Event 5: We have a deal!

Escalator VII Series Event 5
$1,700 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | payouts
Level 33: 125,000/250,000 with a bet of 250,000
Remaining players: 2 of 559

After a 15-minute break after the end of level 32, players returned and quickly agreed on a deal.

Here were the chip counts back then:

Aaron Stefansky – 11,475,000 (46bb)
Dmitri Savelyev – 10,875,000 (44bb)

Here were the resulting payouts:

Aaron Stefansky – $135,733
Dmitri Savelyev – $134,347

As the chip leader, Aaron Stefansky was the official Event 5 Champion of the Escalator VII Series.

A tournament summary will be released throughout the day.