$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 20: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 180 of 2,923
Average Stack: 325,000 (33 big blinds)

Mike Dentale opened with an under-the-gun raise, and Stuart Paterson called in the cutoff. The flop came . Dentale continued for 35,000, and Paterson called. The turn was the , and Paterson called another 60,000. The river was the . Dentale bet 100,000, and Paterson quickly called. Dentale tabled for the miss, and Paterson showed to win the pot with kings up.

“You know why I’m betting?” Dentale asked. “Because you can’t have kings there. You can’t. Good flat.”

A couple hands later, the two were involved in another big pot with the board showing . Paterson was leading the betting, and he fired 120,000 into a pot of about 200,000. Dentale tanked briefly, then folded. Paterson took his cue to table face-up on the felt, much to Dentale’s displeasure.

“I almost called,” Dentale lamented. “On my children, I almost called. What hand are you representing there?”

Paterson and Dentale have traded spots over the course of the last few hands, and the former is now among the handful of seven-figure stacks in the room.

Stuart Paterson – 1,030,000 (103 bb)
Mike Dentale – 375,000 (38 bb)