Event 5: Santana Noronha Catches Aces at the Right Time

$1,700 Deepest Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  20 of 398

Santana Noronha

On the next hand after Matthew Zarcadoolas was eliminated, Santana Noronha opened from under the gun and then the stacks started going in. Saber Salum Penayo shoved, Rocky Hicks shoved, and Santana Noronha was sitting there waiting.

“Look at this!” he yelled Zarcadoolas as he was walking away.

Noronha called all in as well. Hicks had the biggest stack at ~300,000 with Noronha holding ~175,000 and Penayo the shortest of the three.

Noronha: AcAs
Hicks: AhQd
Penayo: KcQh

Noronha was ahead and the board ran clean 7h5h3cTd4h to send him the pot. Penayo was eliminated in 23rd place and Hicks was knocked near the felt, eliminated soon after.

But not before Paul Chang was knocked out nearby while Noronha was picking up aces.

Santana Noronha – 525,000 (26 bb)

21st: Rocky Hicks – $4,565
22nd: Paul Chang – $4,565
23rd: Saber Salum Penayo – $4,565

Rocky Hicks