$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Flight E Players Remaining:  104 of 892

As the field nears the Money Bubble, there is a three-way all-in situation at Table 3, and Richard Rice has the best hand as he covers two other players, with Jac Guto all in for 31,000, and the player on the button all in for about 20,000.

Richard Rice:  
Jac Guto:  
Button Player:  

The flop comes safe for rice, falling . Guto is quietly chanting for a deuce, but the turn card is the , giving the player on the button a pair of queens to take the lead for the main pot.

The queen doesn’t change anything for Guto, who has been behind Rice the entire time, and Guto continues to quietly chant for a deuce.

The river card is — the !

Guto briefly celebrates as he rivers a set of deuces to scoop the entire pot, eliminating the player on the button and doubling thru Rice.

As for Rice, he started the hand in great shape, mainly looking to avoid just five outs — three queens and two deuces. But the queen on the turn took most of the pot away from him, and the deuce on the river took the rest.

Jac Guto  –  85,000  (17 bb)
Richard Rice  –  95,000  (19 bb)

With 104 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 171,500 (34 big blinds). Action will continue tonight until there are 90 players remaining, and they will bag up for Day 2, which begins Sunday at 1:00 pm.