$200 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  74 of 2,056

After a flop of , Javier Rios bet 40,000 from UTG+1, Tom Curtis moved all in from the button for 195,000, and Rios tanked for a long time before he called with .

Curtis turned over for a pair of nines, and needed his hand to hold to stay alive.

The turn card was the , giving Rios a diamond flush draw, but the river card was the . Curtis won the pot with two pair, jacks and nines, to double up in chips.

Tom Curtis  –  540,000  (36 bb)
Javier Rios  –  700,000  (47 bb)

With 74 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 415,000 (28 big blinds), and the remaining players are all guaranteed at least $565 each. The next pay jump is $615 for 72nd place.