- Big Stax XXI 500 10:45 PM
- Level 24 (15000/30000/5000)
- Total Entries: 967
- Players Left: 31
- Average Stack: 1,347,000

Kevin Grabel took a huge hit early in the day leaving himself ~100k, a crippled stack. He put his aggressive style on the back burner at that point and hit the short-stack grind working it up to 635k heading into Level 24. He was rewarded for his patience when he got it in with A♦A♠ against Xingang Wang’s J♥J♦. The board ran out Q♥K♠6♦3♣K♣ and Grabel holds moving back up over 1M for the first time since very early in Day 2 play.