High Roller: Arkadiy Tsinis Takes the Lead From Ping Liu

$25,500 High Roller NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | StructurePayouts
Level 15:  8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 ante
Players Remaining:  8 of 41

Arkadiy Tsinis
Arkadiy Tsinis

Arkadiy Tsinis raised from middle position to 27,000, Ping Liu reraised from the big blind to 108,000, and Tsinis thought for a while before he called.

Both players checked to the turn on a board of KdQd4s2h, Liu bet 70,000, and Tsinis tanked for a while before he called.

The river card was the 5s, Liu bet 135,000, and Tsinis called. Liu showed Kh8h for a pair of kings, but Tsinis turned over AhAc to win the pot.

Arkadiy Tsinis  –  850,000  (71 bb)
Ping Liu  –  800,000  (67 bb)

Two hands later, Level 14 ended, and the players took a break, with the blinds increasing to 8K-16K (16K ante). Here are their official chip counts from the break

Seat 1.  Jared Jaffee  –  242,000  (15 bb)
Seat 2.  Alex Turyansky  –  209,000  (13 bb)
Seat 3.  Jonathan Jaffe  –  702,000  (44 bb)
Seat 4.  Ping Liu  –  794,000  (50 bb)
Seat 5.  Kevin Rabichow  –  491,000  (31 bb)
Seat 6.  Byron Kaverman  –  402,000  (25 bb)
Seat 7.  Arkadiy Tsinis  –  879,000  (55 bb)
Seat 8.  Maria Ho  –  432,000  (27 bb)

With eight players remaining, the average chip stack is about 513,000 (32 big blinds), but only the final seven will finish in the money. Here are the payouts:

1st:  $364,571
2nd:  $232,921
3rd:  $146,842
4th:  $101,270
5th:  $70,889
6th:  $55,699
7th:  $40,508