The action began with Akos Gergely raising to 110,000 from the hi-jack with . Mecs from the small blind with three-bet jams all-in for 690,000 chips or a little less than 12 big blinds. Gergely calls setting up a coin-flip situation.
Gergely becomes a 57 percent favorite on the flop of with top-pair while with Mecs having 11 outs that potentially could turn things back in his favor. The spikes the turn sealing the deal for Mecs with Gergely now drawing dead to the river.
The completes the board, shipping a 1,470,000 chip pot to Mecs.
The action folds around to Nicolas Cardyn on the button who raises to 85,000 chips with . Mate Mecs goes all-in for 550,000 chips from the big blind with . Cardyn folds and Mecs now has his stack up to 695,000 with blinds about to go up to 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante.
From early position, Mate Mecs goes all-in with . Mecs takes down the hand with everyone folding due to the other players not getting any hands to call and Mecs playing tightly with his short-stack.
Akos Gergely raised to 85,000 from mid-position with . Nicolas Cardyn sitting to his left three-bets to 260,000 with . The action folds back to Gergely who four bets to 560,000. Cardyn tanks for a minute before folding.
Nicolas Cardyn opens the action with a bet of 85,000 from mid position holding . Sitting to left, Bhavin Khatri three-bets from with to 205,000 chips. Everyone else folds bringing the action back to Cardyn who tanked for over a minute before four-betting to 560,000 chips.
Khatri, currently sitting in second place to Cardyn, now tanked for over a minute before tossing his pocket jacks into the muck.