APPT Main Event ($1,650)

Sven McDermott three-bets from cutoff and Dmitrii Belikov defends his raise. On the flop and turn T♣ K♦ 7♠ A♥ , McDermott fires 5000 and 10,000, Belikov check-calls both then both players run out of energy on the river 3♦ and check.

First to show Belikov has A♣ J♣ , McDermott's kicker plays A♦ Q♦ to rake in the pot.

Dmitrii Belikov re-raises 7000 preflop and Valeriy Fokin won't give up his raise that easy and makes the call. When the board runs J♠ A♣ K♦ 4♥ , Belikov bangs out 4000 and 5000, Fokin calls both. On the river 7♣ , Belikov makes it 20,000 to see his hand and well covers Fokin who doesn't risk it.

In another preflop raising war that saw all the chips go in the middle, Michael Falcon of Denmark is fighting for his tournament life against Russian monster stack Dmitrii Belikov.

Falcon turns over 9♥ 9♦ while Belikov shows he’s ahead with J♣ J♠ .

The flop is a safe one for the Russian: 7♠ A♦ T♦ , However, the turn is the 6♣ and the river is the 8♦ giving the Danish player a miraculous backdoor straight to not only extend his tenure in the Main Event, but to make him breach the 100,000 chip mark for the first time. Belikov has momentarily lost his chip dominance.