$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 30: 50,000/100,000/15,000 Ante

Marcus Stein was the short stack (3 big blinds) with nine players remaining when the table stopped to seriously discuss a chop — now he’s chipleader.

Shortly after play resumed, with blinds at 40K-80K, Stein was all in UTG+1 for 450,000, and John DePersio called from middle position with . Stein turned over , and he’d need to improve to stay alive.

The board came , and Stein turned two pair to win the pot and double up in chips.

Marcus Stein  –  1,110,000  (13 bb)
John DePersio  –  990,000  (12 bb)

Stein has steadily chipped up since then, and there wasn’t any all-in-and-call situations for a surprisingly long time.

Then, with the blinds at 50K-100K, Michael Fryett moved all in under the gun for 630,000, and Marcus Stein moved all in over the top from the hijack for more than 2 million. Everyone else folded.

Fryett turned over , and he needed his hand to hold to stay alive against Stein’s .

The board came , and Stein won the pot with a full house, queens full of aces, to eliminate Fryett in ninth place. Not only that, but former short-stack Marcus Stein is the new chipleader at this final table.

Marcus Stein  –  3,050,000  (30 bb)
Michael Fryett  –  Eliminated in 9th Place  ($3,557)