$400 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 15:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining:  20 of 151

Joey Bloch raised from the button to 9,500, Matthew Waxman reraised from the small blind to 35,000, and Bloch moved all in for about 180,000.

Waxman quickly called with , and Bloch turned over . Bloch needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came , and Waxman turned a set of eights to win the pot and eliminate Bloch two spots away from the money — and take the chip lead.

Matthew Waxman  –  388,000
Joey Bloch  –  Eliminated

With 20 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 113,000 (28 big blinds). The final 19 players will finish in the money, earning at least $885 each.

Hand-for-hand play is now underway until one more player is eliminated.