Joel "Odonkor1" Nordkvist limped the small blind and called a raise to 560,000 by "zazano" in the big blind. On a flop, Nordkvist check-called a bet of 402,600 and they checked the turn. Nordkvist check-called another 720,000 on the river and "zazano" won the pot with for top pair.
A few smaller pots followed of which "zazano" collected most and he pulled into a comfortable lead over the rest of the field.
It started with a raise to 368,000 by "EEE27" from under the gun and Jon "apestyles" Van Fleet three-bet to 1,200,000 out of the big blind. "EEE27" moved all-in and Van Fleet instantly called for more than 5.3 million.
Jon "apestyles" Van Fleet:
"EEE27":
On a board of , Van Fleet locked up the double on the turn.
apestyles doubles through EEE27
Benjamin "bencb789" Rolle then limped under the gun and it folded to "EEE27" in the big blind, who checked. On a flop, the Finn used a portion of his time bank and jammed the last two and a half big blinds with the , Rolle called with
A miracle runout on turn and river kept "EEE27" in contention and both traded emojis in chat, which the Finn concluded with a shark.
"EEE27" doubled once more with against the of Van Fleet on a runout but remained the shortest stack with five remaining.
Jon "apestyles" Van Fleet was all-in with the out of the small blind and "EEE27" looked him up out of the big blind with the . The board came and Van Fleet doubled.
He then won another pot against "zazano" who tried to get him off by betting the river for 910,800, but Van Fleet called and was good versus .
"zazano" got the chips back a few hands later when his made two pair on a board and Benjamin "bencb789" Rolle called bets of 382,800 on the turn and 982,056 on the river.
Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis raised to 500,000 out of a stack of 742,428 as the table short stack on the button and chip leader "zazano" in the big blind raised, Veldhuis called all-in
Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis:
"zazano":
The flop left Veldhuis in worse shape as he needed running kings, queens or a ten to double. Instead, he was drawing dead on the turn to make the river a formality. Veldhuis finishes in 7th place for $41,995.80.
"zazano" made it 280,000 to go from the button and he was called by "EEE27" in the big blind. They checked the flop and the on the turn. "EEE27" then reluctantly check-called a bet of 248,325 on the river and was good with versus .
Just before the blinds went up, Job "DeadNylan" Greben lost a pot when he gave up the river to a bet by Joel "Odonkor1" Nordkvist.
"zazano" opened the action with a raise to 280,000 and "kimokh" then jammed the hijack for the last 2,017,047. "EEE27" in the cutoff got his last 2,519,560 in and that forced out all players behind including "zazano".
"kimokh":
"EEE27":
The flop provided a flushdraw for "kimokh" but he bricked out on the turn and river to take 8th place for $32,333.70.
The action has remained very tight throughout the last dozen hands and just one flop was in sight when "Wildace_hun" defended the big blind against a button raise by Joel "Odonkor1" Nordkvist. On the flop, a continuation bet did the trick for the Sweden.
Two hands later the nine remaining players headed on their third scheduled 5-minute break of the day and "zazano" remains the overwhelming chip leader.