$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool: $2,261,490 | Structure | Payouts
Level 38: 400,000/800,000 with an 800,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 6,853
Billy Ward moved all in from the small blind for about 5,500,000, and Niall Costigan quickly called from the big blind with 
.
Ward turned over 
and said, “I haven’t used my ‘one-time’ yet. I’m behind, so I might as well use it now.
The board came 
, and the “one-time” doesn’t work as the pocket jacks hold up for Costigan to win the pot. Ward is eliminated in fifth place.
Niall Costigan – 19,800,000 (25 bb)
Billy Ward – Eliminated in 5th Place ($77,000)
After the hand, Costigan tells the table that now that he’s reached the final four, he has locked up the biggest cash of his career. (His previous high was $78,000.) Costigan said he had set a New Year’s resolution to make a six-figure score this year, and he’s now guaranteed at least $102,000 here.
With four players remaining from a field of 6,853, the average chip stack is around 34,275,000 (43 big blinds).
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