5K HR ($5,000)

Once again folded to him, Akihiro Konishi of Japan opens shoves his remaining 595,000 from the hijack and this time gets a caller in Belgium’s Thomas Boivin in the sb.

Konishi tables K♣ T♣ while Boivin dominates with A♥ T♥ .

The runout goes: J♦ 4♥ 5♣ 8♠ 8♥ as ace-high is good enough to knockout Konishi and bring the competition down to the final seven players now all guaranteed US$25,554.

On the seventh hand of the Final Table, Japan’s Akihiro Konishi has the action folded to him on the button and he raises to 140,000. Monster stack Michel Molenaar of the Netherlands makes a 3-bet shove from the bb. Konishi calls and puts the rest of his stack worth 260,000 in the middle of the table.

Molenaar shows J♥ J♦ while Konishi tables a measly 7♦ 6♣ .

The flop comes 5♣ T♣ A♥ but then the turn is the 4♦ and the river is the 8♠ to give Konishi an unlikely backdoor straight to stay alive with an almost decent stack of 595,000. Molenaar hardly felt the hit but it was a hit nonetheless.

Akihiro Konishi of Japan and Belarusian Aliaksandr Shylko go all-in preflop and reveal their holdings: A♠ 5♦ for Konishi and A♦ 9♦ for Shylko.

The runout goes: K♦ Q♣ 2♣ 4♦ 4♥ as both kickers don’t play and the pot is chopped.

Japan’s Akihiro Konishi open-shoves from the cutoff for his last 235,000 and gets isolated in the sb by (again) Ian Lee of Hong Kong.

Konishi tables K♦ 2♥ while once again Lee is ahead with A♠ 6♣ .

The flop changes nothing: 4♥ 8♣ 7♥ but the turn card is the K♥ to give the Japanese player the lead and the river even pads it when the 2♦ shows.

The double-up for Konishi also drags Lee to below the seven-figure chip mark.

Japan’s Akihiro Konishi opens from the hijack to 40,000 and gets re-raised by Dinesh Alt of Switzerland on the button to 110,000. When it gets folded back to Konishi, the Japanese player 4-bets to 280,000.

Alt goes into the tank and burns a Time Bank card before eventually conceding the hand to Konishi.