Championship: Good turn for Kuether

$5,300 Championship NLH $10 Million Guaranteed (Re-Entry)
End of Level 19: 3,000/6,000/1000 ante

On a flop of 8hKs2d, the player in seat 8 is in the hijack position and fires out about 70K. After tanking for a bit, Joseph Kuether makes the call from the button. The turn brings the Ac, prompting a check from both players. The river is the 3h. The player in seat 8 thinks it over, and puts out a stack of 100K. Kuether mulls it over for a while before finally announcing he was all-in. Seat 8 calls.

Kuether: AsAd
Seat 8: 8c8s

Kuether’s turned set of Aces trumps the player in Seat 8’s flopped set of eights, and Kuether rakes in the pot to eliminate his opponent. Kuether is sitting on just over 700K in chips.

Players are now on their 90 minute dinner break. When they return at 8pm, the blinds will be at Level 20: 4,000/8,000/1K ante. 150 players remain.