Jonathan Duhamel raises to 1.3 million, his third raise in a row. He was batting .500 before this one, but he's improved that to .667 now as he takes the blinds and antes with no contest -- though there were a couple of sideways looks on down the line).
Duhamel opens to 1.25 million after everyone ahead of him folds. Michael Mizrachi gives his cards a long look before pitching them to the dealer. Matthew Jarvis does the complete opposite -- he moves all in from the big blind for 7.525 million more. Duhamel quickly cries "Uncle!" and mucks his cards.
Jason Senti raises to 1.125 million, and Joseph Cheong quickly folds. That sends the action to Dolan, and he takes his pause before cutting out a stack of reraising chips. After a moment, he slides out a three-bet to 2.525 million, but the action wasn't done yet. From the big blind, Michael Mizrachi decides it's cold four-betting time, and he makes it 8.525 million straight. That's enough to quickly fold Senti out of the way, but Dolan is not so quickly pacified. He takes about three or four minutes to consider before surrendering, and Mizrachi will add 4.35 million chips to his stack. He's at 18.6 million now.
John Racener raises to 1.3 million from middle position. Action folds around to fellow Floridian John Dolan in the small blind. He thinks for a little bit and then makes the call.
The flop comes down and Dolan is up first. He checks. Racener checks behind.
The turn card is the , completing a lot of draws. Dolan reaches for chips and fires out 1.775 million. Racener makes the call.
The falls on the river. Dolan puts out a bet of 3.55 million. Racener thinks for a little while and then makes the call. Dolan shows just a pair of queens with before Racener tables the to win the pot.
With this pot, Racener improves to 25.275 million while Dolan slips to 42.4 million.
The Italian Filippo Candio has the button in Seat 8.
From under the gun, Joseph Cheong raises to 1.025 million. This is the second rotation in a row that Cheong has raised from first position. Action then folds around to Matthew Jarvis in the hijack seat. He moves all in for 6.75 million. Everyone folds back to Cheong and he also folds.
John Dolan gets things started with a raise to 1.25 million from middle position. That raise also ends things after everyone else folds. Pass the chips to Dolan.
When the table folds around to the cutoff, Michael Mizrachi figures it's time to play a pot. He opens to 1.2 million, and he might well do that again as it's earned him 1.2 million in blinds and antes.
"Grind-er! Grind-er!" chants ring from the balcony.