Hand #60 Bryan Kim raised from the hijack to 2,400,000 and Kainalu McCue-Unciano reraised to 8,000,000 on the button. The action folded back around to Kim and he folded.
Hand #61 Vincent Chauve raised from under-the-gun to 2,400,000, the action folded to Benjamin Ector on the button and he made it 7,500,000. The blinds folded and Chauve let his hand go.
Hand #62 Bryan Kim moved all-in from under-the-gun and took the pot down.
Hand #63 Igor Yaroshevskyy raised all of his chips under-the-gun and took it down.
Hand #64 Vincent Chauve raised on the button to 2,400,000 and Igor Yaroshevskyy called from the big blind. They both checked to see the turn on the board, Yaroshevskyy led out for 3,000,000 and Chauve mucked his hand.
Hand #65: Vincent Chauve raised to 2.4 million and Hainalu McCue-Unciano defended his big blind. After McCue-Unciano check-called the 2.4 million continuation bet from Chauve on the flop, both players then checked the turn and river. McCue-Unciano tabled and took down the pot.
Hand #66: McCue-Unciano called from the small blind and Benjamin Ector checked his option in the big blind. Both players then checked to the turn on a board of , and McCue-Unciano then check-called a million bet from Ector. Both players then checked the river and McCue-Unciano tabled and took down his second-straight pot.
Hand #67: In the last hand of Day 4, action folded around to Bryan Kim in the hijack and he shoved all in. Igor Yaroshevskyy folded, but Kainalu McCue-Unciano shoved all in behind from the button, and both blinds got out of the way.
Bryan Kim:
Kainalu McCue-Unciano:
The board ran out , which gave McCue the full house and eliminated Kim in 7th place, one spot shy of the table that will be live-streamed on Day 5.
The remaining six players have bagged up with 31:47 remaining in the level and will be back in the Thunderdome at noon to play down to a champion. A recap of today's action is to follow.
Day 4 of Event #50: Monster Stack - $1,500 No-Limit Hold 'em has concluded at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino with just six players bagging chips at the end of the play. The day started with 49 players and was action packed right from the get-go, with only 28 remaining at the first break of the day.
After just short of 11 hours of play, they finished at level 40 and 31 minutes 47 seconds on the clock and will be resuming at the same point when the final day commences.
At the end of the day, Benjamin Ector (84,300,000) finished as the chip leader and was followed by Kainalu McCue-Unciano (68,300,000) and Gregory Katayama (55,100,000). Benjamin Ector has cashed in multiple events already this summer, including Event #28: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em for $7,356, and Event #17: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout for $5,279.
The final six line up is completed with Bart Hanson (40,600,000), Vincent Chauve (36,700,000) and Igor Yaroshevskyy (17,000,000).
The remaining 6 players will be restarting June 26, 2019, at 12:00 p.m and this event will be streamed the rest of the way on CBS. The players will be looking to earn themselves a WSOP gold bracelet and over one million dollars with first place being $1,008,850.
Seat Assignments for the Final Day
Seat
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Vincent Chauve
France
36,700,000
31
2
Igor Yaroshevskyy
Ukraine
17,000,000
14
3
Kainalu McCue-Unciano
United States
68,300,000
57
4
Benjamin Ector
United States
84,300,000
70
5
Bart Hanson
United States
40,600,000
34
6
Gregory Katayama
Canada
55,100,000
46
The day started out at a very fast pace, going from 49 players to 28 in the first two hours. Kevin "Racks" Roster, whose heartbreaking story about his battle with Sarcoma — a rare form of cancer — captured the hearts of the poker community, was one of the early bust outs, getting it all-in preflop with pocket queens against ace-king but couldn't win the flip when Elliot Peterman hit the king on the turn. He ultimately finished in 39th place and received $22,561 for his deep run.
The official final table happened right at the dinner break at around 7:30 p.m, and on the 35th hand, Javier Zarco was eliminated in 9th Place for $88,817. Zarco got it in with pocket queens but was dominated by Benjamin Ector's pocket kings and he couldn't catch up.
It was only six hands later when Andre Haneberg was eliminated in 8th Place for $114,694. Haneberg got all of his chips in the middle as a big underdog with ace-jack against Bart Hanson's pocket aces and Haneberg couldn't connect to crack the aces,
It took about another hour, but Bryan Kim was the next victim eliminated in 7th Place for $149,247. Kim was in a coin-flip situation but bricked the board and against Kainalu McCue-Unciano's pocket eights.
The remaining six players will be restarting at 12:00 p.m Wednesday, June 26, 2019, and this event will be streamed the rest of the way on CBS.
Follow along with the PokerNews live reporting team to see who will win the WSOP gold bracelet.