Event #51: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Monster Stack Day 2 | 2014 World Series of Poker

06-28-2014 02:03 UTC-7

Lovgren Slips

[user80015]

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

Facing an all-in of 36,000, Sofia Lovgren iso-shoved for roughly 90,000.

Lovgren:
Opponent:

The board ran out to see Lovgren lose the race and double her opponent up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sofia Lovgren	50,000 -30,000	-30,000

Tags: Sofia Lovgren

06-28-2014 02:06 UTC-7

Monnette Making Moves

Josh_Cahlik

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

Action folded around to the player on the button and he made it 14,000 to go. John Monnette was in the small blind and cut out a three-bet to 28,500. The big blind folded and the button thought for about 30 seconds before tossing out a call.

The two saw a flop of and Monnette continued for 22,000. This bet sent his opponent into the tank for well over two minutes. All of the while, Monnette sat motionless except for the riffling of some chips. Ultimately, Monnette's opponent kicked his cards in and Monnette was pushed the pot. His stack is now up to about 550,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
John Monnette	550,000 100,000	100,000

Tags: John Monnette

06-28-2014 02:11 UTC-7

Duval Unimpressed

[user252447]

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

A very pleasant older lady sporting a pink cast on her wrist raised preflop and Jason Duval said he was going to have to call.

“You always do.” she responded.

The flop was . The lady bet and Duval sighed before moving all in. She made the call and Duval turned over .

“Oh I can’t even hit the six.” she said dismayed and turned over .

The turn soon solved that with the river coming the .

“I thought you had nothing. I thought you were just trying to bully me.” was her explanation for the call.

Duval was left bemoaning a five per-cent bad beat considering all the re-draws he had. That was a hit of nearly 70,000 to Duval’s stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jason Duval	440,000 -85,000	-85,000

06-28-2014 02:12 UTC-7

Recent Eliminations

Josh_Cahlik

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Donald Michael	Busted
Basil Lombardo	Busted
Humberto Brenes	Busted

Fabio Baduy	Busted
David Byer	Busted
Zachery Coelius	Busted
Elizabeth Bennettmartin	Busted
Oleksii Kovalchuk	Busted

Igor Jankovic	Busted
Victor Carrera	Busted
Nathaniel Metzgner	Busted
Gary Haglund	Busted
Corey Esposito	Busted
Robert Matthews	Busted
Paul Zibits	Busted
Brandon Price	Busted
Alan Hendrickson	Busted
Richard Jacoby	Busted
Lanier Davenport	Busted
Harold Evans	Busted
Jose Esparza	Busted
Edmund Liu	Busted
Raymond Phu	Busted
Andres Johansson	Busted

06-28-2014 02:16 UTC-7

Another Break in Play

[user80015]

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

The tournament directors have paused play for the second time during the level to catch up on the bevy of eliminations.

06-28-2014 02:20 UTC-7

More Eliminations

Josh_Cahlik

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kyle Knecht	Busted
Perry Chou	Busted
James Biehl	Busted
Jose Drillon	Busted
Mickey Petersen	Busted
Luca Moschitta	Busted
Jarreth East	Busted
Joseph Daddario	Busted
John Song	Busted
Mark Miller	Busted
Elias Brussianos	Busted
Daniel Laurie	Busted
Andres Johansson	Busted
Alan Hendrickson	Busted
Christian Harder	Busted

Adam Hui	Busted
Sam Greenwood	Busted

Kimberly Bell	Busted
Elvio Pazienza	Busted
Vincent Stroup	Busted
Peter Kim Jr	Busted
Bart Tichelman	Busted
Nils Lehmensiek	Busted
Angsumalee Johnson	Busted
Gerald Trass	Busted

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06-28-2014 02:27 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

[user80015]

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

The cards are back in the air and here are a random assortment of counts.

Player	Chips	Progress
Soi Nguyen	500,000 55,000	55,000
Dan O'Brien	440,000 -20,000	-20,000
Martins Adeniya	430,000 -25,000	-25,000
Jason Wheeler	400,000 50,000	50,000

Bryan Campanello	380,000 40,000	40,000

Jeff Madsen	360,000 -110,000	-110,000

Steven Levy	320,000
Maria Ho	260,000 160,000	160,000

06-28-2014 02:33 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

[user80015]

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Tom Alner	610,000 500,000	500,000
Jason Duval	540,000 100,000	100,000

Taylor Paur	340,000 313,000	313,000

Mustapha Kanit	330,000 261,000	261,000

Jonas Hagstrom	255,000 205,800	205,800

06-28-2014 02:37 UTC-7

Griffin Gets Govert

[user252447]

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

Griffin Benger is on a bit of a tear since he was forced to move tables and was separated from his drinking buddies. He had been grinding a short stack for most of the day but was now sitting on 100,000 thanks to a suited versus and then picking up .

On a hand a few moments ago there was and opened to 17,000 and the Govert Metaal moved all in for 60,000. Benger moved all in too for 100,000 and the original raiser didn’t look happy about it but folded.

Metaal turned over but Benger had him with .

The cards ran out and Benger was back in business.

Player	Chips	Progress
Griffin Benger	180,000 125,000	125,000
Govert Metaal	Busted

Tags: Govert Metaal Griffin Benger

06-28-2014 02:40 UTC-7

Those No Longer With Us

Josh_Cahlik

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Richard Gravino	Busted
Rumen Ganev	Busted
Wendy Freedman	Busted
Jason Antonelli	Busted
James Bomar	Busted
Paul Paez	Busted
David Roepke	Busted
Jeffrey Olsen	Busted
Joseph Courtney	Busted
Claude Gunraj	Busted
Jonah Miller	Busted
Deip Paul	Busted
John Bare	Busted
Olivier Desenailhac	Busted
Bradley Albright	Busted
Hal Lubarsky	Busted
Alan Sing	Busted
Edward Harmann	Busted
Marcus Bower	Busted
Mark White	Busted
Kao Saechao	Busted
Donald Brown	Busted
Matthew Parry	Busted

David Botcowsky	Busted
Paul Stanechewski	Busted

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