Loucas "Rage Monkey1" Kourtoumbellides raised to 600,000 and called a three-bet to 1,800,000 by Pulkit Goyal. They checked the flop and the turn. Goyal bet the river for 1,288,000 and that forced a fold.
Kourtoumbellides then won a few smaller pots to remain with a narrow lead.
Pulkit Goyal limped in and then called a raise to 600,000 by Loucas "Rage Monkey1" Kourtoumbellides.
Kourtoumbellides fired the flop for 624,000 and the turn for 1,272,960, both of which Goyal called. On the river, Kourtoumbellides checked and let go when facing a bet worth 3,095,380.
The next pot-sized raise by Kourtoumbellides came with a call by Goyal and Kourtoumbellides made it 1.2 million to go on the flop, Goyal stuck around. They then checked the turn and river, Goyal won the pot with versus .
Loucas "Rage Monkey1" Kourtoumbellides raised to 600,000 to earn a call from Pulkit Goyal and they checked the flop. On the turn, Goyal check-called for 800,000 and they checked the river.
Goyal tabled the and Kourtoumbellides won the pot with the .
Kourtoumbellides remained with lots of aggression and button raises, which then led to Goyal scooping a pot. Goyal defended and check-called the turn for 600,000. The river was checked and Goyal's prevailed versus .
Loucas "Rage Monkey1" Kourtoumbellides raised the button to 600,000 and Pulkit Goyal called to see a flop of , which went check, check. Goyal bet the turn for 880,000 and earned a call to then check the river.
Kourtoumbellides bet 1,006,401 with the and was called by Goyal with the winning .
Both players checked possible ICM numbers but Loucas "Rage Monkey1" Kourtoumbellides declined as he was looking for slightly more money according to the prior table chat.
Kourtoumbellides then three-bet to 1.2 million to get called by Pulkit Goyal and bet the flop to win the pot uncontested.
Most other pots went to Kourtoumbellides as well and the next big pot also headed his direction. He raised the button to 600,00 and Goyal defended. The flop brought a check-call for 408,001 by Goyal and he then check-folded the turn when facing a pot-sized bet worth 2,016,002.
In the first hand after the field had gone three-handed, Karl "Rossz" Schedlberger got some value off Loucas "Rage Monkey1" Kourtoumbellides when he made fives full of eights against kings up.
One hand later, Schedlberger raised to 400,000 on the button and earned two calls. On the flop, action checked to Pulkit Goyal and he bet 396,000. Schedlberger called and Kourtoumbellides came along.
The turn as checked and Kourtoumbellides bet the river for 2,388,000. Goyal tanked for a while and eventually folded, Schedlberger jammed for 5,728,882 and Kourtoumbellides snap-called.
Schedlberger tabled the for kings full but he was done and dusted as Kourtoumbellides had turned a superior full house with .
Loucas "Rage Monkey1" Kourtoumbellides made it 400,000 to go on the button and was called by Pulkit Goyal in the small blind and "1bloodflood" in the big blind.
The flop fell and all three players checked. On the turn, Goyal checked and "1bloodflood" bet 400,000 to pick up one call. Goyal check-raised the pot to 2.8 million and "1bloodflood" called all-in, Kourtoumbellides folded.
"1bloodflood":
Pulkit Goyal:
Bottom set versus nut straight was a classic PLO clash and "1bloodflood" found no help on the blank river.
In a battle of the blinds, a pot-sized raise to 480,000 by Pulkit Goyal was called by "1bloodflood" and they headed to the flop. "1bloodflood" bet 316,800 to get check-raised to 842,688. They clocked it back to 2,005,376 and Goyal moved all in to see his opponent surrender.