$100 + $25 No Limit Hold’Em Deep Stack

“You have to gamble to win!” said the 3-seat on Table 31.

Several times.

He had every right to be happy and excited and stacking chips after knocking out two opponents as Level 5 was coming to an end.

Our hero in the 3-seat called an early position raise before the button responded by shoving in his small stack. The big blind took his time before reshoving and the 3-seat asked for a count. He called before a complete count was done when he realized he had both players covered only to see his was behind the button’s and ahead of the big blind’s .

It looked like the short-stack was going to get a much needed triple up when the flop came out and the on the turn did not change the situation. “Holy (expletive), did I just win that?”, the 3-seat said when the two-out hit the river. He then educated the table “You have to gamble to win!” and started stacking chips.

Only 90 players remain of the starting 175 entrants as they move into Level 7 with blinds at 250/500/50 ante and average moving closer to 20,000.