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Level 24: 12,000/24,000 with a 4,000 Ante
Players remaining: 18 of 735

Players are dropping quickly in the Main Event and a lot of that has to do with the massive stack of Dmitrii Perfilev. He has so many chips (3,400,000 and nearly double the double closest stacks) that it is skewing the average stacks to make the rest of the field play with shallower stacks.

We have two tables remaining with nearly 90 minutes left in their day.  They redrew seats and got back underway.

Table 1
Seat 1: Jason Wandling – 575,000
Seat 2: Corey Bierria – 1,050,000
Seat 3: Jose Reyes – 650,000
Seat 4: Jordan Schneider – 1,130,000
Seat 5: Justin Donato – 975,000
Seat 6: Stu Patterson – 500,000
Seat 7: Jose Delcid – 975,000
Seat 8: Ken Bruno – 1,170,000
Seat 9: Harry O’Brien – 2,200,000

Table 2
Seat 1: Josh Abady – 1,180,000
Seat 2: Dmitrii Perfilev – 3,400,000
Seat 3: Cesar Solares – 1,080,000
Seat 4: Lloyd Gunther – 1,700,000
Seat 5: Luciano Nardi – 1,500,000
Seat 6: Dustin Murphy – 550,000
Seat 7: Michael Amato – 830,000
Seat 8: Josias Santos – 775,000
Seat 9: Sheddy Siddiqui – 1,700,000

Remaining payouts:

1st: $222,691 + WSOP Circuit ring
2nd: $137,298
3rd: $101,219
4th: $75,441
5th: $56,979
6th: $43,595
7th: $33,773
8th: $26,491
9th: $21,034
10th-12th: $16,903
13th-15th: $13,752
16th-18th: $11,325

Main Event results 19th through 27th:

19th: Grant Simmons – $9,432
20th: Evan Dollinger – $9,432
21st: Noel Atherley – $9,432
22nd: Gautam Lillaney – $7,951
23rd: Mitchell Lekarczyk – $7,951
24th: Ray Millard – $7,951
25th: Andrew Sutton – $6,781
26th: Andrey Kotelnikov – $6,781
27th: Nathan Woodside Jr – $6,781

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Level 24: 12,000/24,000 with a 4,000 Ante
Players remaining: 22 of 735

“I thought my seven or six would be live,” Monster Stack champ Mitchell Lekarczyk said when Josh Abady called his all-in.

They were live.

Lekarczyk was at risk with on the flop and Abadi was ahead with . He needed to catch his open-ended straight draw but blanked the turn and river to exit in 24th place.

Lekarczyk went out on the heels of Ray Millard, who finished third in the Monster Stack event that Lekarczyk won.

Josh Abady – 1,170,000 (48 bb)
Mitchell Lekarczyk – Eliminated in 24th place ($7,951)

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Level 23: 10,000/20,000 with a 3,000 Ante
Players remaining: 27 of 735

The action continued to steam along despite the deep stacks and hour-long levels and the Main Event is down to the last three tables after SHRP regular Nashaat Antonious was eliminated in 28th place.

Tournament staff paused the clock and they are redrawing seats. Dmitrii Perfilev was the huge chip leader with a logjam for second place.

Table 1
Seat 1: Andrew Sutton – 400,000
Seat 2: Evan Dollinger – 615,000
Seat 3: Sheddy Siddiqui – 1,100,000
Seat 4: Josias Santos – 1,050,000
Seat 5: Ken Bruno – 415,000
Seat 6: Corey Bierria – 960,000
Seat 7: Jose Reyes – 600,000
Seat 8: Jose Delcid – 1,080,000
Seat 9: Andrey Kotelnikov – 197,000

Table 2
Seat 1: Noel Atherley – 440,000
Seat 2: Jason Wandling – 370,000
Seat 3: Grant Simmons – 800,000
Seat 4: Gautam Lillaney – 520,000
Seat 5: Cesar Solares – 410,000
Seat 6: Dustin Murphy – 810,000
Seat 7: Harry O’Brien – 980,000
Seat 8: Michael Amato – 1,400,000
Seat 9: Lucciano Nardi – 430,000

Table 3
Seat 1: Nathan Woodside – 101,000
Seat 2: Lloyd Gunther – 1,400,000
Seat 3: Justin Donato – 1,200,000
Seat 4: Dmitrii Perfilev – 3,100,000
Seat 5: Ray Millard – 600,000
Seat 6: Jordan Schneider – 900,000
Seat 7: Mitchell Lekarczyk – 800,000
Seat 8: Stuart Paterson – 500,000
Seat 9: Joshua Abady – 550,000

Remaining payouts:

1st: $222,691 + WSOP Circuit ring
2nd: $137,298
3rd: $101,219
4th: $75,441
5th: $56,979
6th: $43,595
7th: $33,773
8th: $26,491
9th: $21,034
10th-12th: $16,903
13th-15th: $13,752
16th-18th: $11,325
19th-21st: $9,432
22nd-24th: $7,951
25th-27th: $6,781

28th: Nashaat Antonious – $5,846
29th: Joseph Brum Pacheco – $5,846
30th: Michael Perrone – $5,846
31st: John Bamman – $5,100
32nd: Mirco Scharen – $5,100
33rd: Miguel Russo – $5,100
34th: Robert Hodson – $4,499

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Level 22: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 Ante
Players remaining: 31 of 735

Dmitrii Perfilev opened the action from under the gun and Mirco Scharen three-bet to 75,000 from the button. The blinds released and Perfilev thought for a few minutes before calling.

The flop came , both players checked, and Perfilev checked the turn as well. Scharen bet 78,000 with 183,000 behind and Perfilev called after several minutes. One last check from Perfilev after the river and Scharen moved all in.

It was another long tank as Perfilev checked his cards several times, gave the stare down to Scharen, and eventually called with his big stack. He turned over and it was good against Scharen’s ace-high to take another big pot. This was the second career cash WSOP cash for Scharen after he final tabled Event 2 earlier in the series.

Dmitrii Perfilev – 2,700,000 (169 bb)
Mirco Scharen – Eliminated in 32nd place ($5,100)

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Level 22: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 Ante
Players remaining: 34 of 735

The dinner break is complete and the 34 remaining players back in action. They will play out four more levels, with a break in the middle, before the survivors bag up for the last day of the series tomorrow.

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Level 21: 6,000/12,000 with a 2,000 Ante
Players remaining: 34 of 735

There was a quick run to the payout desk over the last break and the field dropped from 49 players to 34 on the dinner break. They will break another table when they return to get them one step closer to the final table.

The two biggest stacks remaining belong to Michael Amato and Dmitrii Perfilev, both with over 1,000,000 heading into the late stages of the Main Event.

Below are the recent players to cash out:

35th: Bradley Coultas – $4,499
36th: Bernard Lubitz – $4,499
37th: Robert Jonsson – $4,009
38th: Brian Hastings – $4,009
39th: Charles Johnson Jr – $4,009
40th: Russ Head – $4,009
41st: Amin Hosein – $4,009
42nd: Shea Smith – $4,009
43rd: Stephen Bierman – $4,009
44th: Dennis Rodriguez – $4,009
45th: Filipp Khavin – $4,009
46th: Chris Carey – $3,608
47th: Hamid Izadi – $3,608
48th: Joel Brink – $3,608
49th: Joshua Hood – $3,608

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Level 21: 6,000/12,000 with a 2,000 Ante
Players remaining: 49 of 735

50th: Jose Parra – $3,608
51st: Brandon Caputo – $3,608
52nd: Spencer Champlin – $3,608
53rd: Carey Pickus – $3,608
54th: Michael Newman – $3,608
55th: Gil Morgenstern – $3,285
56th: Deric Williams – $3,285
57th: Jose Delacruz – $3,285
58th: Harvey Glassman – $3,285
59th: Nagui Yassa – $3,285
60th: Timothy Myers – $3,285
61st: Lawrence Klur – $3,285
62nd: Thomas Gity – $3,285
63rd: Nancy Birnbaum – $3,285
64th: David Brainard – $3,018
65th: Nataliya Iakovleva – $3,018
66th: Howard Mash – $3,018
67th: Matthew Lambrecht – $3,018
68th: Wilmer Chavira – $3,018

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Level 20: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 Ante
Players remaining: 59 of 735

There was three-way action with Nagui Yassa all-in. Gautam Lillany claimed while Yassa had and the third player in the hand had . The board was complete and laid . Lillany’s top pair was best and he eliminated Yassa while scooping the pot from the third player in the hand.

It was a small win, but helped trim the field and grew Lillany’s stack to 1,200,000. With that, Lillany is the Main Event chip leader.

Gautam Lillany – 1,200,000 (120 bb)

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Level 19: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 Ante
Players remaining: 68 of 735

69th: Wally Maddah – $3,018
70th: Dominic Pacelli – $3,018
71st: Jerry Wong – $3,018
72nd: Herbert Woodbery – $3,018
73rd: Mitchell Shuman – $2,773
74th: Aaron Lasater – $2,773
75th: Jonathan Hilton – $2,773
76th: Sergei Nikiforov – $2,773
77th: Glenn Cruze – $2,773
78th: Jorge Aristizabal – $2,773
79th: Erik Christensen – $2,773
80th: Scott Johnston – $2,773
81st: Joshua Hillock – $2,773

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Level 19: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 Ante
Players remaining: 81 of 735

On the eighth hand of hand-for-hand (including four double-ups), Corey Bierria did the deed eliminating an unknown player on the bubble.

On the fateful showdown, Bierra was in the cutoff while the unknown player was on the button. The flop laid and the all-in player had 120,000 in the middle. Bierra had the best of it with versus and the turn and river didn’t change a thing.

Bierria’s full house was best and he burst the bubble sending the final 81 players into the money.

Corey Bierria – 705,000 (88 bb)