David Lopez looked down to find the , and with a preflop raising war occurring around him, as well as the impending end of the re-entry period, he decided to make his stand.

Eventually three other players made the same decision, and when the cards were tabled Lopez found himself ahead of and , but far behind the .

A flop of maintained the status quo, and the aces remained in front, but like a bolt of lightning from the sky a fell in on the turn. Suddenly Lopez needed to fade the two remaining aces to haul in a huge pot, and when a completed the board on the river, he had hit the Goliath of poker hands with a well-aimed, if not extremely fortunate, shot to the forehead.

Lopez now sits with over 170,000 and he is well out in front of the field midway through Day 1C.

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