Event 49: Mykhail Lendel – 3rd Place ($47,500)

$2,200 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $438,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  2 of 219

Mykhail Lendel
Mykhail Lendel

Mykhail Lendel was all in from the small blind for about 975,000 with Ks2c, and he needed to improve to stay alive against the AsAc of Jake Cody in the big blind.

The board came Qd9d9h3s3h, and the aces hold up for Cody to win the pot and eliminate Lendel in third place.

Mykhail Lendel  –  Eliminated in 3rd Place  ($47,500)

Here are the approximate chip counts for the start of heads-up play:

Kevin Eyster  –  3,350,000  (67 bb)
Jake Cody  –  2,125,000  (43 bb)

And here are the final table payouts:

1st:  $93,900 + Showdown Trophy
2nd:  $66,500

3rd:  Mykhail Lendel  –  $47,500
4th:  Jeremy Becker  –  $35,500
5th:  Tim Capretta  –  $27,000
6th:  Artem Metalidi  –  $20,500
7th:  Petre Bogdan Ionescu  –  $15,800
8th:  Gregory Back  –  $12,300
9th:  Scott Margereson  –  $9,600