Event 1: Jason Kmetetz Doubles Up

$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 25: 20,000/40,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 49 of 2,692
Average Stack: 1,098,776

A player in middle position raises to 80,000 and Jason Kmetetz three-bets to 220,000 on the button.

“How much do you have left?” asked the player in middle position.

“I’m not hiding anything,” said Kmetetz. “It’s all right here.”

The floor comes over and rules that a player is entitled to a “reasonable estimation” of his stack and Kmetetz breaks his stacks down into stacks of 20 chips. He has about 600,000 behind.

Middle position calls and they are heads-up to a flop of 9s6s4s. Middle position checks and Kmetetz moves all in for 625,000. His opponent goes into the tank for several minutes.

“Get the camera man,” said Kmetetz. “He’s either going to have a good victory or I’m going to win. It’s fifty-fifty.”

After some time in the tank, middle position calls.

“I probably lost,” said Kmetetz.

Kmetetz shows 10d10s and is in the lead against his opponent’s 8s8h.

The turn is the 5s and the river is the 10c, giving Kmetetz a double up to back over an average stack.

“Is it over?” asked Kmetetz.

Jason Kmetetz – 1,650,000