Event 9: Casey Kaplan Doubles Through Ryan Van Sanford

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 28: 30,000/60,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 33 of 2,923
Average Stack: 1,770,000 (30 big blinds)

Casey Kaplan (Coconut Creek, FL)
Casey Kaplan (Coconut Creek, FL)

The board showed Jc3h2dAs on the turn of a heads-up hand between Ryan Van Sanford and Casey Kaplan. Van Sanford bet 300,000 into a pot of about a million, and Kaplan called. The river was the 9c, and Van Sanford moved all in for 1,170,000 effective. Kaplan snap-called, flicking a single chip into the pot to put himself at risk.

Van Sanford tabled 5d6d for a miss. Kaplan showed TdTh, winning the big pot and doubling up with a pair of tens.

Casey Kaplan – 3,875,000 (65 bb)
Ryan Van Sanford – 450,000 (8 bb)