Four more hands

With 10 minutes left on the clock, a card has been drawn.  The field will play four more hands before bagging up for the night.  Currently, there are 11 players remaining, and the survivors will return tomorrow at 12pm EST for Day 3 of the $1,650 Main Event.

Recent eliminations: 12th-18th

12th Place: DNR ($6,064)
13th Place: Fred Paradis ($5,366)
14th Place: Peter Nadeau ($5,366)
15th Place: Jovy Ounthongdy ($5,366)
16th Place: Shane Ashton ($5,011)
17th Place: Eshan Ghods ($5,011)
18th Place: Ryan Methia ($5,011)

Je Wook Oh sends another to the rail

Je Wook Oh seems to be in every hand at the featured table, and he recently had Shawn at risk with pocket fours against Je Wook's king queen. Je Wook flopped a pair, and it held to send Shawn to the rail in 12th place, good for $6,064.

Photos from the last level

18th Place: Ryan Methia ($5,011)

Ryan Methia has been eliminated in 18th place when his [8h][8c] ran into his opponent's [Ks][Kd].  It was a dramatic flop as it fell [2s][8d][Kc], giving both players a set.  Ryan would need to hit the [8s] to survive.  The [4h] fell on the turn, and the [3c] his the river.  Ryan will earn $5,011 for his 18th place finish.

Last break of the night

19th-27th Place Finishers

19th Place: Donald Yucious ($4,653)
20th Place: Selajtin Jakupovsi ($4,653)
21st Place: Alex Cukar ($4,653)
22nd Place: James Kousouros ($4,295)
23rd Place: Long Tran ($4,295)
24th Place: Kurt Fitzgerald ($4,295)
25th Place: Christian Langenfelds ($3,579)
26th Place: Kenneth Rawlinson ($3,579)
27th(t) Place: Petko Tsakov ($1,790)

27th(t) Place: Rachel Kranz ($1,789)

Final 2 tables reached

Je Wook Oh eliminated our 19th place finisher in dramatic fashion when his [Ks][Kh] rivered a king against Donald Yicius's [Ac][9c].  The [2d][Ad][4d] flop put Donald in the lead, and the [8h] turn changed nothing.  But the [Kd] was the two outer Je Wook needed.  He shot out of his seat in excitement, and Donald was sent to the rail in 19th place.

The remaining 18 players are guaranteed a $5,011 pay day.  Tournament staff are breaking the third table now, and there are still 17 minutes left at 4,000/8,000 blinds with a 1,000 ante.

Photos from the final 4 tables

Players are now in the money

Everyone folded to Fred Paradis in the small blind, who pushed enough chips in to cover the big blind.  The big blind instacalled, tabling [Ac][Jc] and was up against Fred's [Th][5h].  Joanna the dealer dealt the [3s][6c][Ts] flop, pairing Fred.  The [5s] gave Fred an unbeatable two pair, and the meaningless [7h] meant the field was now in the money.

A player on another table went bust on the same hand, so the two players will split 27th place money, or roughly $1,789 each.

Play is now hand for hand

It only took 14 minutes after from coming back from dinner break to go from 31 players remaining to 28 remaining.  At the end of the current hand, play will be hand for hand.  The next player to be eliminated will be the bubble boy.

Cards are back in the air

Dinner break is complete, and the final 31 players have taken their seats.  Blinds are now 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante.  When the field reaches 28 players, play will go hand for hand.

Tarun G. has been eliminated

On the last hand before dinner break, a player in middle position opened to 10,500 at 2,500/5,000 blinds with a 500 ante.  Tarun G. committed his last 50,000 chips from the small blind.  As the dinner break begun, Tarun's opponent spent a long time in the tank, lasting around three to five minutes.  He eventually made the call, and was ahead with his [5h][5c] against Tarun's [Ah][Th].  The [9s][7h][Qc] flop brought not help to Tarun, but the [Kd] gave him a gutshot to go with his two overcards.  The [8h] changed nothing, however, sending Tarun to the rail in 31st place, only 4 spots shy of the money.

Players are now on dinner break

The 31 remaining players are now on a one hour dinner break.  Play will resume at approximately 7:30pm EST.  Je Wook Oh is doing well with over 500,000, while Fred Paradis is still nearing the top of the chip counts with 390,000.

Event #11 Prize Pool and Payouts

There were 190 entries in Event #11 $300 NLH Big Stack, creating a $49,400 prize pool.  The top 21 players will be in the money, with a mincash worth $670.  Here are the full payouts:

1st Place: $12,100
2nd Place: $7,786
3rd Place: $4,936
4th Place: $3,953
5th Place: $2,995
6th Place: $2,372
7th Place: $1,917
8th Place: $1,557
9th Place: $1,254
10th-12th Place: $862
13th-15th Place: $766
16th-18th Place: $718
19th-21st Place: $670

Players are now on break

The final 45 players in the $1,650 Main Event are now on a 15 minute break.  The tournament staff are coloring up and racing off the 100 chips.  When they return, blinds will be 2,000/4,000 with a 500 ante.

Level 16 chip counts

Level 16: 1,500/3,000 blinds with a 500 ante has begun.  Only 50 players remain, and the average chip stack is around 147,000.  Here are select chip counts from around the room:

Fred Paradis 462,000

Je Wook Oh 167,300

Tarun G. 126,300

Roland Israelashvili - 93,000
Sherwin Agard 98,200

Mike Nye 41, 300

Ryan Eriquezzo 29,700

Fred Paradis makes a tough call

The river read [2c][Kh][9h][3h][Tc] and Fred Paradis bet 10,000 before his opponent raised to 30,000.  Fred thought about the raise for quite some time, eventually electing to call for roughly 25% of his stack.  His opponent showed [Ac][Jh] for a missed flush draw, and Fred tabled [Kc][Jc] for top pair.  Fred's good call will put him over the 100,000 mark with 86 players remaining.

Day 2 is Under Way

Cards are in the air for Day 2 of $1,650 Main Event.  93 players remain from the both Flight A & B.  Justin Adams is the chip leader with 248,200.  With blinds at 800/1,600 with a 200 ante, Justin has 155 big blinds.  Other notables still in the field with at least 100,000 are Stephen Dare, Christopher Leong, Jason Calnan, Fred Paradis, Andrew Lauer, Roland Israelashvili, Je Wook Oh, and Ryan Eriquezzo.

You can watch the live stream of the feature table at www.FoxwoodsLive.com.

Event #11 is Under Way

Cards are in the air for the final event of the December Mega Stack, Event #11 $300 NLH Big Stack.  This event features 30,000 in starting chips and 20 minute levels for the first 25 levels, and then 30 minute levels.  A full structure is available here.

At 12pm, the $1,650 Main Event will resume with the final 93 players.

December 2014 - Mega Stack Challenge - Event #10 - $1,650 NLH - Returning Players for Day Two

Table-Seat	Name	Chip Count
7-1	Adams, Justin	248,200
2-5	Espinola, David	231,200
5-4	Tabb, Steven	173,400
10-2	Kachittavong, Soukha	170,400
10-9	Dare, Stephen	168,700
1-4	Bianco, Ben	167,000
11-9	Cyr, Nicholas	160,700
6-7	Tran, Long	150,200
7-8	Leong, Christopher	149,400
3-4	Walsh, Thomas	143,900
2-9	Calnan, Jason	133,100
7-5	Paradis, Fred	127,600
1-1	Undisclosed	126,100
3-1	Lauer, Andrew	125,900
1-7	Overton, Floyd	120,700
2-2	Tieri, Joseph	120,300
8-6	Wagner, Peter	115,900
8-4	Israelashvili, Roland	115,700
4-1	Kousouros, James	111,400
4-3	Starratt, Joe	110,400
11-1	Kluchman, David	104,100
9-7	Mumby, Jennifer	103,600
3-7	Ounthongdy, Jovy	102,600
5-2	Oh, JeWook	101,600
5-8	Eriquezzo, Ryan	101,400
4-9	Aprea, Thomas	101,300
6-3	Dobbs, Michael	101,200
7-7	Murray, Don	99,600
6-8	Mostafa, Ryan	99,500
2-7	Grimes, Terry	94,100
1-8	Smith, Aaron	93,300
7-6	Kuey, Natale	90,000
8-5	Milton, Thomas	82,500
10-5	Tsakov, Petko	82,200
4-4	Nadeau, Peter	81,600
8-2	Ashton, Shane	80,400
2-3	Yucius, Don	80,300
3-2	Jaffee, Larry	80,100
5-9	Im, Hee-Joong	80,000
9-9	Rivera, Alexander	79,500
1-9	Rawlinson, Kenneth	79,400
6-1	Kranz, Rachel	78,500
6-2	Nunez, Jimmy	78,500
10-8	Taylor, Samuel	78,200
2-6	Cukar, Alex	77,200
10-6	Loew, Aaron	76,900
3-9	Gulati, Tarun	75,600
7-4	Katikakis, Konstantinos	73,500
4-6	Hou, Ernie	72,600
1-6	Saeed, Omar	72,400
5-3	Mayor, Aaron	72,000
9-2	Nye, Mike	70,200
6-9	Cohen, Jeff	66,200
10-3	Pizzolato, Giuseppe	65,700
5-1	Mantuano, Silvio	64,200
9-8	Burke, Daniel	63,900
6-5	Methia, Ryan	61,900
8-8	Ricciuti, Bob	61,600
11-4	Reilly, Tim	60,400
9-3	Grover, Chris	58,900
1-3	Saunders, Jeff	58,900
9-4	Abdel-Rahim, Muhammad	58,000
2-8	Brestak, Roger	56,000
8-7	Markovikj, Kikja	56,000
11-6	Herron, Patricia	54,500
3-5	Kue, Tou	54,300
9-6	Langenfelds, Christian	52,600
6-6	Fitzgerald, Kurt	50,800
9-5	Patel, Raj	50,300
4-2	Perry, Mark	45,700
6-4	Agard, Sherwin	44,400
5-7	Chan, Daniel	41,000
3-8	Campbell, James	37,000
2-1	Roy, John	36,900
3-3	Lall, Bharat	36,300
11-8	Janczy, Jim	34,000
2-4	Jakupovski, Selajtin	33,400
8-3	Cedrone, James	33,000
11-7	Perry, Derrick	33,000
5-6	Frangoulidis, James	32,200
8-1	Centamore, Steve	32,100
11-2	Boucher, Matt	31,800
7-9	Everett, Peter	30,800
11-5	Berger, Jonathan	30,300
5-5	Saleba, Charles	28,900
10-1	Sgroi, Anthony	25,000
4-5	Datashvili, David	24,600
7-3	Ghods, Ehsan	22,300
3-6	Maslowski, Kimberly	20,100
4-8	Jarvela, Mike	19,300
1-2	Hyldburg, Tim	18,400
8-9	Bitondo, Attilio	14,500
10-7	Frey, Ken	14,300

Flight B is complete

39 players remain from Flight B and they are now bagging up their chips for the night. They will combine with the remaining players from flight A tomorrow at 12pm.

Kevin Calenzo and Dave Stefanski showered

Both Kevin Calenzo and Dave Stefanski have both been eliminated Flight B only a level short of the end of day.

Kevin took a bad beat, losing with [Ah][Kh] to his opponent's ace queen. The flop fell with two queens, and though Kevin turned a flush draw, the river was a brick.

Dave 3-bet shoved against a late position open holding ace jack, and he ran into his opponent's ace king.