Big Stax 500 (Day 2): Elsby Wins 800,000 Pot Pre-Flop

Level 21 (Blinds 8,000/16,000/2,000)
Total Entries: 775
Players Remaining: 52

Verifying The Counts

It's not often that you can title a post that way, but Matt Elsby (Chandler, AZ) just took down a pot worth 825,000 without the hand going to the flop.  The hand would be approached just as Elsby five-bet shipped, with his opponent left to call another 262,000.

Elsby sat still as could be as his opponent got up from his seat, cut out the chips for a call, and deliberated for minutes.  Eventually the cards would be pushed across the line and into the muck.  The identity of his opponent has yet to have been verified, but he's left with over 350,000.

Elsby is over 1,000,000 for the first time today, and has one of the top ten stacks.

Level 22 has just started, with blinds going up to 10,000/20,000/3,000 (620,000 chip average).