On table 24 Franco A. just doubled up at the expense of one of the larger chip stacks in the room, Mark Sloane. Franco was in the big blind, and took quite some time to consider his all in preflop shove. But once he did he was insta-called by Mark.

Mark flipped over his suited AQ, but it wasn’t enough to best Franco’s pocket aces. When the board came down Mark relunctantly paid out 57,900, and Franco breathed a sigh of relief. Now sitting above 100,000 chips, his push to the end of level 14 will be a little easier.