Big Stax 500 (Day 2): Mermelstein Joins His Friend

Level 22 (Blinds 10,000/20,000/3,000)
Total Entries: 775
Players Remaining: 39

Aaron Mermelstein (Philadelphia, PA)

Players are about to head on a (15) minute break, before returning to Level 23 and blinds of 12,000/24,000/4,000. Aaron Mermelstein (Philadelphia, PA) was pictured earlier with Eric Rappaport, but now he gets a solo shot after grabbing the chip lead.

Mermelstein just knocked out a short stacked player as his A♣ Q♦ held against the K♥ Q♠ of his opponent.  That hand would add 260,000 to his stack, taking him over 1,700,000.  There are still a lot of notables remaining with average to below average chips, including the likes of:

Justin Liberto
DJ MacKinnon
Tyreem Williams
Frank Ferrigno
Rocco Luciano
Sardor Gaziev
Cathy Dever (last lady standing)