Hand #10: Jim Collopy Eliminated in 5th Place ($117,640)

Hand #10  –  Jim Collopy (pictured) limps from middle position for 15,000, Matthew Wantman raises from the small blind to 65,000, and Collopy limp-reraises all in for 540,000.

Wantman snap-calls with , and Collopy turns over . Collopy needs to improve to stay alive.

The board comes , and the pocket queens hold up for Wantman to win the pot and eliminate Collopy in fifth place.

Matthew Wantman  –  3,940,000  (263 bb)
Jim Collopy  –  Eliminated in 5th Place  ($117,640)

This was the last hand of Level 21, and the blinds increas to 10,000-20,000 with a 20,000 big blind ante for Level 22. Wantman counts down his stack after scoring the first two knockouts and tells the table he has 3.94 million.

Wantman then looks up at the new blinds and says, “I came into the final table with 200 big blinds, and now I have less.”

Igor Kurganov adds, “And you couldn’t have played better.”