$2,200 Eight-Max No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  9 of 167

Will Parker moved all in from middle position for 77,000, and Jake Schwartz min-raised from the hijack to 146,000 with . Parker turned over , and needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came , and Parker paired his nine kicker on the river to win the pot with two pair and double up in chips.

Will Parker  –  164,000  (16 bb)

A short while later, with the board showing on the turn and about 55K already in the pot, Will Parker checked the big blind, Andrew Barfield bet 20,000 from middle position, and Parker check-raised all in for 144,000. Barfield asked for a count and tanked for a while before he called with for a pair of aces.

Parker turned over for a pair of aces with a higher kicker, and he needed to avoid a five on the river to stay alive.

The river card was the , and Parker won the pot with his eight kicker to double up in chips.

Will Parker  –  360,000  (36 bb)
Andrew Barfield  –  422,000  (42 bb)

With nine players remaining, the average chip stack is about 371,000 (37 big blinds), and the next player to bust will earn $7,833.