Event #41: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em MONSTER STACK

Andrew Moreno

Play has concluded for Day 2 of Event #41, the $1,500 Monster Stack No Limit Hold'em, and, although 2,001 players took their seats for the restart, about 800 eliminations took place within the first three hours of Day 2 and only around 277 are advancing to Day 3. Leading the pack is Nabil Mohamed, who took only 11,000 out of the bag this morning, but ends tonight with 1,928,000, and close behind are Donghai Wu (1,334,000) and Andrew Moreno (1,316,000). Other well-known players who will return tomorrow include David Pham, (843,000), Matt Stout (726,000), TJ Cloutier (538,000), Tuan Le (525,000), Barny Boatman (450,000), Jake Schindler (386,000), Josh Arieh (338,000), Andy Bloch (311,000), Chino Rheem (285,000), Leif Force (278,000), Cate Hall (198,800), and Hall of Fame members Billy Baxter (275,000) and Erik Seidel (29,000).

Many of the biggest stacks and biggest names who were still in contention at the beginning of the day fell along the way after the bubble broke, such as Michael Mizrachi (1002nd), Ylon Schwartz (976th), Cory Waaland (883rd), reigning Main Event Champion Joe McKeehen (847th), Jim McManus (811th), Dennis Phillips (771st), Dan Kelly (714th), Brian Hastings (673rd), Jeff Madsen (635th), Gaelle Baumann (496th), Eric Baldwin (472nd), Ari Engel (469th), Humberto Brenes (464th), Max Silver (445th), current Player of the Year race leader Jason Mercier (398th), Dutch Boyd (376th), and Mohsin Charania (333rd).

Cards will be in the air at 11:00 local time tomorrow morning, and the remaining field will play ten additional levels. Hopefully when all is said and done at the end of Day 3, a final table will have been reached, and a winner will be determined Tuesday on Day 4. Be sure to check back here for continuing coverage of Event #41 at the 2016 WSOP, the Monster Stack. A full list of chip counts and seat assignments will be available under the Reports tab.

Chino Rheem

Chino Rheem moves all in for 71,000 from middle position as the decision folds to the player in the big blind. He calls. 

"I haven't looked," says Rheem, before flipping over    and finding himself at risk against his opponents   .

The board runs out       and Rheem spikes a king on the river to double up and survive. 

Chino Rheem - 156,000

Andrew Moreno

The player in middle position moves all in for 9,000 before Chino Rheem raises to 25,000 from late position. Andrew Moreno calls from the big blind.

The flop comes     and Moreno checks. Rheem bets out 30,000. Moreno calls. 

The turn brings the   and Moreno checks once more. Rheem tosses out 65,000. Moreno calls. 

The   completes the board and Moreno checks for the third time. Rheem moves all in for 614,000 which has Moreno covered. 

Moreno thinks about his decision for a minute, cuts out his stack, then calls. 

"I have an eight," says Rheem, before Moreno tables    for top pair. Rheem mucks and Moreno scoops in the side pot.

The all-in player shows    and takes down the main pot with the nut flush.

Andrew Moreno - 1,316,000
Chino Rheem - 72,000

 
Chad Holloway

Chad Holloway raises to 23,000 from under the gun and is called by a player in late position. The player in the small blind then moves all in for 180,000 and is called by Holloway after the big blind folds. The cutoff thinks for a minute before folding. 

Holloway:   
OpponentL   

The board runs out       to see Holloway improve to a set of jacks on the flop before ultimately taking the pot. 

Following the hand, Holloway said that he had busted another opponent in the previous hand with the same pocket jacks, which held against his opponents pocket nines. 

Chad Holloway - 915,000

Another player has fallen to David Pham. According to Pham, he raised from late position, the small blind shoved for about 70,000, then Pham called with   , with over 600,000 behind.

The board ran out      , making a flush for Pham and keeping him near the top of the chip counts.

David Pham - 790,000

Jensen Toma is in the big blind when a player raises from early position to 18,000. Toma is the only caller.

Toma checks the flop of     and his opponent bets 18,000 again. Toma puts out two 25,000 chips, announcing a raise to 49,000. His opponent goes all-in and Toma calls for less, sitting on 193,000 more chips.

Toma has   , with both straight and flush draws. His opponent shows   .

The turn doesn't help Toma with a  , but the river   brings the flush and Toma gets the double.

Jensen Toma - 416,500

There is about 130,000 in the pot, on a board reading     , and the player in late position checks. Eric 'Buddha' Hoffman moves all in for 93,000. The cutoff calls, and the player in late position folds.

Hoffman shows    while the cutoff tables   .

The river is the   and Hoffman gets the double.

Eric Hoffman - 355,000

Josh Jackson gets all his chips in the middle before the flop from the hijack against a bigger stack in the cutoff.

Jackson:   
Opponent:   

Jackson has a commanding lead, until the     flop comes, giving his opponent a straight. However, Jackson picks up the nut flush draw, which comes in on the   turn to give him a lock on the pot for the double-up. The meaningless   falls on the river to complete the board, and Jackson stacks the chips.

Josh Jackson - 190,000

On a board reading    , with about 70,000 in the pot, there are four players to the flop. The small blind is all-in before the flop.

The player in early position checks, as does the player in late position. Craig Bateman is in the cutoff, and bets 75,000. The early-position and late-position players both fold.

The small blind shows,    and Bateman tables   .

The player who is all-in calls for an eight, but the   on the turn leaves her drawing deadand headed to the rail.

Craig Bateman - 330,000