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Thanks to a couple of tipsters - including an especially helpful floorman and Mike Salvietti, who watched it all go down from the table - we have the pleasure to report on an especially epic hand of Texas Hold'em. Here's what went down:
Yuriy Kim opened for 200 during Level 2, raising the minimum of 100 chips. One opponent then tossed 300 into the pot, leading to a brief dispute over the sizing of his raise (some players believed he had to double the bet, but with Kim raising 100, this man's raise of 100 more was legal).
A third player in the hand decided to call the 300 wager, as did Kim, and the dealer fanned a flop of 
across the felt. An undetermined bet was made on the flop and all three players continued in the hand, with the 
falling on fourth street.
Kim decided to make a play at the pot and he fired out a bet of 1,000, with the player next to act raising it up to 4,000. The third member of the trio decided to flat the raise, as did Kim, and the river came 
to complete board. And that's when the fireworks began...
All three players couldn't wait to get their chips in the middle, with Kim and his two opponents each risking their stacks with all-in wagers and calls. Multiway action this early in a tournament is always a rare sight, so the players at the table collectively craned their necks to witness the collision.
Kim: 
Opponent 1: 
Opponent 2: 
One player rolled over the nut flush with big slick in clubs, while the other triumphantly tabled what he believed for all the world to be the trump cards with his eights full of sevens. Kim was the real monster under the bed though, as his flopped straight flush draw had turned into the best hand he'll hold in a long while. With a straight flush to the eight Kim had his crestfallen opponents crushed, and just like that he surged to the top of the leaderboard courtesy of one of the coolest coolers we can remember.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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55,000 | |
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20,000 |