Tournament reporting from the felt
37 reports filed on this day.
The final table chip counts by seat assignment are as follows: 1. Steven Brackesy 625,000 2. Thomas Leonard 820,000 3. Allison Schultz 1,370,000 4. Brad Harper 1,690,000 5. Khalid Riley 1,985,000 6. Kenneth…
13th - Douglas Benedict 14th - Peter Campo 15th - Norman Doucette
We are now down to the final ten and players are redrawing for seats at the final table. Play will resume at 11:30pm.
The players are currently on a 10-minute break. Tournament officials are coloring up the orange 1,000 chips. When play resumes, the blinds will be increased to 20,000-40,000 with a 5,000 ante.
16th - Mark Sykes 17th - Eric Paulding 18th - Todd Bourgault 19th - Brian Odonoghue 20th - Eugene Sumter
2010 WSOP November Nine member and current chip leader at the WSOP Main Event final table, Jonathan Duhamel, just stopped by the tournament area to check out the action. Jonathan just arrived at Foxwoods and…
The 17 remaining players are now on a 10-minute break. When they return, the blinds will be increased to 15,000-30,000 with a 4,000 ante.
With 18 players remaining, the blinds have been increased to 12,000-24,000 with a 3,000 ante.
With only 20 players remaining, we are now redrawing for seats at the final two tables.
21st - Andrew Savitz 22nd - Dimitrios Psaras 23rd - Gaetano Cannata 24th - Tanner Payne 25th - Tim Reilly 26th - Robert Koerher 27th - Richard Farina 28th - Fred Tenney 29th - Ryan Eriquezzo 30th - Michael…
The final 21 players have returned from dinner break and cards are back in the air. The blinds are still 10,000-20,000 with a 2,000 ante.
The 21 remaining players are now on a one-hour dinner break.
The blinds have been increased to 10,000-20,000 with a 2,000 ante.
31st - Andrew Martinez 32nd - Frank Cieri 33rd - Chris Garrity 34th - Mark Epstein 35th - Rochefort Milien 36th - Shane Campbell 37th - Roger Fisette 38th - Douglas Corbin 39th - Brandon Vargas 40th - Sari…
With only 30 players now remaining, players are redrawing for seats at the final three tables.
The 35 remaining players are now on a 10-minute break. When play resumes, the blinds will be increased to 8,000-16,000 with 2,000 ante.
Brad Harper started the day with only 155,000 in chips. However, he has just become the first player in the $560 Mega Stack Challenge to cross the one million chip mark. This is the first live tournament Brad…
On a board of [Td][7h][5d], Ryan Eriquezzo bet 42,000 and his opponent put him all-in. Eriquezzo made the call and they turned over: Eriquezzo [8d][7d] Opponent [Kc][Ks] The turn came the [Qd], giving…
The blinds have been increased to 6,000-12,000 with a 2,000 ante.
41st - Taemee Feuer 42nd - Richard Meli 43rd - Vincent Cuocci 44th - Steve Corrado 45th - Jason McAvoy 46th - Michael Ory 47th - Michael Correnti 48th - Dinah Jowers 49th - David Hickman 50th - Alexander…
The players in the $560 NLHE Mega Stack Challenge are now on a 10-minute break. Tournament officials are coloring up the purple 500 chips. When play resumes, the blinds will be increased to 5,000-10,000 with a…
51st - Vinny Pahuja 52nd - Demetrios Pseudoikonomou 53rd - Adam Bacarella 54th - Tony Pham 55th - Steven Abramson 56th - Larry Goldstein 57th - Joseph Falcone 58th - Matthew Sahagian 59th - Roalie Schweinfurth…
61st - Rich Lawrence 62nd - Kevin Thomas 63rd - Steven Fiorentini 64th - Joanne Monteiro 65th - Jeremy Hendricks 66th - Kevin Currey 67th - Chris Collard 68th - Darvin Moon 69th - Helene Strafford 70th -…
With 62 players remaining, the blinds have been increased to 4,000-8,000 with a 500 ante.
After being crippled just before the bubble, 2009 WSOP Main Event Runner-Up and Mega Stack Challenge Host Darvin Moon got all of his chips in with A-J against his opponent's pocket kings. He was unable to…
We just lost our 71st place player and all the remaining players are in the money and guaranteed at least $1,286. Play will continue today until we reach a winner.
2010 WSOP Main Event 24th place finisher Ronnie Bardah has been eliminated in 73rd place at the $560 NLHE Mega Stack Challenge.
The players are currently on a 15-minute break. Tournament officials are coloring up the yellow 100 chips. The are now only 73 players remaining with top 70 spots finishing in the money. The average chip stack…
Mark Sykes just got all-in preflop with pocket aces against two other opponents with pocket kings and pocket sevens. The aces held up and Sykes eliminated both players and took the chip lead with right at…
We have lost 26 players already on Day Two action and are approaching the money bubble. Ronnie Bardah started the day with only 30,000 chips but has boosted his stack to almost 150,000. 2009 WSOP Main Event…
With 86 players now remaining, the blinds have been increased to 2,500-5,000 with a 400 ante. The average chip stack is now 154,000.
Paul Darden has been eliminated early on Day Two when his pocket eights failed to improve against the pocket queens of Vinny Pahuja.
Cards are back in the air for our final 107 players. The blinds are now 2,000-4,000 with a 400 ante.
Day Two of the $560 NLHE Mega Stack Challenge event is set to start at noon today. There are 107 players remaining with top 70 spots finishing in the money. The top three chip stacks going into today are as…
Play has ended on Day One of the $560 NLHE Mega Stack Challenge. We have 107 players moving on with top 70 spots finishing in the money. Play will resume tomorrow at noon. Some notable chip counts at the end…
The blinds have been increased to 1,500-3,000 with a 300 ante. There are 130 players left and the chip average is now 102,000. This will be the final level of Day One.