Event 15: Eric Salazar Doubles Thru Sonia-Veronika Shashikhina

$600 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 30:  75,000/125,000 with a 125,000 ante
Players Remaining:  25 of 4,259

Eric Salazar
Eric Salazar

Sonia-Veronika Shashikhina raised under the gun to 250,000, Eric Salazar moved all in from the cutoff for 825,000, and Shashikhina called with Ah10d.

Salazar turned over KhKd, and needed his hand to hold to stay alive.

The board came 8c5c5s5d6s, and one more five on the board would have cracked Salazar’s kings. But the kings held up for Salazar to win the pot and double up in chips.

Eric Salazar  –  1,975,000  (16 bb)
Sonia-Veronika Shashikhina  –  1,625,000  (13 bb)

With 25 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 3,400,000 (27 big blinds), and the remaining players are guaranteed at least $7,850 each.