$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 23:  10,000/20,000/3,000 Ante

The field is down to about 120 players, with an average chip stack around 500,000 (25 big blinds). The players are in the money, all guaranteed at least $1,179, and the next pay jump is $1,269 for 110th place.

Chipleader Pedro Palacio’s table broke, and he was moved to seat 4 at Thomas Collazo’s table (Collazo is in seat 8). Palacio had a good lead on Collazo, until the following hand took place.

Collazo was in the big blind, and saw a flop of against the player on the button, who moved all in on the flop with (pair of queens). Collazo called with (pair of sevens).

The turn was the , giving the button a spade flush draw, but the river was the — Collazo won the pot with two pair, sevens and fives, to eliminate the button and cross the two-million mark in chips.

So now the two chipleaders are at the same table, with more than 2 million each.

Pedro Palacio  –  2,275,000  (113 bb)
Thomas Collazo  –  2,170,000  (108 bb)

They won’t be head-to-head much longer, as their table is coming up in the breaking order soon.