Ali Reza Fatehi opened to 42,000 and Ole Schemion called before Sergey Lebedev squeezed it to 115,000. Both his opponents called and they headed to a flop of . Fatehi was first to act as Lebedev sat on the button and the Iranian took down the pot with a bet of 125,000.

After the hand was over, he shook hands with his new table neighbor Mike McDonald.