$300 Monster Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $238,500  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 25:  100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante
Players Remaining:  17 of 954

$300 Monster Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $238,500  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 25:  100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante
Players Remaining:  20 of 954

Chaos on the last hand before the dinner break, with Ken O’Donnell knocking out Jackson Smith and the big-stacked Dan Clemente. When the math and the color up was complete, O’Donnell went to dinner with 20 million of the 95 million chip in play,

Table 11
Seat 1: Ananth Ganesan – 1,325,000 (7 bb)
Seat 2: Grant Missonis – 7,150,000 (36 bb)
Seat 3: — Empty —
Seat 4: Eric Klatt – 7,775,000 (39 bb)
Seat 5: James Browning – 2,175,000 (11 bb)
Seat 6: Mohamed Essa – 2,750,000 (14 bb)
Seat 7: Matthew Leecy – 1,525,000 (8 bb)
Seat 8: Chris Morgan – 5,050,000 (25 bb)

Table 21
Seat 1: Tam Nguyen – 1,625,000 (8 bb)
Seat 2: John Wolfe – 2,475,000 (12 bb)
Seat 3: Luis Torres – 3,550,000 (18 bb)
Seat 4: Sandro Vianna – 1,250,000 (6 bb)
Seat 5: Todd Doane – 5,450,000 (27 bb)
Seat 6: — Empty —
Seat 7: — Empty —
Seat 8: Ken O’Donnell – 20,350,000 (102 bb)

Table 22
Seat 1: Tony Alicea – 5,650,000 (28 bb)
Seat 2: Karl Manouchakian – 2,925,000 (15 bb)
Seat 3: Patrick Ibrahim – 1,075,000 (5 bb)
Seat 4: Chris Kuzmicki – 3,125,000 (16 bb)
Seat 5: William Clay – 10,200,000 (51 bb)
Seat 6: Maribeth Hilliard – 5,350,000 (27 bb)
Seat 7: — Empty —
Seat 8: Mark Wiser – 3,125,000 (16 bb)

21st: Dan Clemente – $1,460
22nd: Jackson Smith – $1,460
23rd: Hugh Mayes – $1,460
24th: Walter Thornton – $1,460

1st: $40,070 + PPO Trophy
2nd: $26,820
3rd: $19,790
4th: $14,770
5th: $11,130
6th: $8,490
7th: $6,550
8th: $5,100
9th-10th: $4,020
11th-12th: $3,210
13th-14th: $2,590
15th-16th: $2,120
17th-20th: $1,750

$300 Monster Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $238,500  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 23:  60,000/120,000 with a 120,000 ante
Players Remaining:  24 of 954

And just like that, the field quickly dropped another eight players, and tournament staff paused the clock. With 24 players remaining, they are redrawing seats at the last three tables.

25th: Joseph Ramos – $1,240
26th: Dalton Dowdy – $1,240
27th: Blake Robinson – $1,240
28th: Adam Yellin – $1,240
29th: Kevin Malick – $1,240
30th: Eli Kiwan – $1,240
31st: Adam Weingard – $1,240
32nd: Oleksii Liakh – $1,240

Remaining payouts:

1st: $40,070 + PPO Trophy
2nd: $26,820
3rd: $19,790
4th: $14,770
5th: $11,130
6th: $8,490
7th: $6,550
8th: $5,100
9th-10th: $4,020
11th-12th: $3,210
13th-14th: $2,590
15th-16th: $2,120
17th-20th: $1,750
21st-24th: $1,460

$300 Monster Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $238,500  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 23:  60,000/120,000 with a 120,000 ante
Players Remaining:  32 of 954

The PPO Monster Stack is down to its last four tables with 32 players remaining. They will take their 30-minute dinner break around 4:40 pm and return to 40-minute levels.

33rd: Robert Fiore – $1,060
34th: Erik Hart – $1,060
35th: Jerome Leonardo – $1,060
36th: Michael Zezula – $1,060
37th: Matthew Ball – $1,060
38th: David Roemer – $1,060
39th: Keith Schiller – $1,060
40th: Noelle Simms – $1,060

$300 Monster Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $238,500  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 21:  40,000/80,000 with a 80,000 ante
Players Remaining:  40 of 954

41st: Paul Bright – $920
42nd: Sam Ronalds – $920
43rd: Nicole Jammal – $920
44th: Paul Edwards – $920
45th: Fabio Lozano – $920
46th: Thomas Robertson – $920
47th: Richard Serafin – $920
48th: Juan Rodriguez – $920

49th: James Crook – $810
50th: Juan Rodriguez – $810
51st: Cornelius Walker – $810
52nd: Anthony Quattrocchi – $810
53rd: Duane Shepherd – $810
54th: Roberto Melo – $810
55th: Michael Gallo – $810
56th: Nick Scholz – $810

$300 Monster Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $238,500  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 21:  40,000/80,000 with a 80,000 ante
Players Remaining:  48 of 954

Monster Stack players were sent on their second break and returned with a new leader. Just before the break, Dan Clemente was dragging a huge pot and led the field with nearly seven million in his stack. Eric Klatt and Blake Robinson are each over 5,000,000 and Grant Missonis is only one 100K chip off that mark.

They are schedule to play four more 30-minute levels, take a 30-minute dinner break, and return to levels last 40 minutes.

Dan Clemente – 6,745,000 (84 bb)
Eric Klatt – 5,525,000 (69 bb)
Blake Robinson – 5,040,000 (63 bb)
Grant Missonis – 4,900,000 (61 bb)

$300 Monster Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $238,500  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 20:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  56 of 954

57th: Shane Melert – $720
58th: Michael Fine – $720
59th: Trevor Phelps – $720
60th: Christopher Gaskin – $720
61st: Matthew Duffy – $720
62nd: Jorge Nounon – $720
63rd: Bennett French – $720
64th: Jake Ferro – $720

65th: Gerard Day – $650
66th: Matthew White – $650
67th: Mark Pellegrino – $650
68th: Stephen Dees – $650
69th: Sonny Mineo – $650
70th: Gregory Lewit – $650
71st: Edward Compton – $650
72nd: Brandon Schultz – $650

$300 Monster Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $238,500  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 20:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  64 of 954

The PPO Monster Stack is down to its last eight tables with 64 players remaining. Some big stacks are starting to emerge with several in the four-million range but Grant Missonis leads them all with 5,100,000.

Still a long way to go but he’s in great shape for a deep run.

$300 Monster Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $238,500  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 18:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  72 of 954

Hongxing Li opened to 160,000 from middle position, leaving a single 5K chip behind, and Stephen Dees moved all in for 375,000 from the cutoff. It folded back around, Li teased about a possible fold, but called at risk.

Li:
Dees:

Li needed to catch an ace or a miracle run out to double but blanked the board to go out in 75th place.

Other results:

73rd: Alfredo Leiva Basu – $590
74th: Irme Papp – $590
75th: Hongxing Li – $590
76th: Adam Hoffman – $590
77th: Robert Cornette – $590
78th: Bobby Amin – $590
79th: Dimas Martinez – $590
80th: John Two-Bears – $590

81st: Jeevan Nomula – $550
82nd: Daniel Cuesta – $550
83rd: Darin Thompson – $550
84th: James Morrissey – $550
85th: Harley Gollert – $550
86th: April Griffey – $550
87th: Marco Capaccioli – $550
88th: Alain Medesan – $550

$300 Monster Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $238,500  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 17:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  88 of 954

89th: Michael Rossi – $510
90th: Jeffrey Arsenault – $510
91st: Brian Ray – $510
92nd: Yuriy Kim – $510
93rd: Sreenivasa Katta – $510
94th: John Alegria – $510
95th: Joseph Parrish – $510
96th: Lance Vernon – $510
97th: David Mauradian – $510
98th: Chad Kitchen – $510
99th: Charles Sauter – $510
100th: Stuart Phillips – $510
101st: David Lucenti – $510
102nd: Jorge Campuzano Montoya – $510
103rd: Michael Traficante – $510
104th: Chris Perry – $510