$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  46 of 1,180

A player raised to 40,000, Dimitri Vorbe called from the cutoff, and Thomas Carroll moved all in from the button for 255,000.

Carroll stood up and loudly said, “Double me up or send me home!”

From another table, Bob Mather asked, “Can we vote on that?”

As players were thinking, Carroll said, “I don’t want a call, but I’ll take a call.”

Action folded to Vorbe, and he tanked for a while.

Carroll said a few other things to kind of downplay his hand, but then he said, “Or I might have aces.”

Vorbe eventually called with , and Carroll turned over — .

The board came , and the pocket aces held up for Carroll to win the pot and double up in chips.

Thomas Carroll  –  600,000  (30 bb)
Dimitri Vorbe  –  2,060,000  (103 bb)

With 46 players remaining from a field of 1,180, the average chip stack is about 1,025,000 (51 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $18,145 each.

Action will continue tonight until the end of this level (about 12:20 am).