$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  8 of 1,102

Players redrew their seats at the final table and cards are back in the air with Rya Logan leading followed closely by Hector Pacheco. They will finish playing the 77 minutes remaining in Level 27 before bagging for the night.

Seat 1: Paul Freedman – 2,300,000 (38 bb)
Seat 2: Vinny Monteiro – 2,900,000 (48 bb)
Seat 3: Arkadiy Pervyy Bakhtin – 4,100,000 (68 bb)
Seat 4: John Desoto – 2,100,000 (35 bb)
Seat 5: Ryan Hogan – 7,565,000 (126 bb)
Seat 6: Rafael Lima – 3,800,000 (63 bb)
Seat 7: Marc Duquette – 3,230,000 (54 bb)
Seat 8: Hector Pacheco – 7,100,000 (118 bb)

Remaining payouts:

1st: $62,160 + Trophy
2nd: $43,630
3rd: $28,310
4th: $20,965
5th: $15,860
6th: $12,800
7th: $9,895
8th: $7,305

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  8 of 1,102

We caught the preflop action with Josh Phillips facing a bet of 830,000 from Ryan Hogan in the small blind. Phillips moved all in for 2,015,000, Hogan thought for a minute and called to put Phillips at risk.

Hogan:
Phillips:

Phillips was in great shape to double up but Hogan caught his queen on the flop. The board finished with the turn and river for the bad beat exit in ninth place.

Ryan Hogan – 7,565,000 (126 bb)
Josh Phillips – Eliminated in 9th Place ($7,305)

Tournament staff paused the clock and the last eight players are redrawing seats for the final table.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  9 of 1,102

On the first hand back from break, Matthew Zarcadoolas and Marc Duquette got their chips in the middle with similar stacks.

Duquette:
Zarcadoolas:

Zarcadoolas found a tough spot and could not find any help as the board ran out to end his day in 10th place.

Marc Duqette – 3,230,000 (54 bb)
Matthew Zarcadoolas – Eliminated in 10th Place ($5,315)

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  10 of 1,102

The 10 remaining players were sent on the last break of the night and return to 90-minute levels. Blinds were raised to 30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante and the average stack is 3,310,000 (55 bb)

Table 1
Seat 2: Ryan Hogan – 5,550,000 (93 bb)
Seat 3: John Desoto – 2,140,000 (36 bb)
Seat 4: Paul Freedman – 2,290,000 (38 bb)
Seat 6: Josh Phillips – 1,870,000 (31 bb)
Seat 7: Hector Pacheco – 7,230,000 (121 bb)

Table 2
Seat 4: Rafael Lima – 3,805,000 (63 bb)
Seat 5: Matthew Zarcadoolas – 1,530,000 (26 bb)
Seat 6: Arkadiy Pervyy Bakhtin – 4,200,000 (70 bb)
Seat 7: Vinny Monteiro – 2,875,000 (48 bb)
Seat 8: Marc Duqette – 1,550,000 (26 bb)

Remaining payouts:

1st: $62,160 + Trophy
2nd: $43,630
3rd: $28,310
4th: $20,965
5th: $15,860
6th: $12,800
7th: $9,895
8th-9th: $7,305
10th: $5,315

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  10 of 1,102

Vinny Monteiro opened to 110,000 from the button and Skip McDonough moved all in from the big blind for 900,000. Monteiro called and the hands were tabled.

Monteiro:
McDonough:

McDonough was in a tough spot and it got worse when Monteiro paired his king on the flop. The turn and river finished the board to send McDonough out in 11th place.

Vinny Monteiro – 2,100,000 (42 bb)
Skip McDonough – Eliminated in 11th Place ($5,315)

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  11 of 1,102

Antonio Colon was moved into Federico Herrera’s spot to balance tables and quickly mixed it up with his short stack. He found a small double then picked up a hand in the small blind. It folded to him, he moved all in for ~590,000 with big slick but Ryan Hogan woke up in the big blind with a monster and called.

Hogan:
Colon:

Tough short stack blind-v-blind hand for Colon and he found no help on the run out to exit in 12th place.

Ryan Hogan – 4,600,000 (115 bb)
Antonio Colon – Eliminated in 12th Place ($4,295)

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  12 of 1,102

With the board out to the turn reading , Josh Phillips bet 200,000 and Federico Herrera called on the button. The river was and Phillips moved all in for 1,275,000. Herrera thought for several minutes, counted out a call that would leave him very short, then dropped in a call.

Phillips:
Herrera:

Phillips flopped top pair, turned two pair, and river a flush to double against Herrera’s two pair ace kicker. Herrera was short and eliminated on the next hand by Ryan Hogan.

Josh Phillips – 3,150,000 (79 bb)
Federico Herrera – Eliminated in 13th Place ($4,295)

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  13 of 1,102

Action folded to Tony Nicola in the small blind and he moved all in for ~560,000. Ryan Hogan looked at his cards in the big blind and quickly called.

Hogan:
Nicola:

Nicola needed help to double but missed the flop. The turn came followed by the river . For a brief moment, some of the table thought Nicola doubled but that queen was no good when it gave Hogan the spade flush.

Ryan Hogan – 5,300,000 (133 bb)
Tony Nicola – Eliminated in 14th Place ($3,340)

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  14 of 1,102

Level 24 came to an end and the players took a 10-minute break. On the last hand, David Vugair was eliminated by Rafael Lima.

One the first hand back, Ryan Hogan opened to 100,000 and Carlos Mejia called from the cutoff. The flop came , Hogan checked, Mejia moved all in for 550,000 and Hogan quickly called.

Hogan:
Mejia:

Mejia caught top pair but Hogan was ahead with his pair of Kings. The turn gave Mejia additional gutshot outs but he blanked the river to exit in 15th place.

15th: Carlos Mejia – $3,340
16th: David Vugait – $3,340

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 24:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  16 of 1,102

Brenno Dos Santos Alencastro was short-stacked and made a move with his last 530,000. Vinny Monteiro looked him up with a big hand.

Monteiro:
Santos: 

Santos needed to catch a king or a miracle to double but missed the board to exit in 17th place.

That dropped Event 1 down to the last two tables of the tournament.

Vinny Monteiro – 2,450,000 (82 bb)
Brenno Dos Santos Alencastro – Eliminated in 17th Place ($2,675)