$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 37: 250,000/500,000/50,000 Ante

Level 36 comes to an end, and the players take their first break of the final table. With four players remaining, the average chip stack is about 15.1 million (30 big blinds).

Here are the official chip counts from the table, followed by the final table prizepool:

Seat 2.  Thomas Collazo  –  10,775,000  (22 bb)
Seat 3.  Ivan Freitez  –  11,125,000  (22 bb)
Seat 8.  T.J. Shulman  –  13,925,000  (28 bb)
Seat 9.  Taylor Fortini  –  24,500,000  (49 bb)

1st:  $155,697
2nd:  $101,721
3rd:  $66,680
4th:  $55,983

5th:  Jake Melen  –  $45,557
6th:  Jake Rolnitzky  –  $35,811
7th:  Marcus Stein  –  $26,291
8th:  Mike Chiappetta  –  $17,679
9th:  Pedro Palacio  –  $12,692

When the players return to the table, they started playing the first hand. Ivan Freitez raised under the gun to 1,500,000, Thomas Collazo moved all in from the big blind for 10,725,000, and while Freitez was in the tank, they began serious chop negotiations that  continued for a long time while the hand is still in progress.

Negotiations are complicated by the fact that Freitez is from Venezuela, which means about 30% of his winnings will be withheld.

Eventually, after 15 minutes, negotiations stall, and the hand continued. Freitez folded, and Collazo turned over as he collected the pot.

There are about 25 minutes remaining in Level 37.