$1,100 Eight-Handed NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  9 of 219

After a flop of , Javier Zarco moved all in from the big blind for 231,000, and Brian Altman called from middle position with for a pair of eights. Zarco turned over for a pair of sixes with an open-ended straight draw, and he needed to improve to stay alive.

The turn card was the , the river card was the , and Zarco turned trip sixes to win the pot and double up in chips.

Javier Zarco  –  525,000  (53 bb)
Brian Altman  –  704,000  (70 bb)

A few minutes later, Marvin Rettenmaier moved all in from the button for 168,000, and Brian Altman called from the big blind with . Rettenmaier turned over , and needed to improve to stay alive.

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

Marvin Rettenmaier  –  351,000  (35 bb)
Brian Altman  –  620,000  (62 bb)

And just like that, in a span of less than five minutes, Altman dropped from a chipleading stack of nearly a million to 620,000, putting him third in chips.