$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 26:  20,000/40,000/5,000 Ante

The field is down to 60 players, with an average chip stack around 1,000,000 (25 big blinds). These players are all guaranteed at least $1,958, and the next pay jump is $2,176 for 54th place.

Joe Reddick increased his stack with a knockout. He raised from the hijack to 110,000, and the woman on the button called, even though she only had another 70,000 behind. The flop came , and Reddick put her all in. She called with , but Reddick has her in bad shape with his . The turn was the , the river was the , and Reddick eliminated her to increase his stack a little higher.

Joe Reddick  –  2,350,000  (59 bb)

2011 EPT Grand Final winner Ivan Freitez is still among the chipleaders, though he took a hit when he was in the big blind and the small blind moved all in for 245,000 with . Freitez called with , and the board came to give the small blind a queen-high straight on the turn.

Ivan Freitez  –  2,150,000  (54 bb)

There are a lot of big stacks at Table 8, and a new one was just created as Travis Holloway doubled thru Hayden Fortini to reach the two-million mark.

Travis Holloway  –  2,000,000  (50 bb)
Hayden Fortini  –  1,080,000  (27 bb)

Over at Table 24, three players saw a flop of . Mike Chiappetta checked the small blind, the big blind moved all in for exactly 300,000, and the hijack tanked for a long time before he folded. Chiappetta called with for a pair of queens, and he dominated the big blind’s (pair of threes). The player in the hijack was upset because he claimed he folded queen-eight of diamonds and would’ve been in the lead.

But the turn was the , the river was the , and both players made two pair. Chiappetta won the pot with queens and sixes to eliminate the short stack and move up over the million-chip mark.

Mike Chiappetta  –  1,125,000  (28 bb)

Finally, Sam Panzica seems to be making a comeback after being short-stacked at the dinner break. He’s back up to 1.3 million.

Sam Panzica  –  1,300,000  (33 bb)