Event 5: Howard Mash Hanging Around

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 56 of 1,804
Average Stack: 322,000 (20 bb)

Howard Mash (Coral Springs, FL)
Howard Mash (Coral Springs, FL)

The player in the cutoff opened with a big raise to 70,000. Howard Mash was in the big blind, and he addressed the dealer: “Red button, please,” Mash requested, referring to the all-in button. He moved in for 110,000, and the cutoff called to put him at risk.

Cutoff: KdJh
Mash: AsKs

The board ran out 5d3c2sThQc, and Mash doubled up with ace-high. He won back-to-back events at the Coco Poker Open last year, and he’s worked his stack back out of the danger zone in this event thanks to that double-up.

Howard Mash – 254,000 (16 bb)