Survival Mode
Rick Austin had just lost most of his stack to Sefula Seji in a preflop all-in confrontation in which Seji's 
stood up against Austin's 
. Seji ended with about 90,000 on that one, while Austin fell to 39,000.
Austin was all in from early position before the flop on the next hand, and it folded around to Jeffrey Vanchiro in the small blind who announced he was reraising all in. Leo Whitt, also short-stacked, called from the big blind.
Vanchiro 
Whitt 
Austin 
"Let's see if I can dodge four overs," quipped Whitt. The flop then came 
, pairing Austin's queen. "Of course not," he said with a grim smile. But it could be worse -- the 
turn and 
river meant he'd survived the hand, in fact winning a not-so-small side pot in the process.
Austin survives, too, with 125,000. Whitt bounces to 180,000. And Vanchiro is still in decent shape with 225,000, although all three are below the average stack of approximately a quarter million at the moment.