$600 Six-Max NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 13: 1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante
Players Remaining: 59 of 434
The player on the button moved all in, and Jason Young called all in from the small blind for 21,500 with . The button turned over , and Young needed his hand to hold to stay alive.
The flop came , though the queen was the last card revealed, giving Young a brief moment where he thought he had been outflopped. Instead, he was in a dominant position with a set of queens against a lower two pair.
The turn card was the , the river card was the , and Young won the pot with quad queens to double up in chips.
Jason Young – 48,000 (19 bb)
The next hand, the player in the big blind got it all in with against the of Aaron Thivyanathan in the small blind.
The board came , and Thivyanathan spiked a nine on the river to win the pot with a set of nines, eliminating his opponent.
The next hand, before Thivyanathan could finish stacking his chips, the player who doubled up Jason Young two hands earlier got it all in from the hijack with . But he was dominated and facing elimination against Thivyanathan’s on the button.
The board came — the short-stacked player flopped a gutshot straight draw, but improved no further. Thivyanathan won the pot with his pocket kings to eliminate yet another player.
Aaron Thivyanathan – 297,000 (119 bb)
With only three players left on the table, they paused to wait for new players, but instead it was their turn in the breaking order, and these players departed for their new seats elsewhere in the tournament field.
With 59 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 110,000 (55 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $840 each.