Politano Heads to Dinner With a Fat Stack, Plus Full Chip Counts

The 90-minute dinner break has commenced, Bruno Politano has continued to gobble up chips during Level 22.

Politano grabbed the chip lead with a monster set-over-set pot last level, and he’s stretched it in the two hours since. With 5.271 million in chips, he holds a wide lead over second place.

Benger picked up a big pot late in the level when he picked up against the of Bob Miller, busting Miller when he failed to find another jack.

Benger will have the opportunity to significantly chip up (or down) before the night is over, as he just got moved to one of the secondary feature tables with fellow hefty stacks Dan Smith and Tony Ruberto. Benger’s position is ideal, as he drew Seat 4, to the immediate left of Ruberto (Seat 3) and Smith (Seat 2).

The leader coming into the day, Matthew Haugen, has been unable to gain any traction, finding himself under the 2 million mark after he came into the day toting 2.8 million.

A noble cause received a nice donation, as David Einhorn was eliminated in 173 when his failed to improve against an opponent’s . Einhorn collected nearly $45,000, which will go to a charity called Robin Hood.

Former standout poker coach Brian Townsend ran his jacks into aces to bow out as well.

Blake Cahail (172nd), Rep Porter (174th), John Kabbaj (179th), Roland Israelashvili (180th), Jeff Madsen (188th) were among the other notable names exiting this level.

While you wait for the return of play, enjoy this timeless video from the 2012 WSOP Main Event where Mickey Doft races to count "the stack."

Player	Chips	Progress
Bruno Politano	5,271,000 21,000	21,000

Griffin Benger	3,937,000 17,000	17,000
Kyle Keranen	3,674,000 41,000	41,000
Leif Force	3,567,000 312,000	312,000

Andoni Larrabe	3,376,000 476,000	476,000
Clayton Hamm	3,296,000 61,000	61,000
Scott Palmer	3,177,000 698,000	698,000
Tony Ruberto	3,050,000 430,000	430,000
Mark Newhouse	3,042,000 612,000	612,000

Dan Smith	2,854,000 146,000	146,000

Martin Jacobson	2,721,000 19,000	19,000

Matt Waxman	2,655,000 20,000	20,000

Jason Johnson	2,581,000 119,000	119,000
Brian Hastings	2,569,000 891,000	891,000

Clayton Maguire	2,560,000 40,000	40,000

Isaac Baron	2,468,000 62,000	62,000

Anh Van Nguyen	2,380,000 690,000	690,000
Peter Placey	2,366,000 106,000	106,000
Matthew Haugen	2,360,000 365,000	365,000
Dan Sindelar	2,246,000 754,000	754,000
Mikiyo Aoki	2,235,000 325,000	325,000
Craig McCorkell	2,200,000 238,000	238,000

Jeffrey Loiacono	2,184,000 684,000	684,000
Robert Park	2,153,000 103,000	103,000
Andrey Zaichenko	2,136,000 6,000	6,000

Dong Guo	2,050,000 940,000	940,000
Curtis Rystadt	2,046,000 272,000	272,000
Vladimir Bozinovic	2,001,000 19,000	19,000
Luis Velador	1,998,000 214,000	214,000

Michael Kamran	1,922,000 222,000	222,000
Aaron Kaiser	1,893,000 711,000	711,000
Matthew Mcewan	1,879,000 18,000	18,000
Marc Tschirch	1,871,000 69,000	69,000
Zachary Hirst	1,845,000 75,000	75,000
Ryan Fair	1,845,000 489,000	489,000
Chris Johnson	1,825,000 65,000	65,000
Christopher Shaw	1,804,000 247,000	247,000
Nicholas Nardello	1,781,000 899,000	899,000
Lee Taylor	1,776,000 151,000	151,000
Vadzim Markushevski	1,746,000 136,000	136,000
Kane Kalas	1,715,000 125,000	125,000
Trevor Martin	1,684,000 9,000	9,000
Bryan Devonshire	1,672,000 732,000	732,000
Anthony Diotte	1,660,000 80,000	80,000
Farid Jattin	1,636,000 206,000	206,000
Iaron Lightbourne	1,620,000 200,000	200,000
Jason Weber	1,617,000 63,000	63,000
Matthew Sedgeman	1,605,000 515,000	515,000
Samuel Wasserman	1,580,000 860,000	860,000
Pakinai Lisawad	1,580,000 340,000	340,000
Christopher Greaves	1,545,000 251,000	251,000
Hunter Cichy	1,540,000 830,000	830,000

Luis Assuncao	1,501,000 866,000	866,000
Mukul Pahuja	1,457,000 307,000	307,000
Michael Finstein	1,436,000 634,000	634,000
Chanracy Khun	1,430,000 795,000	795,000

Vitaly Lunkin	1,421,000 466,000	466,000

Nathan Goldstein	1,420,000 70,000	70,000
Shahen Martirosian	1,405,000 305,000	305,000
Pfizer Jordan	1,402,000 648,000	648,000
Joshua Atkinson	1,400,000 1,400,000	1,400,000
Stuart Rutter	1,346,000 180,000	180,000
Jorryt van Hoof	1,331,000 1,042,000	1,042,000
Michael Aron	1,317,000 318,000	318,000
Donys Angelli	1,308,000 28,000	28,000
Steven Bennett	1,305,000 903,000	903,000
Henrik Hecklen	1,300,000 650,000	650,000
Ali Eslami	1,300,000 275,000	275,000

William Tonking	1,275,000 235,000	235,000
Maria Ho	1,270,000 480,000	480,000
Grayson Nichols	1,234,000 1,234,000	1,234,000
Michael Stembera	1,233,000 182,000	182,000
Mats Karlsson	1,197,000 43,000	43,000
Quentin Siffledeen	1,189,000 531,000	531,000
Kyung Cha	1,189,000 28,000	28,000
Daniel Wilson	1,187,000 377,000	377,000
Greg Himmelbrand	1,170,000 105,000	105,000
Brian Roberts	1,166,000 99,000	99,000
Maximilian Senft	1,146,000 71,000	71,000
Michael McGonigle	1,130,000 373,000	373,000
Bryan Shay	1,128,000 122,000	122,000
Nick Yunis	1,094,000 619,000	619,000
Oscar Kemps	1,085,000 682,000	682,000
Kyle Bowker	1,085,000 305,000	305,000

Sean Dempsey	1,067,000 63,000	63,000

Thomas Sarra Jr	1,050,000 126,000	126,000
Yorane Kerignard	1,026,000 49,000	49,000
Zachary Walker	1,021,000 201,000	201,000
Gabriel Paul	1,018,000 250,000	250,000
Peter Neff	995,000 240,000	240,000
Timur Margolin	992,000 303,000	303,000

Felix Stephensen	972,000 478,000	478,000
Jason Leifer	956,000 211,000	211,000
Daniel Miles	952,000 172,000	172,000
Gianfranco Visalli	929,000 671,000	671,000
Jonathan Aguiar	928,000 13,000	13,000

Soon Hwang	927,000 72,000	72,000
Eddy Sabat	919,000 19,000	19,000
Marius Pospiech	888,000 842,000	842,000
Adam Lamphere	883,000 332,000	332,000
Danny Yousefzadeh	863,000 77,000	77,000
Thomas Applegate	862,000 357,000	357,000
Benjamin Gold	852,000 129,000	129,000
Gal Erlichman	839,000 226,000	226,000
Nathan Fletcher	825,000 445,000	445,000
Alex Outhred	803,000 68,000	68,000
Alexios Zervos	797,000 113,000	113,000
Jack Schanbacher	793,000 507,000	507,000
Robert Campbell	783,000

Billy Pappas	760,000 304,000	304,000

Chase Fredensburg	750,000 73,000	73,000
Bradley Lussier	718,000 682,000	682,000
David Yingling	685,000 163,000	163,000
Christopher Sly	664,000 4,000	4,000
Chris Odle	661,000 6,000	6,000
Hieu Nguyen	656,000 656,000	656,000
William Cole	637,000 57,000	57,000
Michael Palo	620,000 279,000	279,000
Benjamin Koziol	609,000 326,000	326,000
Manig Loeser	589,000 791,000	791,000

Justin Swilling	586,000 534,000	534,000
Rob Vannucci	584,000 84,000	84,000
Joas Mudde	561,000 61,000	61,000
Scott Mahin	560,000 221,000	221,000
Tom Midena	549,000 351,000	351,000
Vladimir Shchemelev	543,000 617,000	617,000
Marcia Kuntz	530,000 700,000	700,000
Jeffrey Chang	510,000 612,000	612,000
Garrett Greer	503,000 167,000	167,000
Emil Olsson	466,000 44,000	44,000
Joe Curcio	461,000
Paul Senter	455,000 145,000	145,000
Huy Nguyen	430,000 24,000	24,000
Todd Rebello	429,000 39,000	39,000
Raymond Ezzie	426,000 54,000	54,000
Chad Eveslage	381,000 81,000	81,000

Vincent Maglio	358,000 12,000	12,000
Timothy Reilly	337,000 46,000	46,000
Pierre Canali	335,000 40,000	40,000
Adam Coats	319,000 21,000	21,000
Jason Deutsch	314,000 44,000	44,000
Simon Charette	285,000 84,000	84,000

Byron Kaverman	283,000 32,000	32,000

Dean Baranowski	274,000 180,000	180,000
Casey Stewart	259,000 148,000	148,000
Michael Arage	238,000 305,000	305,000
Darlene Lee	190,000 167,000	167,000
David Tuthill	75,000 345,000	345,000

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