Event 6C: Fireworks Before Break

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

Level 12: Blinds 1k/2k/300 ante

 Friedman Points to the Side Pot, as Chan (light blue)

Waits for His Triple-up.  Zhou (partially blocked) can Barely Watch

The last two hands before break are brutal for Wu Zhou (State College, PA) who has KK and AA cracked on back-to-back hands.  "Most people would be out," says an impressed Nate Meschberg (Brooklyn, NY), "to still be in is amazing."

Meschberg hands Zhou the first bad beat with AK against Zhou's KK for a 38k hit. Zhou is then in a three-way all in with Kirron Chan (Yonkers, NY) and Daniel Friedman (Smithtown, NY).

Zhou (84k): A♦ A♠
Chan (72k): A♣ K♠
Friedman (100k): J♠ J♥

Flop: Q♣ 6♣ 3♣ (Chan, nut flush draw)

Turn: 9♣ (Chan flush)

River: 8♦

Chan's winning flush puts him near the top of the chip counts with 220k, while Zhou and Friedman are both on life support.

"I want to give a shout out to my wife who's home with our new baby," says Chan, as he beams about Jennifer and son Dylan,"

Chan is now even with Joe Liberta (Berlin, NJ) who's been over 200k for the last few levels.

This is the last break of the night as play continues for four more levels before the field bags and tags at ~ 2 am.