Carlos Vallve Arias started the action with a raise to 500 and it was called by Vincent Gabel one seat over before Junichi Nakanowatari, in the cutoff, three-bet to 1,600. Both Arias and Gabel called.
The flop appeared and it was checked to Nakanowatari player who continued for 2,600. Only Arias stayed in the pot.
The turn was the and Arias before facing a bet worth 12,500 from Nakanowatari. Arias tanked for some time before raising it to 25,000, leaving him with 10,000 behind. Nakanowatari ended up folding his cards reluctantly.
An already big pot got even bigger on the turn when James Chen checked out of the small blind and called a bet worth 11,100 by Ali Reza Fatehi to see the on the river. Chen checked again and Fatehi moved all in for 13,700, Chen called after some consideration.
Fatehi turned over for the second nut flush and Chen mucked . He was left with 600 chips and busted shortly after when Noam Makavy rivered a wheel with .
On the river of a board , Mario Adinolfi in the small blind checked and faced a bt of 8,600 by Michael Tureniec in the cutoff. Adinolfi let go and dropped chips once more. Further assorted counts can be found below.
Diego Falcone check-raised the turn from 1,100 to 3,800 and his sole remaining opponent Samuel Gagnon on the button folded.
One hand later, Falcone opened to 300 and Jiang Chen three-bet to 900, Falcone made the call. After the flop, Chen check-called a bet of 1,000 and checked again the on the turn. Falcone now made it 2,600 to go and that won the pot.
"Nice one," Hans Vestin said as Stanislav Ivanov dragged in the pot and Zac Youness had disappeared after a mere 20 minutes.
According to Balazs Biri and Ivanov, it was Biri that opened and received two callers. A three-bet to 900 by Youness was called three ways and the flop came and only Youness check-called a bet of 2,000. He then bet the turn for 6,500 to receive a call by Ivanov before moving all in after the river.
Ivanov called with for the nut flush and Youness tabled kings without a heart. Soon after, Youness re-entered to become the first player to fire a second entry in the tournament.