$1,100 No Limit Hold’em Shootout
Level 6: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 70

Lawrence Paden opened to 6,000 in early position, and he was called by two players, including by Michael McNeil in the small blind.

The flop was . It checked to Paden, who continued for 20,000. The third player in the hand folded, but McNeil check-raised all in for 102,700 total. Paden talked though his spot, then said, “Well, I didn’t come here to win twenty-five hundred.” He called to put McNeil at risk.

Paden: (pair of tens)
McNeil: (set of nines)

The turn made things interesting for a moment, but the improved McNeil to quad nines, clinching his double-up.

Michael McNeil – 226,600 (94 bb)
Lawrence Paden – 11,000 (5 bb)