$1,100 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $372,480  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 27:  100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante
Players Remaining:  9 of 384

Samuel Kim raised from the cutoff, Steve Blackmon moved all in from the big blind for 4,050,000, and Kim called with a similar stack and showed .

Blackmon turned over , and it was a race situation between similar stacks.

The board came , and Kim flopped a gutshot straight draw, but improved no further. The pocket nines held up for Blackmon to win the pot.

Both chip stacks were counted down, and Kim had 4,175,000 to Blackmon’s 4,050,000. Blackmon gets a full double-up, while Kim is knocked all the way down to a single small blind of 125,000.

Steve Blackmon  –  8,400,000  (42 bb)
Samuel Kim  –  125,000  (<1 bb)

With nine players remaining from a field of 384, the average chip stack is around 4,275,000 (21 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $7,200 each.