$200 Big Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool: $200,000 | Structure | Payouts
Level 30: 75,000/125,000 with a 125,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 1,130
Andreas Athanasopoulos limped from the cutoff for 125,000, Dmitri Zaitsev completed the small blind, and Minh Nguyen checked his option in the big blind.
The flop came 
, Zaitsev checked, and Nguyen moved all in for 485,000. Athanasopoulos thought for a while before he called, and Zaitsev folded.
Nguyen turned over 
for a pair of eights, but Athanasopoulos turned over 
for a pair of aces. Nguyen needed to improve to stay alive.
The turn card was the 
, the river card was the 
, and Athanasopoulos won the pot with two pair, aces and sevens, to eliminate Nguyen in fifth place.
Andreas Athanasopoulos – 8,275,000 (66 bb)
Minh Nguyen – Eliminated in 5th Place ($9,500)
With four players remaining from a field of 1,130, the average chip stack is around 4,250,000 (34 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $12,600 each.
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