$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 37: 300,000/600,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining: 3 of 2,692
Average Stack: 17,950,000 (30 big blinds)

The three remaining players negotiated a nice little save for third place when Jon Borenstein was leading and James Salmon was third. Their places swapped and Borenstein will be picking up a little extra cash.

His final hand came when he shoved his third place stack from the big blind after Vitor Coelho opened to 1.3 million from the small blind. Coelho quickly called with . Borenstein was in trouble with and drawing very thin after the flop.

It was all over when the came on the turn to send Borenstein out in 3rd place.

Jon Borenstein – Eliminated in 3rd place ($59,657)
Seat 5: James Salmon – 33,500,000 (56 bb)
Seat 6: Vitor Coelho – 20,350,000 (34 bb)

$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 36: 250,000/500,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 3 of 2,692
Average Stack: 17,950,000 (36 big blinds)

We caught the action with the full board already out and Jon Borenstein facing a 3 million chip bet. It read and Borenstein eventually called to see Salmon’s nut flush . He mucked his hand and Salmon now has more than half of the chips in play.

Seat 1: Jon Borenstein – 11,500,000 (23 bb)
Seat 5: James Salmon – 27,000,000 (54 bb)
Seat 6: Vitor Coelho – 15,300,000 (31 bb)

$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 36: 250,000/500,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 3 of 2,692
Average Stack: 17,950,000 (36 big blinds)

Defending champ James Salmon was the bottom stack coming back from break but that quickly switched.

After a few minutes pause at the top of Level 36 to discuss a deal, they were back underway and Salmon opened to 1 million from the button to get calls from the other two.

Vitor Coelho and Jon Borenstein checked the flop before Salmon fired 1.2 million. Coelho pulled the min-check/raise to 2.4 million, Borenstein folded, and Salmon popped it again to 5.8 million total. Coelho called to see the turn and Salmon moved all-in after Coelho checked. The move was for 6,625 million and Coelho let his hand go to give Salmon the lead.

Seat 1: Jon Borenstein – 18,000,000 (36 bb)
Seat 5: James Salmon – 21,100,000 (42 bb)
Seat 6: Vitor Coelho – 14,750,000 (30 bb)

$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Returning to Level 36: 250,000/500,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 3 of 2,692
Average Stack: 17,950,000 (36 big blinds)

The last hand of the level was playing out even as the three remaining players rolled into the break. Then took a few minutes away from the break as well.

Jon Borenstein raised to 1 million from the small blind and James Salmon called to see the flop. They both checked and Borenstein fired 1.1 million after the turn. Salmon spite-called and Borenstein bet another 2.7 million when the river came .

Salmon went into deep thoughts and it looked like he was going to call quickly. Then he sat back and really took his time, finally giving Borenstein permission to call the clock. Salmon’s time was counted down and he finally called with queen-high .

And it was good.

Borenstein had promised to show no matter what and he tabled .

Seat 1: Jon Borenstein – 20,100,000 (40 bb)
Seat 5: James Salmon – 13,775,000 (28 bb)
Seat 6: Vitor Coelho – 19,950,000 (40 bb)

$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 35: 200,000/400,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 2,692
Average Stack: 13,500,000 (34 big blinds)

Jon Borenstein sent a few millions chips over to James Salmon when his fell against and he was getting some ribbing from Marcus Stein across the table.

“That needle is probably going to cost me,” Stein said as he shipped in his last 2 million from the small blind on the next hand.

Borenstein quickly called in the big blind with to dominate Stein’s . Stein couldn’t catch up as the board ran to send him out in 4th place.

Marcus Stein – Eliminated in 4th place ($50,717)
Jon Borenstein – 19,000,000 (48 bb)

$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 35: 200,000/400,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 5 of 2,692
Average Stack: 10,750,000 (27 big blinds)

It took two hands to get local favorite Lou Stadler off the final table.

In the first it was James Salmon all-in for 3.6 million with and Stadler called with . The flop was no good for Stadler and he was drawing dead after the turn.

He was left with only 1.1 million and moved all-in on the next hand with . Vitor Coelho called in the big blind with the dominant and hit the flop. The turn gave Stadler some chop outs but he was eliminated on the river.

Lou Stadler – Eliminated in 5th place ($42,076)
Vitor Coelho – 24,000,000 (60 bb)

$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 34: 150,000/300,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 5 of 2,692
Average Stack: 10,750,000 (36 big blinds)

Jon Borenstein took a good sized pot from Vitor Coelho to move further into the lead before Coelho did him one better.

We caught the action with those two heads up to the flop/turn and Coelho check/called a 1.4 million bet from Borenstein. Coelho checked dark before the river and Borenstein bet another 3.6 million.

After a short tank, Coelho called the bet and Borenstein quickly tabled . The big pair wasn’t good enough as Coelho showed his flopped trip queens with .

It was a big shift with the two big stacks going at each other in consecutive hands. They still hold a comfortable advantage over the other three.

Jon Borenstein – 15,700,000 (52 bb)
Vitor Coelho – 22,250,000 (74 bb)

$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 34: 150,000/300,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 5 of 2,692
Average Stack: 10,750,000 (36 big blinds)

Seat 1: Jon Borenstein – 20,250,000 (68 bb)
Seat 4: Lou Stadler – 4,300,000 (14 bb)
Seat 5: James Salmon – 1,800,000 (6 bb)
Seat 6: Vitor Coelho – 18,000,000 (60 bb)
Seat 8: Marcus Stein – 9,200,000 (31 bb)

$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 34: 150,000/300,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 6 of 2,692
Average Stack: 8,975,000 (30 big blinds)

Chris Scionti needed to make a move to put himself in contention but ran into the Jon Borenstein set-flopping buzzsaw.

Scionti had an overcard against Borenstein’s but was drawing dead to a running chop after the flop. The turn locked up the hand for Borenstein and sent Scionti out in 6th place.

Borenstein doubled up Lou Stadler on the hand before but he’s back near 20 million after knocking out Scionti.

Chris Scionti – Eliminated in 6th place ($33,515)
Jon Borenstein – 19,800,000 (66 bb)

$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 33: 125,000/250,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining: 7 of 2,692
Average Stack: 7,700,000 (31 big blinds)

The blistering pace continued. Two hands after Muhire was eliminated, Brent Philbin moved all-in from early position wit . Marcus Stein woke up to on the button and Philbin couldn’t find the bad beat save as the board ran .

Brent Philbin – Eliminated in 7th place ($25,036)
Marcus Stein – 9,600,000 (38 bb)