Event 1: John Two-Bears Doubles Up with Pocket Queens to Take the Lead with 11 Million

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 32:  100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante
Players Remaining:  19 of 4,699

John Two-Bears
Chipleader John Two-Bears

With the blinds at 75K-150K, John Two-Bears raised to 375,000, his opponent reraised to 975K, and Two-Bears called.

The flop came Jd8d7c, Two-Bears bet 800,000, his opponent moved all in, and Two-Bears called all in for 4,200,000 with QxQx for an overpair,

His opponent turned over AxJx for top pair, and Two-Bears needed his hand to hold to stay alive.

The turn card paired the board with the 7h, the river card was the 5h, and the pocket queens held up for Two-Bears to win the pot and double up into the chip lead.

John Two-Bears  –  10,725,000  (72 bb)

A short while later, the level ended and the players took a 15-minute break. There were four players with at least 7.5 million in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  John Two-Bears  –  11,000,000  (55 bb)
2.  Ben Boston  –  9,125,000  (46 bb)
3.  Gilles Dalco  –  8,825,000  (44 bb)
4.  Joel Gossett  –  7,950,000  (40 bb)

With 19 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 4.95 million (25 big blinds).