On a completed board of Q♠8♠8♣Q♦Q♣, Josh Reichard in the small blind checked and Jesse Lonis bet 190,000 on the button. Reichard then check-raised to 800,000 and Lonis gave it brief consideration before he called.
Reichard tabled the A♠K♣ briefly as he was playing the board and Lonis won the massive pot with the K♦K♠ for queens full of kings.
Chris Vitch raised to 24,000 under the gun before a player in middle position three-bet to 68,000. Alejandro Lococo then four-bet to 160,000 on the button.
Action folded back to Vitch and he five-bet to 395,000. The middle-position player got out of the way, but Lococo moved all in and Vitch snap-called for 1,187,000.
Chris Vitch: A♥A♣
Alejandro Lococo: K♠K♦
It was the ultimate cooler with nearly 2,500,000 at stake. Both players watched the board run out J♣5♥2♥8♦4♣ as Vitch's aces held up to earn him a massive double up.
There was a three-way pot in progress on the river with a pot of about 245,000 in the middle. From early position, Francisco Perez Moreno bet 225,000.
Yaniv Shushan was on the button and tanked for a long time while he assessed the bet. Eventually the clock was called. The floor came over to count it down and with 1 second left, he spiked in the call.
But the hand was far from over as Kuan-Yu Lin was still to act from the big blind. He quickly jammed all in to which Shushan got up and clapped his hands in anger. Moreno quickly folded and action was straight back on Shushan who now had to decide for his remaining 240,000. It was time for another long tank as this time it was a decision for his tournament life. He took close to 5 minutes before releasing his cards. Lin did not show.
A couple hands later Shushan was all in with the A♠K♠ against the A♥K♣. Despite having the suited advantage the flop came with two hearts and the turn a heart as well to make for a major sweat. The river was a club to spare Shushan as he breathed a sigh of relief.
"My man is going through the ringer over here!" said a tablemate in reference to Shushan's double long tank and the near brutal elimination in the span of a rough 20 minute stretch for him.
