$1,100 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-out)
Level 26: 12,000/24,000/4,000 Ante

There hasn’t been much action during Level 26 (with one-hour levels at this final table), until this hand that came around the 30-minute mark.

Nacho Barbero raised from the button to 55,000, Tom Dobrilovic reraised from the small blind to 125,000, and Barbero tanked for a while before he called.

Both players checked to the turn on a board of , Dobrilovic checked, Barbero bet 85,000, and Dobrilovic moved all in for exactly 500,000.

Barbero asked for an exact count and thought for a bit before he called with for a pair of tens. Dobrilovic turned over (pair of eights), and he needed to improve to stay alive.

The river card was the , and Barbero won the pot with his pair of tens to eliminate Dobrilovic in third place.

Nacho Barbero  –  1,625,000  (68 bb)
Tom Dobrilovic  –  Eliminated in 3rd Place  ($22,338)

Here are the approximate chip counts as heads-up play begins with about 30 minutes remaining at 12,000-24,000 and a 4,000 ante:

Nacho Barbero  –  1,625,000  (68 bb)
Ricardo Alvarado  –  950,000  (40 bb)

1st:  $50,497
2nd:  $34,164