Emanuele "BudSpencer" Monari limped the small blind and called a raise to 4 million by Trygve "FullSendWig" Leite in the big blind. Monari check-called a first barrel of 2,719,200 on the flop and did so again for 9,258,800 on the turn.

Both players opted to check the river and Monari won the first big pot of heads-up action with versus .