$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 23: 10,000/20,000/3,000 Ante

With 88 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 665,000 (33 big blinds).

Cord Carcia has been on a bit of a roller coaster. He was the first player over a million in chips, and he was way over a million when nobody else even had half as many chips. But he took some hits to drop down to 540,000 about a level ago.

Since then, Garcia has rebounded big, capped off by playing three hands in a row against the player to his right. Garcia won the first hand, and in the second hand they got it all in on the turn with two aces on the board — Garcia had A-Q for trip aces, and his opponent turned over pocket fives for … well, pocket fives. Garcia doubled up to more than a million.

The next hand, the same player put in his last 200,000 or so with , and Garcia called with . The flop teased his opponent as the board came , but Garcia turned a heart flush to finish off his opponent and finish that stretch of action with more than 1.4 million in chips.

Cord Garcia  –  1,465,000  (73 bb)

Chipleader Peter Walsworth is the first player to reach 2 million in chips.

The overall chipleader appears to be Peter Walsworth, who has been among the big stacks for a while now. Luis Santoni moved all in under the gun for 370,000, and Walsworth called from middle position. The big blind folded , saying he would’ve called if Walsworth hadn’t. Santoni turned over , but he was dominated by Walsworth’s .

The board came , and Walsworth won the pot with his kings to bust Santoni and catapult to more than 2.1 million in chips.

Peter Walsworth  –  2,140,000  (107 bb)
Luis Santoni  –  Eliminated

Nancy Birnbaum was getting short when she moved all in over a raise from the small blind with . Her opponent called with , and the board came — Birnbaum doubled up to nearly 500K.

Nancy Birnbaum  –  489,000  (24 bb)

Cong Pham got it all in from the button for 463,000 with , and he was against the big blind, who had a similar stack and . The flop hit them both, but the turn was all Pham as it came , and Pham won the pot with trip tens. The stacks were counted down, and Pham had his opponent covered by about 30,000 in chips. Pham nearly doubled while his opponent was eliminated.

Cong Pham  –  930,000  (47 bb)

Jeffrey Trudeau is nearing the Millionaires’ Club after he eliminated a short stack on a bad beat. The short stack got it all in with , and Trudeau had . But the board came , and Trudeau won it with a pair of fours.

Jeffrey Trudeau  –  960,000  (48 bb)