$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 24: 12,000/24,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players: 18 of 828 players remaining

Andy Spears moved all in for 342,000 from the hijack only to have Ruslan Dykshteyn three-bet jam all in over the top from the cutoff for 641,000. The button and blinds all folded and the cards were turned up.

Dykshteyn:
Spears:

The flop gave Dykshteyn a set, and that meant Spears needed to go runner-runner to stay alive. The turn took away any chance of that happening, and Spears was officially eliminated from the tournament after the was put out on the river.

Ruslan Dykshteyn – 1 million
Andy Spears – Eliminated in 19th Place

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 17: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 18 of 105

Daniel Strelitz raised all in from the button for 272,000 and Franciso Picasso called from the small blind.

Strelitz:
Picasso:

The board came down , giving Strelitz a pair of aces to double through Picasso.

Daniel Strelitz – 572,000 (36 bb)
Franciso Picasso – 280,000 (17 bb)

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 24: 12,000/24,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players: 19 of 828 players remaining

Kyle Keranen raised to 48,000 under the gun and Jeremy Menard responded by moving all in for 195,000 from the hijack. Action folded back to Keranen and he made the call.

Keranen:
Menard:

It was a flip, and Menard was just looking to hold. He did so on both the flop and turn, but the river was a dagger through his heart as Keranen made a winning pair of kings.

Kyle Keranen – 800,000
Jeremy Menard – Eliminated in 20th Place

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 17: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 19 of 105

Pablo Fernandez opened to 32,000 in early position, and Ray Qartomy called in the small blind. Joe Kuether squeezed in a three-bet to 116,000 from the big blind, and Fernandez moved all in for about 240,000 total. Qartomy folded, but Kuether called to put Fernandez at risk.

Fernandez –
Kuether –

The board ran out , and Kuether won the flip to earn the knockout pot with a pair of jacks. Fernandez was eliminated.

Joe Kuether – 940,000 (59 bb)
Pablo Fernandez – Eliminated

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 17: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 20 of 105

David Peters moved all in for 181,000 on the button, and Marvin Rettenmaier re-shoved for about 540,000 in the small blind. Rainer Kempe folded his big blind, and Peters was heads up and flipping for his tournament life.

Peters:
Rettenmaier:

The board ran out , and Rettenmaier won the flip to earn the knockout pot with sevens up. Peters was eliminated.

Marvin Rettenmaier – 750,000 (47 bb)
David Peters – Eliminated

$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
End of Level 24: 12,000/24,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 529

On Monday evening, the second of The Big 4 final tables were set and it’s 21-year-old Florida native Bradley Snider with a big chip lead heading into the final day of play in the $2,650 No Limit Hold’em.

Snider finished the day with 3,210,000 in chips and has more than double his closest competitor. The 21-year-old leads a final table that has plenty of experience at it.

Dan Heimiller, Jerry Wong, James Gilbert, Dermot Blain, and Koray Aldemir will all be joining Snider on Tuesday.

Heimiller is a long-time veteran of the game with two WSOP bracelets to his name. Wong is a current November Niner, Gilbert has over $1 million in career tournament earnings and a second place finish in a WPT main event, while Aldemir final tabled the $100,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop this past summer at the WSOP. Blain brings an international flair to the final table. The Irish pro has over $2 million in tournament earnings and finished second in a preliminary event this series.

Rounding out the final table are Alex Wilson, Jeffrey Chang, and well-known online pro Nicholas Immekus.

The Day 2 action kicked off on Monday at noon with 99 players coming back with hopes of surviving long enough to make the final table.

The top 71 players earned a payday and the bubble was burst fairly quickly in the day’s action, with the final 71 players in the money before the first break of the day hit.

Even after the bubble burst, the eliminations continued to pile up and many top pros hit the rail. TK Miles (61st), John Racener (46th), Jake Cody (34th), Noah Bronstein (32nd), Jake Bazeley (30th), Chino Rheem (28th), Ben Zamani (25th), Jeremy Ausmus (23rd), and Scott Clements (16th) were among the notable pros to hit the rail inside the money.

Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown champion Justin Young fell just shy of making this final table, finishing in 10th place when his king-queen fell victim to Snider’s ace-king.

Young’s elimination secured spots at the final table for the remaining nine players. They will get cards back in the air for the final table on Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Hard Rock Live.

All four of The Big 4 final tables will be running simultaneously alongside one another with Maria Ho and Ali Nejad MC’ing the action.

Here is the seating arrangement and chip counts for the final table:

Seat 1: Nicholas Immekus – 495,000
Seat 2: James Gilbert – 965,000
Seat 3: Jeffrey Chang – 580,000
Seat 4: Dan Heimiller – 1,370,000
Seat 5: Bradley Snider – 3,210,000
Seat 6: Jerry Wong – 1,345,000
Seat 7: Koray Aldemir – 680,000
Seat 8: Alex Wilson – 1,305,000
Seat 9: Dermot Blain – 630,000

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 17: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 21 of 105

In a battle of the blinds, Ben Heath was all in for about 190,000 from the big blind with against Barry Hutter in the small blind with .

The board ran out , giving Hutter a pair of kings to eliminate Heath.

Barry Hutter – 1,205,000 (75 bb)
Ben Heath – Eliminated

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Heading to Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 29 of 234

Flight A: 234 Entries, 29 Advanced
Flight B: Tuesday @ 5pm

Day 1A chip counts:

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 17: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 21 of 105

Daniel Strelitz raised to 35,000 from the hijack, Nick Schulman three-bet shoved from the small blind for 180,000, and Strelitz called.

Strelitz:
Schulman:

The board came down , no help to Strelitz, locking up the double for Schulman.

Nick Schulman – 390,000 (24 bb)
Daniel Strelitz – 260,000 (16 bb)

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 23: 10,000/20,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players: 22 of 828 players remaining

Not long ago, Phillip Hui got lucky to double through Allen Kessler to . Now, Hui has finished off his opponent.

It happened when Hui moved all in for around 175,000 from the hijack and Kessler, who barely had less than that, opted to call off from the button.

“You can have the rest of my chips,” Kessler said as the blinds both folded.

Kessler:
Hui:

“It’s not looking good, Allen,” someone at the table said when it was revealed Hui was drawing to two live cards.

“I’ve never beat this guy in my lifetime,” Kessler deadpanned.

The flop kept Kessler in the lead, but it didn’t change his mood.

“Ten,” he said, pointing out Hui would make a straight with that card. Sure enough, the dealer burned and turned the . The was run out on the river and a frustrated Kessler took his leave from the tournament in 23rd place.

Phillip Hui – 390,000
Allen Kessler – Eliminated in 23rd Place