Event 6: 2nd Place - Lightner

$200 + $30 Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 150k/300k/40k ante

Reece Lightner (Hollywood, FL) 

$26,738

Reece Lightner is down 2-to-1 in chips and poised for a double-up, but the river sends him home in second place.  "It's alright," says Lightner, who is runner-up to Sal Popolo, "he was a head preflop, and that's it."

Lightner takes the lead on a 6-high flop with A6, but Popolo (AQ) hits a Queen on the river for the winning pair.

"It's my biggest score," says Lightner, who recently moved back to Philadelphia to make one last run at playing professional poker. "For $100(k) Guarantee, I was expecting first (place) to be $25(k) and that's what I got," he says after earning $26,738.