$600 Badugi (Re-Entry)
Structure  |  Payouts
Level 15:  8,000/16,000 Limits
Players Remaining:  7 of 48

When the seat was randomly determined for the button for the first hand at the final table, it went to seat 1 — which meant short stack Kenneth Po would be forced all in from the big blind on the very first hand.

So Po was all in for 8,000, and action folded to Ryan Hoenig, who called from the small blind.

Draw #1:  Hoenig took one card, and Po took one card.

Draw #2:  Hoenig took one card, and Po stood pat.

Draw #3:  Hoenig took one card, and Po stood pat.

Po turned over a queen-high badugi with .

Hoenig turned over his first three cards — — before looking at his final card. He’d need a non-pairing spade that was a queen or lower to win the pot, but it was the , so he only had a three-card hand.

Po won the pot with his queen-high badugi to double up in chips.

Kenneth Po  –  16,000  (1 BB)
Ryan Hoenig  –  315,000  (20 BB)

With seven players remaining from a field of 48, the average chip stack is around 205,000 (13 Big Bets). The final six players will finish in the money, with a min-cash worth $1,500.