Event 15: Daniel Hamm Doubles Up

$600 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 24:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  84 of 4,259

David Lopez and Daniel Hamm
David Lopez (left) and Daniel Hamm

David Lopez limped from UTG+1 for 30,000, Daniel Hamm moved all in from middle position for 315,000, and the player in the small blind tanked for a while before he called.

Lopez went into the tank for a long time, eventually asking the small blind how many chips he had left in his stack. (The small blind had 355K behind.) Lopez eventually folded.

Hamm turned over JhJc, and needed it to hold to stay alive against the small blind’s 9h9d.

The board came QcJd4d3cQd, and Hamm flopped a set of jacks and rivered a full house to win the pot and double up in chips.

Daniel Hamm  –  720,000  (24 bb)

With 84 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 1,015,000 (34 big blinds), and the remaining players are guaranteed at least $2,960 each.