$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)Level 26: 20,000/40,000/5,000 Ante 144y1i

Mukul Pahuja opened under the gun, the small blind moved all in with 8-8, and Pahuja called with .

The board came — the small blind flopped a set of eights to Pahuja’s gutshot straight draw, and then Pahuja caught a runner-runner heart flush instead to win the pot and bust his opponent.

That takes Pahuja up near the top of the leaderboard with 2.7 million in chips.

Mukul Pahuja  –  2,700,000  (68 bb)

There are currently 46 players remaining, with an average chip stack around 1,275,000 (32 big blinds). Action will continue tonight until 3:00 am, unless they are at the final table and all remaining players agree to keep playing (which rarely happens).