Championship: Darren Elias Doubles Thru Albert Barney, Jr.

$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 28:  50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining:  10 of 1,573

Darren Elias
Darren Elias

Andy Hwang raised from the cutoff to 175,000, Albert Barney, Jr. reraised from the small blind to 675,000, and Darren Elias moved all in from the big blind for 1,300,000.

Hwang folded, and Barney called with Ad10h. Elias turned over 7s7c, and needed his pocket pair to hold to stay alive.

The board came Qs9h6s7dKh, and Elias turned a set of sevens to win the pot and double up in chips.

Darren Elias  –  3,525,000  (47 bb)
Albert Barney, Jr.  –  4,000,000  (53 bb)


With 10 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 6.23 million (83 big blinds), and they are guaranteed to earn at least $79,455 each.

Action is scheduled to continue tonight until the end of Level 29, around 1:00 am.