In a battle of the blinds, a pot of more than 1,100,000 emerged to the river and Dash Dudley bet the pot to give Andjelko Andrejevic all but two options: Surrender and have fewer than eight big blinds behind or call and possibly bust in 11th place. Andrejevic gave it some consideration and folded.

One hand later, Kyle Montgomery opened to 250,000 and Daniel Alaei called in the big blind. The flop brought and Alaei check-folded to a bet worth 300,000.