$800 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $2,070,585  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 34:  500,000/1,000,000 with a 1,000,000 ante
Players Remaining:  5 of 2,937

As the final table has dwindled from nine players down to five during the past 40 minutes or so, Duc Vu has been on a hot streak (including two of the four knockouts), and he continues to build his chip stack to contend with Josh Hillock for the lead.

Johnny Bromberg raised from the cutoff, and Duc Vu called from the small blind.

Both players checked to the turn on a board of , Vu checked, Bromberg bet 4,500,000, and Vu called.

The river card was the , and both players checked. Vu showed for a rivered set of sevens, and Bromberg mucked.

Duc Vu  –  105,300,000  (132 bb)
Johnny Bromberg  –  36,000,000  (45 bb)

A short while later, after the blinds increased to 500,000-1,000,000, Vu played a pot against Chase Hounshell on a board of .

There was a sizable pot in the middle, and Vu moved all in from the hijack. Hounshell thought for a while before he folded, and Vu took the pot.

Duc Vu  –  114,000,000  (114 bb)
Chase Hounshell  –  25,500,000  (26 bb)

With five players remaining from a field of 2,937, the average chip stack is around 58,700,000 (59 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $74,000 each.