In a hand that lasted over ten minutes, Alejandro Lococo raised to 25,000 in the cutoff and was called by Rahul Rastogi on the button.
Brandon Lulov then three-bet from the small blind to 110,000. Lococo cut out and counted several hundred thousand chips in front of himself, then four-bet to 258,000.
Rastogi got out of the way and folded, then literally got out of the way as he stood up from between the two combatants.
More players at the table would stand or wander for a bit as Lulov went into the tank for a couple of minutes before five-betting to 475,000, leaving just over 900,000 behind.
Lococo then went even deeper into his personal tank as over the span of over five minutes while he deeply thought through his decision, he kicked off his slides, examined Lulov and his chip stack, stood up briefly then sat down again, examined Lulov further, then slowly stroked the thick hair of his beard below his bottom lip.
Ultimately, the 7th place finisher in last year's Main Event folded to send the dramatic pot to Lulov.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
1,500,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
|
1,453,000
397,000
|
397,000 |
|
1,100,000 | |
|
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and Matteo Cavelier checked over to the button who continued for 80,000. Cavelier called.
, also putting a flush on the board. After considering for about a minute, the button once again fired, this time for 180,000. Cavelier took a minute before putting in the call.
and the button then overbet jam into the pot of roughly 660,000. Cavelier snap-called and showed 
for the flopped full house.
for king high.
flop to see the 
spiked the river to give Alshanti a wheel, besting Ho's pocket jacks. Ho then made his way to the payout desk.
. Zhang won with his 
. The cutoff called Zhang's river bet and then mucked after the chip leader took the pot down with his 
.
flop. The 
turn checked through. Zhang then put his opponent all-in on the 
river. 
flop, then on the 
and Zhang showed 
flop was checked to the 
turn. Lewis bet 78,000 and Keating called.
, Loni Hui had a bet of 75,000 sitting in front of her, and the small blind check-raised to 200,000. Hui countered with a reraise to 450,000 from the cutoff and the small blind announced all in. Hui quickly called off her stack of 1,075,000 and the cards were on their backs.
on the turn gave her some more outs with a flush draw. It was the 
on the river that got the eyebrows raised from the rest of the table as Hui managed to survive for a double-up.
