David Lopez looked down to find the , and with a preflop raising war occurring around him, as well as the impending end of the re-entry period, he decided to make his stand.

Eventually three other players made the same decision, and when the cards were tabled Lopez found himself ahead of and , but far behind the .

A flop of maintained the status quo, and the aces remained in front, but like a bolt of lightning from the sky a fell in on the turn. Suddenly Lopez needed to fade the two remaining aces to haul in a huge pot, and when a completed the board on the river, he had hit the Goliath of poker hands with a well-aimed, if not extremely fortunate, shot to the forehead.

Lopez now sits with over 170,000 and he is well out in front of the field midway through Day 1C.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Lopez	172,000 172,000	172,000

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