Kontkanen Ousts Mrkaljevic

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Aladin Mrkaljevic min-raised from the hijack before Robert Kontkanen three-bet to 750,000. Mrkaljevic tanked for a minute before he called.

Kontkanen jammed the 9♦5♠2♦ flop. Mrkaljevic snap-called for 1.2 million and the cards were turned over.

Aladin Mrkaljevic: A♦J♦
Robert Kontkanen: A♣Q♦

Mrkaljevic bricks his flush draw and didn’t connect with his jack after the 6♥ turn and 10♥ river completed the board to exit the Grand Event in 16th place.

Robert Kontkanen – 8 million
Aladin Mrkaljevic – 0