$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: Blinds 1,200/2,400/300 ante

After the tournament staff announced that three more hands would be dealt at each table before bagging and tagging, Earl Barron decided that his 30,000-ish stack wasn’t worth bagging up. After folding the first hand, Barron decided he was just getting his chips in.

“Honestly, I didn’t even look,” Barron told us after bagging up.

As recapped to us by Barron, he was UTG+1 and shoved for about 30,000. Action folded to the player in the big blind who went into the tank. After Barron told him he shoved blind, the player in the big blind called with . Barron’s was dominated, but he flopped a flush to double up. Still, Barron wasn’t satisfied.

“Twenty big blinds going into Day 2? Nah, not enough.”

The following hand, Barron again shoved blind from under the gun for about 65,000. Three players called and proceeded to check down a board. Barron tabled for trip nines, besting his opponents’ , , and to bag up 262,900, good for second in chips overall on Day 1D.