Three-way to the river with 3,000 in the middle, Demis Hassabis checked out of the small blind and Roman Valerstein, as well as Noah Schwartz, checked back. Hassabis rolled over his cards and announced a full house as well as a straight, but only when the cards were exposed he noticed that his had indeed made a royal flush.
"I knew I had the ace of clubs," Hassabis said in table chat while Valerstein and Schwartz just grinned.
Several Pot-Limit Omaha specialists have sat down in the last few minutes such as Craig Varnell, Veselin Karakitukov, Sylvain Loosli and Len Ashby. Also new in the field are Gavin Cochrane and Matt Giannetti.
According to the screens there are already 80 players registered mid-way through level one.
The fireworks have already kicked off over on table 433 as Sebastian Bastian from under the gun and Sasha Liu on the button clashed. Around 30,000 were in the middle with the turn showing and Bastian made it 21,000 to go. Liu called and Bastian then checked the on the river.
Liu bet 65,000 and Bastian reluctantly called to roll over for a set first. Liu mucked and Bastian also revealed his , scooped the pot and was moved tables the very next hand to balance the growing field.
Konstantin Beylin has sat down recently and already spun up his stack by quite a margin to join the early chip leaders. Other notables that recently entered include Will Jaffe, Ivaylo Sivinov, Krasimir Yankov, Laszlo Bujtas, Toby Lewis and Connor Drinan.
On a completed board of , Mohsin Virani led for 12,200 into a pot of 16,000 and Antti Marttinen raised to 31,300. Virani wasted little time before reraising the pot and that sent Marttinen into the think tank. The Finn eventually folded and Virani claimed the pot.
"Did you have it?" Virani was asked and replied "Of course I had it," but didn't show the cards.
Another big pot was brewing soon after with Mike Krasienko on the button and Jorryt van Hoof in the small blind at it. More than 45,000 were in the middle on a river and van Hoof made it 43,600 to go. Krasienko pondered over his decision and sent his cards into the muck.