Wednesday, June 15, 2016 4:27 PM Local Time
Brian Hastings Climbs the Ladder
Jason Mercier: / /
Brian Hastings: / /
Yueqi Zhu has the bring-in. Jason Mercier calls with a , Brian Hastings completes with a , Zhu folds, and Mercier calls.
Hastings bets his lead on fourth street, and Mercier calls. Both players pair on fifth street, but Mercier is low with a pair of treys. He checks, Hastings bets, and Mercier calls. That action repeats on both sixth and seventh streets, with Mercier check-calling two more Hastings bets.
Hastings shows , winning the pot with a ninety-seven. He's climbed out of the basement over the course of the last hour, and he's now comfortably in third place on the leaderboard.
Brian Hastings - 635,000 (13 BB)
Jason Mercier - 2,150,000 (58 BB)