Level 24 (Blinds 7,000/14,000/1,500)
Total Entries: 178
Players Remaining: 5
Chip Average: 1,068,000
They say you should wait half an hour after eating before going swimming.
Evidently, that also applies to playing big hands of poker. Aside from Tim Bishop occasionally pushing his short stack all-in and getting no callers, there weren't any big pots in the first 20 minutes after players returned from dinner.
But then Christian Harder and Brian Hastings made a bit of a splash in a hand that almost reached 1,000,000 chips.
After a flop of 8♠ 8♥ 7♦, Harder bet 90,000. Hastings flat-called.
The turn brought the A♠ and a 130,000 bet from Harder. Again, Hastings flat-called.
With the 5♥ on the river, Harder counted out 280,000 chips before pushing them into the middle. Hastings went into the tank for a minute before folding and revealing the A♥.
Harder ended up taking about 250,000 chips from Hastings' 2,000,000 stack.
