$300 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 24:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  6 of 335

Irfan Khairi opened the action from the cutoff and Justin Howard moved all in from the small blind. Jeremy Zides tanked several minutes but folded his big blind, later mentioning he folded pocket jacks in a tough spot. Khairi called and the hands were tabled.

Khairi:
Howard:

Both players had similar stacks and Khairi took the lead in the race on the flop. The turn and river were no help for Howard and they counted down the stacks. Khairi was all in for 585,000 and Howard had 595,000 to leave him with only 10K to play. He made it through a few hands but exited in seventh place for $2,596.

Irfan Khairi – 1,230,000 (41 bb)
Justin Howard – Eliminated in 7th place ($2,596)

The remaining players decided to forgo the next break to continue their march towards a champion.