$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  126 of 4,529

In the last hand of Level 22, with the blinds at 10,000-20,000, Event 1 champion Joseph Rossi raised under the gun to 45,000, Andrew Koski moved all in from UTG+1 for 325,000, and Rossi tanked for a while before he called with .

Koski turned over , and needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came , and the pocket nines held up for Rossi to win the pot and eliminate Koski in 127th place.

Joseph Rossi  –  1,750,000  (70 bb)
Andrew Koski  –  Eliminated in 127th Place  ($2,160)

With 126 players remaining from a field of 4,529, the average chip stack is about 720,000 (29 big blinds). The remaining players are all guaranteed at least $2,340 each, and the next pay jump is $2,540 for 117th place.