Event 19: Vladimir Vasilyev Knocks Out a Player to Burst the Money Bubble

$2,200 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 16:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  52 of 413

Vladimir Vasilyev
Vladimir Vasilyev

Normally you expect the pace of bustouts to slow down as the Money Bubble approaches, but for this event, they seem to have sped up.

They reached 53 players to begin hand-for-hand play, and in that first hand, a player got it all in from the hijack for about 50,000 with KdKc, and needed it to hold to stay alive against the QsQh of Vladimir Vasilyev in the small blind.

The board came AcQc2h9cJh — Vasilyev flopped a set of queens, the short stack turned a club flush draw, and the river card was a blank. Vasilyev won the pot with his set of queens to eliminate his opponent and burst the Money Bubble.

After only one hand on the Money Bubble, the remaining 52 players are in the money, guaranteed at least $3,670 each.

Vladimir Vasilyev  –  130,000  (26 bb)

With 52 players remaining from a field of 413, the average chip stack is about 159,000 (32 big blinds).