Beaver Performs Double Elimination to Top 600,000
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
A giant cooler saw three players commit their stacks to the pot preflop, with the winner Gary Beaver taking down 630,000, instantly propelled into the top ten in chips. The hands: ![]()
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. Beaver with the aces was "caught" in the middle of a raising war between a player with around 70,000 and another with over 100,000; when the board was dealt it contained no upsets to the natural order of high pairs.