$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-out)
Level 16: 1,500/3,000/500 Ante

Zo Karim min-raised under the gun to 6,000, Anthony Zinno moved all in from the button for 55,500, and Karim called with . Zinno turned over , and he needed his hand to hold to stay alive.

The board came , and the pocket deuces held up for Zinno to win the pot and double up in chips.

Anthony Zinno  –  117,500  (39 bb)
Zo Karim  –  132,000  (44 bb)

At the other table, after a flop of , Javier Gomez Zapatero was all in from the button for 83,500 with (pair of tens), and he needed his hand to hold to stay alive against the (open-ended straight draw) of Rayan Chamas.

The turn was the , the river was the , and Zapatero won the pot with two pair, jacks and tens, to double up in chips.

Javier Gomez Zapatero  –  208,000  (69 bb)
Rayan Chamas  –  180,000  (60 bb)

Back at Table 2, Zo Karim min-raised under the gun to 6,000, Jonathan Duhamel reraised from the small blind, and Karim moved all in. Duhamel called all in for 88,000 with , and he needed his kings to hold to stay alive against Karim’s .

The board came , and Duhamel flopped a set of kings to hold off Karim’s two pair, doubling his stack.

Jonathan Duhamel  –  181,000  (60 bb)
Zo Karim  –  95,000  (31 bb)