in a tournament with a buy-in of $25,000.
Part of Team Online because of his popular Twitch stream, Spragg plays an average buy-in of $30 online. So to all of a sudden take a seat in a $25,000 High Roller was quite the change of pace for the amicable Brit.
He made it into the money in his biggest buy-in ever, eventually exiting in 140th place for $35,000. We talked to the Amicable Brit right after he busted. Read the interview on the PokerNews front page.
Upeshka De Silva opened to 45,000 from early position and was called by three players before the action was on Martins Adeniya in the big blind. Adeniya had a perfect opportunity for a squeeze play and he bumped it up to 325,000. De Silva nodded in approval before moving all in for just less than the raise. The remaining players all folded and the cards were on their backs.
Martins Adeniya:
Upeshka De Silva:
Adeniya woke up with a monster in the big blind and the two players were flipping. The flop came to give Adeniya the lead with a pair of aces. The and run out was no help to De Silva as he was eliminated.
At the previous level, Florian Duta opened under the gun for 40,000 and Jose Montes made it 125,000 in the next seat. Action folded back to Duta and he called. The flop came and Duta check-called 90,000. He check-called another 180,000 on the turn and the completed the board. Duta checked and Montes needed little time before telling the dealer he was all in.
It was 655,000 effective and Duta tanked long enough to use a time extension before placing a chip in the middle. Montes turned over . Duta had flopped a set with .
Montes busted out the next hand when he jammed under the gun and ran into Kristen Bicknell's kings. He flopped an open-ender but didn't get there.