$400 Deep Stack Turbo NLH (Re-Entry)
$30,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  5 of 179

Igor Evseev raised from the cutoff to about 100,000, Andres Jeckeln moved all in from the big blind for 530,000, and Evseev tanked for a long time before he called all in for a similar stack with .

Jeckeln turned over , and it was a race situation.

The board came , and Jeckeln flopped a set of eights to win the pot.

Both chip stacks were counted down, and Evseev had Jeckeln covered by just a single 5K chip. Jeckeln doubled up to more than 1.1 million.

Andres Jeckeln  –  1,120,000  (28 bb)
Igor Evseev  –  5,000  (<1 bb)

The next hand, Mikhail Shlapakou raised under the gun to 80,000, Igor Evseev called all in from the hijack for 5,000, and Sam Zalmanov called 80,000 from the big blind.

There was 60,000 in the main pot, and another 150,000 in the side pot between Zalmanov and Shlapakou.

Both players checked to the river on a board of , Zalmanov bet 50,000, and Shlapakou called. All three players showed their cards:

Sam Zalmanov:    (trip sevens)
Mikhail Shlapakou:    (two pair)
Igor Evseev:    (nine high)

Zalmanov won the entire pot with his trip sevens to eliminate Evseev in sixth place.

Sam Zalmanov  –  1,200,000  (30 bb)
Mikhail Shlapakou  –  450,000  (11 bb)
Igor Evseev  –  Eliminated in 6th Place  ($2,395)

With five players remaining from a field of 179, the average chip stack is around 715,000 (18 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $2,885 each.