$200 Big Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $200,000  |  Structure |  Payouts
Level 30:  75,000/125,000 with a 125,000 ante
Players Remaining:  4 of 1,130

Andreas Athanasopoulos limped from the cutoff for 125,000, Dmitri Zaitsev completed the small blind, and Minh Nguyen checked his option in the big blind.

The flop came , Zaitsev checked, and Nguyen moved all in for 485,000. Athanasopoulos thought for a while before he called, and Zaitsev folded.

Nguyen turned over for a pair of eights, but Athanasopoulos turned over for a pair of aces. Nguyen needed to improve to stay alive.

The turn card was the , the river card was the , and Athanasopoulos won the pot with two pair, aces and sevens, to eliminate Nguyen in fifth place.

Andreas Athanasopoulos  –  8,275,000  (66 bb)
Minh Nguyen  –  Eliminated in 5th Place  ($9,500)

With four players remaining from a field of 1,130, the average chip stack is around 4,250,000 (34 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $12,600 each.