1,100 Big 4 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 27: 30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 640

The 2018 SHRPO $1,100 Big 4 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) surpassed its $500K GTD by drawing 640 runners, which created a $640K prize pool and surpassed last year’s field by seven players.

By the end of the night, which concluded with a double knockout, just eight players remained in contention for the $119,465 first-place prize. They will return at 1 p.m. local time on Tuesday to play down to a winner on The Big 4 television set. Action will resume in Level 27 (30,000/60,000/60,000) with 26:08 left on the clock.

Joey Couden leads the remaining eight players. Meanwhile, Ireland’s Marc MacDonnell, who has made the final table for the second year in a row, is looking to improve upon last year’s third-place finish, which was good for $53,349.

Among the top 80 players to get paid on Monday were Nick Pupillo (9tth – $11,949), Marvin Rettenmaier (17^th – $6,560), Brian Hastings (42^nd – $2,771), Brittany Barnes (49^th – $2,451), and defending champ Brian Altman (80^th – $1,824).

Here are the official chip counts followed by the remaining prize pool:

Seat 1. Joey Couden – 3,045,000 (51 bb)
Seat 2. James Salmon – 1,260,000 (21 bb)
Seat 3. Marc MacDonnell – 1,145,000 (19 bb)
Seat 4. Paul Balzano – 1,970,000 (33 bb)
Seat 5. Adam Zeltser – 460,000 (8 bb)
Seat 6. Michael Graffeo – 1,585,000 (26 bb)
Seat 7. Maria Ho – 1,365,000 (23 bb)
Seat 8. Dennis Rodriguez – 1,975,000 (33 bb)

1^st: $119,465 + Trophy
2^nd: $83,750
3^rd: $53,939
4^th: $39,008
5^th: $29,933
6^th: $24,045
7^th: $19,981
8^th: $15,923