$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 21: 6,000/12,000/2,000 Ante

The remaining 154 players or so return from break to begin Level 21, with blinds at 6,000-12,000 and a 2,000 ante. The average chip stack is about 380,000 (32 big blinds).

Scanning the field during the break revealed nine players with at least 800,000 in chips, and three with at least 1 million. Here’s the top of the leaderboard:

1.  Cord Garcia  –  1,357,000  (113 bb)
2.  Mukul Pahuja  –  1,121,000  (93 bb)
3.  David Nefzger  –  1,034,000  (86 bb)
4.  Edgar Varas  –  954,000  (80 bb)
5.  Dusty Nelson  –  936,000  (78 bb)
6.  Raj Vohra  –  902,000  (75 bb)
7.  Tony Delacruz  –  863,000  (72 bb)
8.  Pasquale Caiazza  –  821,000  (68 bb)
9.  Jeffrey Trudeau  –  812,000  (68 bb)

Shortly before the break, Dermot Blain (here all the way from Ireland) was all in for his tournament life. Cong Pham raised from the hijack to 22,000, Blain moved all in for 89,000, and Pham thought for a bit before he called with . Blain turned over , and needed it to hold to stay alive.

The board came , and the pocket sevens held up for Blain to double up in chips.

Dermot Blain  –  202,000  (17 bb)
Cong Pham  –  470,000  (39 bb)