$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 30: 50,000/100,000/15,000 Ante
After a flop of , Tony Delacruz (hijack) had bet 1,000,000, and Kevin Butler moved all in from the button for 2,765,000. Delacruz tanked for a while before he called with for an overpair. Butler turned over for a set of fives, and he needed his hand to hold to stay alive.
The turn was the , the river was the , and Butler won the pot with his set of fives to double up to 5.5 million in chips.
Kevin Butler – 5,500,000 (55 bb)
Tony Delacruz – 2,245,000 (22 bb)
The field lost two players at the end of Level 29 — Rob LeBeau (27th) and Larry Hirschfield (26th).
Rob LeBeau – Eliminated in 27th Place ($6,149)
Larry Hirschfield – Eliminated in 26th Place ($6,149)
To balance the tables, Mike Ortiz is moved from Table 7 to Table 16, where he takes seat 8.
With 25 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 2.34 million (23 big blinds).