2009 World Series of Poker

Event 2 - $40,000 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 4
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Event Info

2009 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a♠a♥
Prize
$1,891,012
Event Info
Buy-in
$40,000
Entries
201
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000

Building an Oak Tree from an Acorn

Shamus
Shamus
The size of the big blind -- 120,000 chips -- is exactly the number of chips with which each of these four players started the tournament. After having collected the other 197 entrants' chips, the average stack among these four is now just over 6 million.

That's about 50 big blinds. Stern, the current short stack with 3.335 million, has almost 28 big blinds with which to work.