Big Stax 1000 (Day 3): 15th Place - Santana ($5,879)

Level 24 - Blinds 20,000/40,000/5,000 (Players Remaining: 14)

Aristides Santana (Yonkers, NY)
15th Place - $5,879

Aristides spent much of this tournament in the top ten of the field, and today was no different.  As the day progressed though, Santana would find himself as one of the shorter stacks in the field.  He shoved his remaining 500,000 pre and was called by Shankar Pillai.  It was a race between Santana's A 10 and Pillai's 7 7, and Aristides quickly stole the lead with an ace on the flop.  The runout would be pure for Pillai though as he would river a seven, knock out Aristides, and pad his chip lead (close to 5,000,000).