Akopov Approches Ten Million
The tournament has another contender approaching ten million chips after a large pot that took several minutes, as pay jumps get more and more significant.
On a paired flop of 
with approximately a million in the pot already, Matthias Kribben checked his small blind and Safwane Bari checked in the big blind. Boris Akopov then bet 375,000, and after deliberation from both opponents, they each called.
The river brought the 
, and after Kribben checked, Bahri bet 1,200,000.
After approximately three minutes of deliberation and counting his chips, Akopov moved all in. Kribben folded quickly, but after Bahri requested a count and the dealer counted Akopov's stack, then re-confirmed a total of 4,700,000 total, Bahri took some more time to think before ultimately folding and sending a huge pot across the table to Akopov.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
9,000,000 | |
|
4,200,000 | |
|
1,000,000 |