$400 Monster Stack
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 30: 40,000/80,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 7 of 547

It folded around to Voitto Rintala in the cutoff and he open-shipped for ~1,900,000. Cesar Fuentes folded his button, Martin Borras folded his small blind, and Brandon Miller peeked at his cards.

Then Miller quickly called to get a fine round of expletives from our Day 2 starting chip leader.

Miller:
Rintala:

Rintala got his hands caught in the cookie jar and Miller never had a sweat as it ran out .

Brandon Miller – 3,200,000 (40 bb)
Voitto Rintala – Eliminated in 8th Place ($4,426)

$400 Monster Stack
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 30: 40,000/80,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 547

Action folded to Justin Harvell on the button and he moved all in with two shorter stacks in the blinds. Ben Sriqui folded his small but Alan Wentz called for 1,610,000.

Wentz:
Harvell:

Wentz was racing to stay in the game but missed the . The turn put him in the lead and the river locked up another double. Wentz is on quite a comeback after being down to less than one small blind after dinner.

Alan Wentz – 3,340,000 (42 bb)
Justin Harvell – 6,300,000 (79 bb)

$400 Monster Stack
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 30: 40,000/80,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 547

Craig Witz open-shoved from early position for ~1,600,000 and it folded to Justin Harvell in the hijack. He moved all in with his chip leading stack to get folds from the rest.

Harvell:
Witz:

Witz walked into a monster and couldn’t improve enough as the board ran out to sent him out in ninth place.

Justin Harvell – 6,600,000 (83 bb)
Craig Witz – Eliminated in 9th Place ($3,516)

$400 Monster Stack
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Level 29: 30,000/60,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 547

Scott Jordan opened to 160,000 from the cutoff and Tim Kotocavage three-bet shoved for 620,000 from the button. The blinds released, Jordan asked for a count, and then called with the bigger stack.

Jordan:
Kotocavage:

Jordan was way ahead and had no problem with the flop. The turn prompted to asked the dealer “don’t do it too me”. The river was safe for Jordan and Kotocavage was out in tenth place.

Scott Jordan – 2,100,000 (35 bb)
Tim Kotocavage – Eliminated in 10th Place ($2,830)

$400 Monster Stack
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 29: 30,000/60,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 547

In a quick spurt of activity after Tim Kotocavage’s double, the Monster Stack lost four players in a hurry to form the final table. Justin Harvell had the chip lead at the start of the level and it only grew before the final table.

Seat 1: Brandon Miller – 1,840,000 (31 bb)
Seat 2: Justin Harvell – 5,740,000 (96 bb)
Seat 3: Ben Sriqui – 1,840,000 (31 bb)
Seat 4: Alan Wentz – 300,000 (5 bb)
Seat 5: Scott Jordan – 2,100,000 (35 bb)
Seat 6: Tim Kotocavage – 760,000 (13 bb)
Seat 7: Voitto Rintala – 1,550,000 (26 bb)
Seat 8: Cesar Fuentes – 520,000 (9 bb)
Seat 9: Craig Witz – 2,100,000 (35 bb)
Seat 10: Martin Borras – 850,000 (14 bb)

Remaining payouts:

1st: $37,914 + WSOP Circuit Ring
2nd: $23,446
3rd: $17,145
4th: $12,722
5th: $9,572
6th: $7,302
7th: $5,646
8th: $4,426
9th: $3,516
10th: $2,830

11th: Eliezer Gonzalez – $2,830
12th: Michael price – $2,830
13th: Bryce McVay – $2,307
14th: Michael Foley – $2,307

$400 Monster Stack
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 29: 30,000/60,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 14 of 547

On the first hand back from dinner, Alan Wentz had his chips in the middle but chopped a pot with Michael Foley when they both had ace-queen.

A few hands later, Tim Kotocavage open-shoved for 860,000 from under the gun and it folded to Wentz in the big blind. He called with a similar stack, against with ace-queen.

Wentz:
Kotocavage:

Wentz was in better shape this time, faded the flop, the turn was safe, but Kotocavage took the pot after the river. They counted down the stacks and Kotocavage was at risk and Wentz was left with only a single 25K chip.

Tim Kotocavage – 1,790,000 (30 bb)
Alan Wentz – 25,000 (-1 bb)

Wentz was left with less than one small blind but ran that up with two big doubles to have a workable stack.

$400 Monster Stack
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 29: 30,000/60,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 14 of 547

Table 3
Seat 1: Bryce McVay – 765,000 (13 bb)
Seat 2: — Empty —
Seat 3: Cesar Fuentes – 905,000 (15 bb)
Seat 4: Brandon Miller – 1,225,000 (20 bb)
Seat 5: Craig Witz – 1,775,000 (30 bb)
Seat 6: Voitto Rintala – 1,200,000 (20 bb)
Seat 7: Martin Borras – 595,000 (10 bb)
Seat 8: — Empty —
Seat 9: Ben Sirqui – 1,465,000 (24 bb)

Tablel 4 – ( bb)
Seat 1: Tim Kotocavage – 880,000 (15 bb)
Seat 2: — Empty —
Seat 3: — Empty —
Seat 4: Michael Foley – 1,085,000 (18 bb)
Seat 5: Justin Harvell – 2,340,000 (39 bb)
Seat 6: Scott Jordan – 2,055,000 (34 bb)
Seat 7: Michael Price – 916,000 (15 bb)
Seat 8: Eliezer Gonzalez – 440,000 (7 bb)
Seat 9: Alan Wentz – 825,000 (14 bb)

Remaining payouts:

1st: $37,914 + WSOP Circuit Ring
2nd: $23,446
3rd: $17,145
4th: $12,722
5th: $9,572
6th: $7,302
7th: $5,646
8th: $4,426
9th: $3,516
10th-12th: $2,830
13th-14th: $2,307

$400 Monster Stack
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Level 28: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 14 of 547

The 14 remaining Monster Stack players are taking a 40-minute dinner break at the end of the level and they will return to play it out.

Evan Teitelbaum (pictured), Robert Flacco, Zachary Hammons, and John Van Arnam made the last two tables but dropped out short of the ring.

We will take this opportunity to run a full set of chip counts as they get ready to play for a ring.

15th: Evan Teitelbaum – $2,307
16th: Robert Flacco – $1,904
17th: Zachary Hammons – $1,904
18th: John Van Arnam – $1,904

$400 Monster Stack
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Level 27: 20,000/40,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 18 of 547

The red 100,000 chips are in play with only 18 left in the action. The Day 2 play has been at a breakneck pace as it took barely one hour to narrow from 27 to these final 18.

19th: Joseph Duchman – $1,592
20th: George Beck – $1,592
21st: Nicholas Visconti – $1,592
22nd: Dimitry Agrachov – $1,348
23rd: David Berman – $1,348
24th: Anthony Ruberto, Jr. – $1,348
25th: Scott Idsinga – $1,155
26th: David DiBernardi – $1,155
27th: Maurice Lightner – $1,155

Additional results are available in the posts below.

$400 Monster Stack
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Level 25: 12,000/24,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 27 of 547

The Monster Stack played to the final three tables and tournament supervisor Ben Beighle redrew to the field. After being down to his last roughly 125,000 early, Tampa’s Bryce McVay has rebounded and sits toward the top of the counts with about 1,250,000. That’s not the biggest in the room, but it’s solid and a great trend upward late in the event.

28th: Ory Hen – $1,002
29th: Perry Shiao – $1,002
30th: Zach Milchman – $1,002
31st: Gerald LeBlanc – $881
32nd: Russell Sullivan – $881
33rd: William Kennedy – $881
34th: Simon Philip – $783
35th: Casey Kaplan – $783
36th: Joseph Biegler – $783
37th: Matthew Lambrecht – $704
38th: Jeff Trudeau, Jr. – $704
39th: Jonathan Huckaby – $704
40th: Engelberth Varela Moreno – $704
41st: Javier Zarco – $704

Additional results are available in the posts below.