$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-out)
Level 18: 2,500/5,000/500 Ante

Anthony Zinno was all in from the big blind for 68,000 with , and he needed to improve to stay alive against the of Jonathan Duhamel (UTG).

The board came , and Zinno paired his ten on the flop to win the pot and double up in chips.

Anthony Zinno  –  140,000  (28 bb)
Jonathan Duhamel  –  98,000  (19 bb)

At the other table, Rayan Chamas raised from the button, Ryan Riess reraised to 23,000, and Chamas made it 51,000. Riess then five-bet it to 87,000, and Chamas tanked for a long time before he folded, showing one card — the . Riess took the pot to build his stack up to about 570,000.

Level 17 came to an end, and Level 18 began with increased blinds of 2,500-5,000 and a 500 ante. Here were their approximate chip counts at the start of Level 18:

TABLE 1
Seat 1.
Seat 2.  Rayan Chamas  –  215,000  (43 bb)
Seat 3.  Glen Cressman  –  45,000  (9 bb)
Seat 4.  Ryan Riess  –  570,000  (114 bb)
Seat 5.
Seat 6.  Javier Gomez Zapatero  –  50,000  (10 bb)

TABLE 2
Seat 1.  Jonathan Duhamel  –  75,000  (15 bb)
Seat 2.  Konstantinos Pantaridis  –  285,000  (57 bb)
Seat 3.  Zo Karim  –  80,000  (16 bb)
Seat 4.
Seat 5.
Seat 6.  Anthony Zinno  –  170,000  (34 bb)