Alavez Doubles and Leaves Kapnopoulos on Fumes
Level 28
: Blinds 50,000/100,000, 100,000 ante
Briant Alavez opened to 200,000 from under the gun. Ioannis Kapnopoulos on the button three-bet to 2,000,000, then Alavez moved all in for 2,405,000. Kapnopoulos snap-called.
Briant Alavez: K♠K♣
Ioannis Kapnopoulos: A♣10♣
Alavez's kings held on J♥7♣5♥J♦4♠, and he doubled up. Kapnopoulos thought he had been eliminated and left the table, but after both stacks were counted, he still had 55,000 chips, less than one big blind, behind. He was then called back to his seat.