Event 1: Toan Pham Doubles Thru John Stevenson in Biggest Pot of the Tourney So Far

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 31:  75,000/150,000 with a 150,000 ante
Players Remaining:  17 of 3,687

Toan Pham
Toan Pham

Al Norman raised from early position to 350,000, John Stevenson reraised from middle position to 825,000, and Toan Pham cold-four-bet it from the cutoff to about 2.0 million.

Norman folded, Stevenson moved all in, and Pham called all in for 5,725,000 with KsKd.

Stevenson turned over 10s10h, and Pham needed his kings to hold to stay alive.

The board came 9c8s6sQs3s, and with four spades on the board, Pham won the pot with a king-high flush to double up in the biggest pot of the tournament so far.

Stevenson was knocked all the way down to just two big blinds.

Toan Pham  –  11,825,000  (79 bb)
John Stevenson  –  300,000  (2 bb)

With 17 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 4,350,000 (29 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $6,985 each.