$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  41 of 1,102

Level 20 came to an end and the remaining players now have a 40-minute dinner break to enjoy the shops around the casino.

They will return around 7:10 pm and resume their march towards the title.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  50 of 1,102

Arkadiy Pervyy Bakhtin took the chip lead away from John Desoto but that did not last long. Bahktin drifted a bit back to the field while Desoto kept up his momentum to move up to 2,155,000 with the dinner break on the horizon.

Table 27 has a lot of chips in the mix as well with a lot of the players over 1,000,000 and we will map them out during the upcoming break.

Updated results:

63rd: Adrian Buckley – $1,145
64th: Ronie Bensimon – $1,145
65th: Jeffrey Rolland – $1,070
66th: David Kahan – $1,070
67th: David Shmuel – $1,070
68th: Carlo Rodriguez – $1,070
69th: Steve Zhang – $1,070
70th: William Buerosse Jr – $1,070
71st: Vigorn Dancharnjitt – $1,070
72nd: Jae Lee – $1,070

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  50 of 1,102

Another round of results is available with the money getting bigger the deeper we get. A few notables cashing include May Big Stack Special runner-up Caleb Piderit, 2017 SHR Tampa Winter Poker Open Champion Farid Jattin, and former SHR Hollywood champs Zoltan Czinkota and Richard Rice.

73rd: Trung Van – $995
74th: Dario Pistalo – $995
75th: Adam Feingold – $995
76th: Mahmut Urkun – $995
77th: Mark Guariglia – $995
78th: Philip Whitaker – $995
79th: Santiago Betancur – $995
80th: Tuan Phan – $995
81st: Julian Wohlgemuth – $920
82nd: Farid Jattin – $920
83rd: Charlemagne Benjamin – $920
84th: Selim Oulmekki – $920
85th: Jonathan Grasso – $920
86th: Jason Atherley – $920
87th: Dathan Kuppin – $920
88th: Brandon Navarrette – $920
89th: Caleb Piderit – $850
90th: Zoltan Czinkota – $850
91st: Jayson Friedman – $850
92nd: Samuel Ilan Charnis – $850
93rd: Brandon Berkenfeld – $850
94th: Claudio Kalili – $850
95th: Richard Perea – $850
96th: Richard Rice – $850

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  59 of 1,102

Arkadiy Pervyy Bakhtin had a big stack after Flight C but was flying under the radar on Day 2 until after the second break. We missed the hand but found Rick Kalgstein standing and shaking his head while Bakhtin was stacking up big.

Turns out that Bakhtin’s cracked Kalgstein’s aces and the table was still talking about it.

The end result was Kalgstein going out in 60th place while Bakhtin pushed his count all the way up to 1,785,000.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  63 of 1,102

The second break has come and gone and Event 1 players are back in their seats. While the 1K chips were coming out of play, we found five of the biggest stacks in the room with more than one million. John Desoto is the latest in the gang after a big hand and sits with 1,240,000 while Jermaine “Lion” Gerlin slid back to the second spot.

They will play through two more levels before enjoying a 40-minute dinner break.

John Desoto – 1,240,000 (124 bb)
Jermaine “Lion” Gerlin – 1,145,000 (115 bb)
Dave Vurgait – 1,100,000 (110 bb)
Brian Hunter – 1,035,000 (104 bb)
TK Miles – 1,010,000 (101 bb)

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  71 of 1,102

Another round of results included WSOP ring winner Steven Karp and former RRPO Championship winner Victor Figueroa.

97th: Steven Karp – $780
98th: Marc Sacher – $780
99th: Marco Rodriguez – $780
100th: Michael Newman – $780
101st: Dien Le – $780
102nd: Daniel Saffer – $780
103rd: Mark Hurst – $780
104th: Arthur Gallinaro – $780
105th: Ernesto Rencurrell – $710
106th: Richard Leger – $710
107th: David Poces – $710
108th: Michael Moreno – $710
109th: Jason Picciolo – $710
110th: David Smith – $710
111th: Stanislav Angelov – $710
112th: William Rincon – $710
113th: Victor Figueroa – $650
114th: Brian Barros Vazquez – $650
115th: Or Krief Haim – $650
116th: Pasquale Caiazza – $650
117th: Jora Beit – $650
118th: Santana Noronha – $650
119th: Evan Beard – $650
120th: Brian Baris – $650

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  78 of 1,102

Players are still dropping at a fast clip which means those chips have to go somewhere. Jermaine Gerlin was already among the big stacks and it looks like he’s taken bag the lead with 1,204,000.

TK Miles is the newest to join the leaders along with the million-chip club. The two-time WSOP Circuit ring winner sits right on 1,000,000 as the money gets bigger.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18:  4,000/8,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  90 of 1,102

Action has been flying since the money bubble slid by and we’re catching up on some resulting paperwork. Some of those cashing this afternoon include former SHRP winners Ido Ashkenazi and Scott Zakheim, WSOP Circuit ring-owner Nancy Birnbaum, and 2019 WSOP Millionaire Maker champ John Gorsuch.

121st: Henry Billete – $590
122nd: Ido Ashkenazi – $590
123rd: Fanil Kumar Patel – $590
124th: Sandy Sanchez – $590
125th: Altabal Mohamed – $590
126th: Mauricio Duarte – $590
127th: Nancy Birnbaum – $590
128th: Kevin Keenoy – $590
129th: Michael Johnson – $530
130th: David Clark – $530
131st: Robert Kessler – $530
132nd: Melissa Kaiser – $530
133rd: James Nilson – $530
134th: Scott Zakheim – $530
135th: Randy Burstein – $530
136th: Jose Manuel Gomez Jimenez – $530
137th: John Gorsuch – $530
138th: Horacio Collia – $530

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  101 of 1,102

We were summoned to Table 24 with the promise of a big pot and we were not disappointed. The board was out to the turn reading and David Shmuel caught us up.

Shmuel opened from middle position, the button three-bet, and Hector Pacheco four-bet to 125,000 from the small blind. Only the button came along to the flop and called another 135,000 from Pacheco. The turn prompted Pacheco to announce all in and the button was put to a decision for his last ~300,000.

After a few minutes of thinking, another player at the table called clock and the button folded before time ran out.

Pacheco showed , the button claimed to have folded kings, and Pacheco began building his million-chip castle.

Hector Pacheco – 1,062,000 (177 bb)

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  113 of 1,102

Things can change in a hurry. A walk amongst the tables during break found three more big stacks to top them all.

Jermaine “Lion” Gerlin bagged the biggest in Flight C and now he’s the top cat on Day 2 with 841,000. Ryan Hogan isn’t far behind with 820,000 while Argentinian Sebastian Sacca sits in third with 739,000.