$1,700 WSOP Circuit Coco Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 29: 40,000/80,000 with a 80,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 617

The blinds are up, Steven Sarmiento still leads, but no one is short stacked. This will take a while.

Seat 1: Nick Yunis – 2,850,000 (36 bb)
Seat 5: Russell Sullivan – 3,250,000 (41 bb)
Seat 7: Steven Sarmiento – 7,560,000 (95 bb)
Seat 8: Neal Corcoran – 4,850,000 (61 bb)

Remaining payouts:

1st: $188,158 + GCC Seat
2nd: $116,291
3rd: $86,060
4th: $64,423

$1,700 WSOP Circuit Coco Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 28: 30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 617

With the board reading , Steven Sarmiento bet 100,000 and Neal Corcoran called. The river was , Sarmiento checked, and Corcoran bet 450,000.

Sarmiento thought for two minutes and dropped in a check-raise to 1,500,000. Corcoran called, then mucked when Sarmiento tabled for the full house. Corcoran sent the chips to Sarmiento and we had a new leader.

Steven Sarmiento – 6,400,000 (107 bb)
Neal Corcoran – 4,505,000 (75 bb)

$1,700 WSOP Circuit Coco Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 28: 30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 617

Neal Corcoran and Russell Sullivan were heads-up to a flop. Corcoran bet 180,000 and Sullivan raised to 500,000. Corcoran announced all in and Sullivan called at risk for ~2,100,000.

Sullivan:
Corcoran:

Sullivan was ahead with his flopped top pair and finished off the double after the turn and river.

Russell Sullivan – 4,650,000 (78 bb)
Neal Corcoran – 6,300,000 (105 bb)

$1,700 WSOP Circuit Coco Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 28: 30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 617

After a whirlwind first two levels of the day, where the Main Event dropped seven players in two hours, the four remaining players took a 10-minute break.

Neal Corcoran holds a big lead over the other three but there are plenty of chips in play.

Seat 1: Nick Yunis – 2,820,000 (47 bb)
Seat 5: Russell Sullivan – 2,500,000 (42 bb)
Seat 7: Steven Sarmiento – 4,300,000 (72 bb)
Seat 8: Neal Corcoran – 8,250,000 (138 bb)

Remaining payouts:

1st: $188,158 + GCC Seat
2nd: $116,291
3rd: $86,060
4th: $64,423

$1,700 WSOP Circuit Coco Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 617

It was three-ways to a flop with Steven Sarmiento on the button, Neal Corcoran in the small blind, and Nick Yunis in the big. All three players checked, the turn was , Corcoran checked, and Yunis bet 500,000.

Sarmiento called, Corcoran folded, and the river was . Yunis put Sarmiento all in and he called for 1,425,000 after a bit of a tank. Yunis’s showed and Sarmiento pulled the big double with his .

Steven Sarmiento – 4,300,000 (86 bb)
Nick Yunis – 2,820,000 (56 bb)

$1,700 WSOP Circuit Coco Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 617

Action folded to Dominique Mosley on the button and he moved all in for 655,000. Steven Sarmiento folded his small blind and Neal Corcoran called after a quick look at his cards.

Corcoran:
Mosley:

Another big hand for chip leader Corcoran. Mosley paired his ten on the but that’s as close as he got as the turn and river completed the board. Mosley, our February 2018 WSOP Circuit High Roller champ, went out in fifth place for $48,789.

Neal Corcoran – 8,250,000 (165 bb)
Dominique Mosley – Eliminated in 5th Place ($48,789)

$1,700 WSOP Circuit Coco Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 5 of 617

Matthew Yorra was in a three-way pot with the board reading . Yorra moved all in, Dominique Mosley folded, and Steven Sarmiento called.

Sarmiento:
Yorra:

Both players had similar stacks and Yorra was in trouble with his top pair against top two. Yorra had four outs to Broadway but the river send a big double to Sarmiento. Yorra was down to only 60,000 and the popular SHR poker regular was sent out soon after in sixth place.

Steven Sarmiento – 2,150,000 (43 bb)
Matthew Yorra – Eliminated in 6th Place ($37,386)

$1,700 WSOP Circuit Coco Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 6 of 617

It folded around to Todd Mercer on the button and he moved all in for ~475,000. Nick Yunis called in the small blind and Matthew Yorra folded his big.

Yunis:
Mercer:

Mercer needed a miracle or some diamonds to double up but the dealer spread the board to miss his hand and send him out in seventh place.

Nick Yunis – 4,950,000 (99 bb)
Todd Mercer – Eliminated in 7th Place ($28,990)

$1,700 WSOP Circuit Coco Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 7 of 617

Daniel Couzens open-shoved for 435,000 from under the gun and the move made it all the way around to Neal Corcoran in the big blind. Corcoran called and Couzens was the one at risk.

Corcoran:
Couzens:

Couzens was dominated by the chip leader and the flop was no help. The turn gave Couzens a gutshot wheel draw but he blanked the river to exit in eighth place.

Neal Corcoran – 6,630,000 (133 bb)
Daniel Couzens – Eliminated in 8th Place ($22,752)

$1,700 WSOP Circuit Coco Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 617

Thomas Macey open-shoved from early position for 615,000 and it folded around to Neal Corcoran on the button. He put in a big stack of 100K chips to get folds from the blinds.

“Uh oh,” Macey laughed after the isolation move.

Corcoran:
Macey:

Macey needed his eights to hold to double but Corcoran took the lead on the flop. The board finished turn and river to send Macey out in ninth place.

Neal Corcoran – 6,300,000 (126 bb)
Thomas Macey – Eliminated in 9th Place ($18,075)