$400 Monster Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 21: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 Ante Players Remaining: 28 of 241
Michael Perrone
It took a little longer to get there than expected but Flight A of the Monster Stack stopped with 14 minutes and 30 seconds remaining in Level 21 when they reached 28 players. Those players booked their seat for Day 2 at 1pm on Thursday along with the Flight B survivors from tomorrow.
Michael Perrone moved to the top of the counts late and stayed there until the end. He put 596,000 in his bag and that will be tough to beat.
We will have full Flight A counts as soon as they are available.
Top five Flight A stacks:
Michael Perrone – 653,000 Bill Farnan – 596,000 John Gorsuch – 592,000 Paul Shafran – 459,000 Lloyd Gunther – 436,000
$400 Monster Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 19: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 Ante Players Remaining: 35 of 241
Mark Stephen Edwards
Monster Stack Flight A players returned from their last break of the night and they are only six eliminations away from ending their grind. They will stop action when 29 players remain and they will be set for Day 2 on Thursday.
Mark Stephen Edwards is back with us and trying to go back-to-back. He won the Turbo title yesterday for his second career WSOP Circuit ring and a deep run here will move him up the Casino Championship leaderboard.
$400 Monster Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 18: 2,500/5,000 with a 500 Ante Players Remaining: 54 of 241
John Gorsuch
We didn’t see the normal quick run for the door after dinner but it happened after the next-to-last break. The tournament clock shows 54 players but they are close to breaking another table to get to 45. That will leave them 16 eliminations away from ending their night and locking the Flight A field for Day 2.
SHRP regular John Gorsuch is setting himself up for another deep run and sits among the leaders with 350,000. He made the Event 5 final table last night and finished sixth before returning today to try again. Gorsuch cashed big last summer during the World Series of Poker when he booked a fourth-place final table finish in the $3,000 Six-Handed event for a six-digit payout.
$400 Monster Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 16: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 Ante Players Remaining: 72 of 241
John DePersio
We already have five tournaments in the bag for the WSOP Circuit series and we have a couple frontrunners for the Casino Championship playing near each other this evening.
John DePersio burst out of the gates and picked up his second career WSOP Circuit ring in Event 1 and followed that up with an 11th place out of 1,207 entries in Event 2. That is good enough to put him in the lead for the Casino Championship with Tom Bielecky sitting in second.
Bielcecky made the Event 1 final table along with DePersio and finished in fourth place. His follow up to that final table was a fifth place in Event 2 to put him in a dead heat with Martin Ryan, the Event 3 champion.
The Casino Champion will earn a $10,000 seat into the WSOP National Championship along with the WSOP Circuit Coco Main Event winner.
$400 Monster Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 15: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 Ante Players Remaining: 81 of 241
Ian O’Hara
The Monster Stack is taking its time playing down and there are still 81 players remaining with less than four levels to go in the evening. It looks like they will get through 21 full levels before reaching the magic number of 29.
Ian O’Hara is one of those still with us and he joined the tournament not long after a deep run in Event 5. He returned today for the final table but had to settle for a runner-up finish to William Watson for the WSOP Circuit ring. O’Hara has two handfuls of tournament victories with his biggest coming here when he took the 2016 Coco Poker Open Championship title for more than $200,000.
$400 Monster Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 13: 800/1,600 with a 200 Ante Entries: 241
Monster Stack players returned from their hour-long dinner break and registration is now closed for the first of two flights. Flight A drew 241 entries to put the tournament on an easy pace to hit the $100,000 guarantee with nearly $80,000 of it locked up with one more flight running on Wednesday.
They are scheduled to play 21 full levels this evening but they will stop if they field gets down to 12% of the starting field. In this case, that would be 29 players.
$400 NLH (Re-Entry) Level 18: 2,500/5,000 with a 500 ante | Payouts Players Remaining: 5 of 55
Greg Paryani
Event 5 drew 55 players and there were still five players around when play came to an end for Day 1. With six getting paid, they made the money in the early morning hours and SHRP regular John Gorsuch cashed out in sixth place before they bagged up their chips for a Day 2 return.
Greg Paryani leads with tough players Ian O’Hara, Zo Karim, Matt Bretzfield and William Watson trying to chase him down.
Seat 1: Matt Bretzfield – 104,000 Seat 2: Greg Paryani – 237,000 Seat 3: William Watson – 140,000 Seat 4: Zo Karim – 153,000 Seat 5: Ian O’Hara – 196,000
September WSOP Circuit Seminole Casino Coconut Creek Coconut Creek, FL Event 4 $400 Double Stack Turbo NLH $50,000 Guaranteed Entries: 153 Prize Pool: $50,490 September 17, 2018
Mark Stephen Edwards, Event 4 Champion
The first Monday of the WSOP Circuit series had a fast-paced tournament on the schedule to award a title and some nice money all in one day. Event 4 was a $400 Double Stack Turbo tournament that drew 153 entries and Mark Stephen Edwards came from behind to win his second career WSOP Circuit ring.
Those entries created a prize pool worth $50,490 and the last 18 players shared some piece of that money. There were only 27 players remaining when they went on dinner and in the money not long after.
It was a tough field and former SHRP champ Angelo Miele held the chip lead when they formed the final table. But his advantage quickly disappeared after a series of tough hands that sent him out in ninth place.
Former WSOP bracelet and WSOP Circuit ring winner Tristan Wade was the most accomplished player to make the final table but he could not run up his short stack. He laddered up as others dropped out and he finished in fifth place.
Edwards was one of the shorter stacks at the start of the final table but won a big race early to double. He rode his growing stack to a heads-up battle with Francis Margaglione, another multiple SHRP champ, and they swapped the lead several times.
In the end, Edwards outlasted Margaglione to take the title. Margalione earned $8,425 but was disappointed to not win his first WSOP Circuit ring while Edwards took home $13,632. This is his second career WSOP Circuit ring with his first coming back in 2008.
Event 4 results:
1st: Mark Stephen Edwards – $13,632 2nd: Francis Margaglione – $8,425 3rd: Stephen Diamantas – $6,064 4th: Stephen Nussrallah – $4,445 5th: Tristan Wade – $3,315 6th: Aaron Thivyanathan – $2,516 7th: Michael Rosenberg – $1,942 8th: Mark “Bud” Wiser – $1,523 9th: Angelo Miele – $1,215 10th: Russell Ramuten – $984 11th: Charles Rizzo – $984 12th: Raymond Millard – $984 13th: Harold Klein – $810 14th: Michael Perrone – $810 15th: Raveesh Asnani – $810 16th: George Duffield – $677 17th: Brett Feder – $677 18th: Andrew Levine – $677
$400 Double Stack Turbo NLH (Re-Entry) Level 14: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante | Payouts Players Remaining: 10 of 55
The $400 No Limit Hold’em event made it down to the final table after less than eight hours of play but they still have some work to do. William Watson leads the final table but only six of these ten will take home some money.
Seat 1: Matt Bretzfield – 57,000 (29 bb) Seat 2: Greg Paryani – 26,400 (13 bb) Seat 3: William Watson – 198,100 (99 bb) Seat 4: John Gorsuch – 61,200 (31 bb) Seat 5: Zo Karim – 66,500 (33 bb) Seat 6: Carlos Loving – 80,000 (40 bb) Seat 7: Ian O’Hara – 140,000 (70 bb) Seat 8: Stephen Bierman – 103,000 (52 bb) Seat 9: Nataliya Iakovleva – 45,000 (23 bb) Seat 10: Michael Laake – 53,300 (27 bb)
