Big Stax 500 (Day 2): Team Kitten Purrs No More

Level 22 (Blinds 10,000/20,000/3,000)
Total Entries: 925
Players Remaining: 39

Chris Rich (North Masappequa, NY)

Kevin Grabel (Southampton, PA) of Team Kitten poker made a crucial mistake about (20) minutes ago, misreading his hand in a pot with Mike Petrowci.  It would cost Grabel over 70% of his stack at the time, and he just wasn't able to recover afterwards.

Grabel just open shoved his remaining 270,000, and was called by Christopher Rich on the button:

Grabel: K♦ 7♠
Rich: A♠ J♣

Runout: 5♥ 9♠ 2♦ 6♠ 3♥

This is the first we've heard form Rich since her bagged the chip lead on Day 1A, but with that pot he eclipses the chip average and sits with 1,100,000.  Grabel finishes in 42nd place and earns himself $2,154.