Aces Cracked

After a series of bets and raises preflop, Joe Maggio moves all in and Nick Jivkov snap-calls. Both players look to have close to 1.4 milly. There's going to be a huge swing no matter who takes this down.

Maggio -  
Jivkov -  

The flop of    gives Jivkov and open-ended draw and a backdoor flush draw also.

While the  doesn't change anything, Jivkov catches the  river for the straight

The stacks are counted down and Jivkov has Maggio covered, the 1,399,000 going to Jivkov and Maggio's aces are cracked to eliminate him in 8th place in the biggest pot of the tournament so far.

Maggio cashes for $11,489.

Jivkov moves to 2,950,000

Blinds - 15k/30k
Antes - 4k
Remaining - 7/279

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