Event 1 (Day 2): Steve Karp Triples Up

$350 Deep-Stack No-Limit Hold’em with re-entries ($150,000 Guaranteed)
Level 16: Blinds 3,000/6,000, Ante 1,000
Players Remaining: 87/733
Average Stack: ~253,000 – 42 bb

Following a flop of Qd4h3d, Steve Karp checked from the small blind. The player in the big blind (who registered today) checked as well, leading to a bet of 40,000 from Francis Margaglione from early position. Karp check-raised all in for 101,000, the player in the big blind went all in as well for about 110,000, and Margaglione called.

Karp: KcKh
Big Blind: QsJh
Margaglione: QcJc

Karp was in the lead with with pair of kings and held up through the 5h turn and 6s river to triple up to about 340,000. Margaglione dropped to about 390,000.