Championship: A Bad Stretch for Aaron Mermelstein as Jerry Wong Four-Bets Him and then Geoffrey Hum Doubles Thru Him

$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | StructurePayouts
Level 23:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  29 of 988

Aaron Mermelstein
Aaron Mermelstein

Milen Stefanov raised from the button to 60,000, Aaron Mermelstein reraised from the small blind to 210,000, and Jerry Wong thought for the full 30 seconds before four-betting from the big blind to 460,000.

Stefanov folded, and Mermelstein used two of his Time Chips to tank for more than a minute before he also folded. Wong took the pot.

Jerry Wong  –  2,065,000  (83 bb)
Milen Stefanov  –  2,675,000  (107 bb)
Aaron Mermelstein  –  1,460,000  (58 bb)

Jerry Wong
Jerry Wong

A short while later, Geoffrey Hum got it all in from the button for 485,000 with JsJh, and he needed his hand to hold against the AdQc of Aaron Mermelstein, who was UTG+1.

The board came 10h5h3s4s5s, and the pocket jacks held up for Hum to win the pot and double up in chips.

Geoffrey Hum  –  1,075,000  (43 bb)
Aaron Mermelstein  –  590,000  (24 bb)

Geoffrey Hum
Geoffrey Hum

With 29 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 1,365,000 (55 big blinds), and the remaining players are all guaranteed at least $16,245 each.

Here are the players who were most recently eliminated:

30th:  Jebhar Patterson  –  $16,245
31st:  Steven Sarmiento  –  $16,245
32nd:  Joshua Ray  –  $16,245