$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 22: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 126 of 2,923
Average Stack: 464,000 (29 big blinds)

“If he wins this one, you have to get him in the blog.”

Those were the words of someone at Table 24, in reference to Jonathan Gaviao, who was sweating his most recent in a series of all-ins. The Texas pro was down to just 3,000 chips during the last level, and he was at risk for his last 1,000 chip after posting the ante. Gaviao survived that shove, then several more thereafter, and he was all the way up to 126,000 prior to this hand.

Gaviao open-shoved that amount with , and he was called by an opponent with . The flop gave Gaviao a flush draw, and the turn guaranteed him yet another double up. The river was the meaningless .

A chip and a chair, and all that.

Jonathan Gaviao – 290,000 (18 bb)