Garry Gates opened to 140,000 in early position and Yuri Dzivielevski three-bet to 375,000 on his left. The action folded back to Gates who stuck in a four-bet to 1,100,000. Dzivielevski called and the two players went to a flop of .
Gates led out for 600,000 and Dzivielevski stuck around for the on the turn. Gates announced all in for around 1,400,000 and Dzivielevski instantly sent his cards to the muck.
Carlos Garcia checked from the big blind on a board and Kartik Ved bet 175,000 into about 550,000. Garcia called, bringing a river. Garcia checked and Ved bet 425,000. Garcia called fairly quickly but mucked face up when shown for aces up.
With about 1.1 million in the middle, Chris Hunichen checked in early position on . Sam Greenwood put in 650,000 from the button and Hunichen thought about a minute. He slid his cards to the dealer, conceding the battle of high rollers to the Canadian.
Mario Navarro opened the action with a raise to 125,000 from under the gun and was called by Martin Huk who was two to his left. The remaining players in position all folded, putting action on Adedapo Ajayi out of the small blind. He put in a raise to 530,000 and Navarro quickly folded. After about 35 seconds, Huk folded as well and Ajayi raked in the pot.
At the end of the hand, Ajayi apparently looked back at his cards and it caused Huk to ask him something along the lines of if he wanted action. Ajayi confirmed he would have loved action, saying that he had queens. Huk confirmed that was a good hand.
Ajayi then directed his attention to Navarro, asking if he had something along the lines of ace-queen. Navarro responded saying he had better than ace-queen, giving Ajayi respect with his preflop laydown.
Edward Pham was seen wishing the table good luck as he was eliminated from the tournament by Mostafa Ashkarkhizani.
According to Ashkarkhizani, Pham had shoved for his last million or so chips with and Ashkarkhizani woke up with in the small blind. The board ran out in a manner that not only eliminated Pham but gave Ashkarkhizani a set of jacks on the river as Pham was eliminated from the tournament just shy of the end of Level 25, with the tournament now running for nearly 50 hours worth of play.
On the river of a board , Jake Schindler pushed all in out of the blinds and Hossein Ensan asked for a count. The all in was for 1,050,000 and Ensan tank-folded to get shown the for a bluff.
Steven Parrott opened the action with a raise to 160,000 and Sejin Park moved all in from the small blind for a total of 1,155,000. Parrott gave it some thought and eventually called.
Sejin Park:
Steven Parrott:
The flop delivered a flush draw for Parrott and he immediately got there with the turn, the river was a formality and the Event #61: COLOSSUS - $400 No-Limit Hold'em champion to the payout desk.
Nicholas Marchington opened for 125,000 in the cutoff and was called by the player on his left before Preben Stokkan made it 525,000 in the small blind. Marchington made it 1.3 million and Stokkan peeled for a flop that checked through. They both checked the and as well, and Stokkan flipped over , which he mucked when Marchington showed .