Hands #2-5: Early Exchanges
Hand #2: Eduards Kudrjavcevs opened to 500,000 under the gun. Andrey Zaichenko three-bet to 1,300,000 from one seat over. Kudrjavcevs folded.
Hand #3: Jeremiah Miesen, on the cutoff, opened to 550,000. He got no action.
Hand #4: Galen Hall raised to 500,000 from middle position. Miesen three-bet to 1,200,000 from the hijack. Niels Herregodts, on the button, four-bet shoved for around 9,000,000. Everyone folded.
Hand #5: Hall limped under the gun along with Zaichenko in the small blind. Alexander Kuzmin, in the big blind, checked.
The flop came . Zaichenko and Kuzmin checked. Hall bet 300,000. Zaichenko check-called. Kuzmin folded. The turn brought the and was checked through to the . Again, both players checked. Zaichenko showed to win the pot. His opponent mucked.