Event 1: Coelho Takes the Lead

$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 34: 150,000/300,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 5 of 2,692
Average Stack: 10,750,000 (36 big blinds)

Jon Borenstein (left) versus Vitor Coelho (right)
Jon Borenstein (left) versus Vitor Coelho (right)

Jon Borenstein took a good sized pot from Vitor Coelho to move further into the lead before Coelho did him one better.

We caught the action with those two heads up to the QdQdTc2h flop/turn and Coelho check/called a 1.4 million bet from Borenstein. Coelho checked dark before the 3d river and Borenstein bet another 3.6 million.

After a short tank, Coelho called the bet and Borenstein quickly tabled KdKc. The big pair wasn’t good enough as Coelho showed his flopped trip queens with QsJs.

It was a big shift with the two big stacks going at each other in consecutive hands. They still hold a comfortable advantage over the other three.

Jon Borenstein – 15,700,000 (52 bb)
Vitor Coelho – 22,250,000 (74 bb)