Jourdan Baptiste was all in under the gun for 333,000 chips against Majid Yahyaei in the hijack.
Jourdan Baptiste: J♠9♣9♥4♥
Majid Yahyaei: A♣Q♦J♦5♣
Baptiste flopped a set of nines that topped Yahyaei's two pair in a runout of 3♦5♥9♠Q♥2♠.
Action was picked up on the flop of 5♥J♠10♥, and Rudy Mamo was all in for 219,000 from the small blind, and Ludovic Geilich called from the hijack with the superior stack.
Geilich stated, "You are in great shape; we have the same hand."
Rudy Mamo: K♥K♦Q♠7♥
Ludovic Geilich: K♠K♣9♦5♣
Geilich would have improved if a five hit, but a chop was imminent as the turn dropped with the 4♣ and the river was the 2♠, and both players pulled their money back.
Level: 19
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 12,000
Action was picked up on the flop of J♦3♣A♦, and Matthew Saperstein was all in for his last chips from the hijack position, and he was called by Humberto Valdez from the big blind, who held the superior stack. The pot was about 440,000.
Saperstein stated, "That was a sick flop," and called for the royal flush.
Matthew Saperstein: A♥K♦Q♦4♥
Humberto Valdez: A♣8♣8♦6♣
The turn K♥ gave Saperstein two pair, and the river 5♦ brought him a flush, although not the royal; he was still very happy.
Saperstein warned the table, "I'm coming after bounties now."
Jourdan Baptiste raised to 20,000 from the cutoff. Katsumoto Sakaguchi called from the cutoff, as did Joel Gossett and Joseph Saltanovitz from the blinds.
When the flop landed J♥6♣6♠, Gossett moved all in for 116,000. Sakaguchi was the only caller.
Joel Gossett: A♣6♦5♣4♥
Katsumoto Sakaguchi: K♠K♥Q♥9♥
Gossett was well ahead with trip sixes, but the Q♠Q♦ turn-river pair flipped the script to give Sakaguchi three queens and the bounty.
"Are you serious?" Gossett said as he handed over his bounty slip.
Action was picked up with a ruckus at the table, as Joshua Billingsley was shouting in a celebratory manner. The board read J♠5♦Q♠K♣10♠, and the commotion was justified. Billingsley, who had gotten it in preflop against Kenneth Kong, was holding A♦A♠K♠J♦ for a rivered Royal Flush.
Kong could only look on in disbelief as, despite holding two sets with Q♥Q♦10♦10♥, he said goodbye to half his stack, as well as the opportunity of a bounty.
Just over two levels into the day, and one of the massive $100,000 bounties has already been pulled. Roussos Koliakoudakis is the lucky player who is now six figures richer, as just one top prize remains.
Additionally, of the four $50,000 prizes up for grabs, only two remain. The first went very early to Markus Anheier, with the second pulled shortly after by Jonathan Samuels. He had quite the reaction, leaping out of his chair and exclaiming "Holy sh*t balls!" Can you blame him?
Level: 18
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
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