$250 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 34:  150,000/300,000 with a 300,000 ante
Players Remaining:  6 of 1,592

The remaining six players decided to run the numbers and quickly reached a deal.

Here were their chip counts at the time:

Ernesto Alvarez  –  7,950,000  (27 bb)
David Vurgait  –  6,250,000  (21 bb)
Charlemagne Benjamin  –  6,100,000  (20 bb)
Quan Phui  –  5,800,000  (19 bb)
Eric Kolodny  –  3,350,000  (11 bb)
Cangir Elcin  –  2,375,000  (8 bb)

Here were the resulting payouts:

Ernesto Alvarez  –  $30,673
David Vurgait  –  $28,374
Charlemagne Benjamin  –  $27,902
Quan Phui  –  $27,542
Eric Kolodny  –  $22,096
Cangir Elcin  –  $20,048

As the chip leader, Ernesto Alvarez was the official Event 2 champion of the Escalator VII Series for $30,673.

A recap of the event will be written later tonight.