$2,200 Deep Stack PLO (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  10,000/20,000
Players Remaining:  2 of 113

Richard Gayler raised to 50,000, and John Orfanos called.

The flop came , Orfanos checked, Gayler bet 40,000, and Orfanos called.

The turn card was the , Orfanos checked, Gayler bet 150,000, and Orfanos called.

The river card was the , and both players checked. Orfanos showed to win the pot with a ten-high diamond flush, and Gayler mucked.

And Orfanos, who had been down more than 12-to-1 in chips, now had a 2-to-1 advantage.

John Orfanos  –  1,500,000  (75 bb)
Richard Gayler  –  750,000  (38 bb)

$150 No-Limit Hold’em (Double Re-Entry per Day)
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Level 22: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining: 19 of 770

Table 14
Seat 1: Deonarine Itwaru – 325,000 (16 bb)
Seat 2: Walter Buss – 660,000 (33 bb)
Seat 3: Efthimios Piperakis – 190,000 (10 bb)
Seat 4: Noris Barcimanto – 215,000 (11 bb)
Seat 5: Mark Nahama – 180,000 (9 bb)
Seat 6: Lester Trimino – 1,040,000 (52 bb)
Seat 7: Israel De La Cerda – 360,000 (18 bb)
Seat 8:

Table 20
Seat 1:
Seat 2: Kevin Rines – 710,000 (36 bb)
Seat 3: Alfredo Fernandez  – 840,000 (42 bb)
Seat 4: Carlos Vasquez Torres – 420,000 (21 bb)
Seat 5:
Seat 6: John Jaramillo Prado – 600,000 (30 bb)
Seat 7: Sergio Alvez Sandoval – 980,000 (49 bb)
Seat 8: Manuel Jo – 560,000 (28 bb)

Table 27
Seat 1: Corel Theuma – 1,950,000 (98 bb)
Seat 2:
Seat 3: Joseph Patalano – 470,000 (24 bb)
Seat 4: James Tomblin – 300,000 (15 bb)
Seat 5:
Seat 6: James Quiles – 460,000 (23 bb)
Seat 7: Anthony Close – 480,000 (24 bb)
Seat 8: Kevin Murphy – 185,000 (9 bb)

Recent Eliminations
20th: Frank Russo – $715

21st: Eric Kolodny – $595
22nd: Andrew Del Rio – $595
23rd: Rebecca Dellagloria – 4595
24th: David Walker – $595

$2,200 Deep Stack PLO (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  10,000/20,000
Players Remaining:  2 of 113

John Orfanos was winning more than his share of pots for a while, slowly narrowing the gap between him and Richard Gayler.

Gayler raised to 60,000, and Orfanos called. The flop came , Orfanos bet 80,000, and Gayler called. The turn card was the , and both players checked.

The river card paired the board with the , and they checked again. Orfanos showed to win the pot with trip tens, and Gayler mucked.

A couple hands later, Gayler raised to 60,000, Orfanos reraised to 180,000, and Gayler called. Both players checked to the turn on a board of , Orfanos bet 360,000, and Gayler folded. Orfanos took the pot.

John Orfanos  –  1,000,000  (50 bb)
Richard Gayler  –  1,250,000  (63 bb)

A couple hands later, Gayler raised to 60,000, and Orfanos called. The flop came , Orfanos checked, Gayler bet 60,000, and Orfanos called. The turn card was the , and both players checked.

The river card was the , and they checked again. Orfanos showed to win the pot with a pair of eights, and Gayler mucked.

John Orfanos  –  1,125,000  (56 bb)
Richard Gayler  –  1,125,000  (56 bb)

And with that hand, John Orfanos came back from being more than a 12-to-1 underdog in chips to tying it up.

$2,200 Deep Stack PLO (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  10,000/20,000
Players Remaining:  2 of 113

After a flop of with about 360,000 already in the pot, John Orfanos got it all in for 106,000 more.

Richard Gayler:    (pair of fives)
John Orfanos:    (pocket queens)

The turn card was the , the river card was the , and Orfanos won the pot with a set of queens to double up in chips.

John Orfanos  –  575,000  (29 bb)
Richard Gayler  –  1,685,000  (84 bb)

$2,200 Deep Stack PLO (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 18:  8,000/16,000
Players Remaining:  2 of 113

After several heads-up hands, John Orfanos got it all in for 168,000, and they turned over their cards.

Richard Gayler:  
John Orfanos:  

The board came , and Orfanos flopped a set of queens and turned a full house to win the pot and double up in chips.

John Orfanos  –  336,000  (21 bb)
Richard Gayler  –  1,924,000  (120 bb)

$150 No-Limit Hold’em (Double Re-Entry per Day)
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Level 31: 10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining: 24 of 770

25th: Richard Arno – $505
26th: Halyna Zamani Buriachenko – $505
27th: Alan Gold – $505
28th: Ricardo Ruiz – $505
29th: Matthew Gallen – $505
30th: Ariel Williams – $505
31th: Michael Kurimsky – $505
32th: Enrique Goll – $505

$150 No-Limit Hold’em (Double Re-Entry per Day)
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Level 19: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 32 of 770

33th: Tonino D’Amore – $430
34th: Alberto Faur – $430
35th: Yigal Hen – $430
36th: Kevin Rodriguez – $430
37th: Tommy Scott – $430
38th: Zachary Smith – $430
39th: James Hamburger – $430
40th: Josias Cardoso Dos Santos – $430

$150 No-Limit Hold’em (Double Re-Entry per Day)
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Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 40 of 770

41st: Conner Sullivan – $375
42nd: Steve Moreno – $375
43rd: Roman Kornev – $375
44th: Shimon Trakhtenberg – $375
45th: Fernando Vega – $375
46th: Christopher Buggs – $375
47th: Devond Marshall – $375
48th: Jairo Velasquez – $375

$2,200 Deep Stack PLO (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 18:  8,000/16,000
Players Remaining:  2 of 113

Sean Shah was all in from the small blind for about 90,000, up against Richard Gayler on the button.

Richard Gayler:  
Sean Shah:  

The board came , and Gayler won the pot with ace high to eliminate Shah in third place.

Sean Shah  –  Eliminated in 3rd Place  ($24,634)

And here are the chip counts for the start of heads-up play, followed by the payouts:

Richard Gayler  –  2,040,000  (128 bb)
John Orfanos  –  220,000  (14 bb)

1st:  $66,671 + LHPO Trophy
2nd:  $41,245

$150 No-Limit Hold’em (Double Re-Entry per Day)
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Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 48 of 770

49th: Pablo Hernandez – $330
50th: Vitaly Chaika – $330
51st: Mitchell Range – $330
52nd: Amir Baron – $330
53rd: Ryan Hiller Jr – $330
54th: Richard Collier – $330
55th: Alexander Borukhovich – $330
56th: Adriana Udaeta – $330