$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 35:  200,000/400,000 with a 400,000 ante
Players Remaining:  16 of 7,703

Eric Siegel moved all in from the button for 2,700,000, and Nicholas Carballo called from the big blind with .

Siegel turned over , and needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came , and the queen on the river gave Siegel kicker protection — both players finished with two pair, aces and eights, with a queen kicker.

It’s a chopped pot to save Siegel from elimination.

Eric Siegel  –  3,000,000  (8 bb)

With 16 players remaining from a field of 7,703, the average chip stack is about 9,625,000 (24 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $10,931 each.