Through 4 levels of play, we’ve seen 3 players get eliminated from Event 15. The first to go was Ankush Mandavia, who has jumped into The Second Chance tournament running alongside. Next out was Sam Greenwood, who turned a queen-high flush versus the ace-high flush of Marc-Étienne McLaughlin for all of the potatoes.
Samuel Chartier was then moved into Sam’s seat, and from the small blind he limp-raised Marc-Étienne big blind open. Marc-Étienne clicked-it-back and Samuel responded with a shove, quickly followed by a call. Hands were tabled and it was a cooler – Samuel’s 
versus Marc-Étienne’s 
. Marc-Étienne flopped a set of kings on the 
board to take the lead, but Samuel found a straight on the running 
to double up to around 50K, leaving Marc-Étienne with roughly the same count behind.
Anastasios was the next player eliminated from the field, as his 
fell second-best to the 
of Gerald Karlic. The money went in on an ace-high flop.
As level 5 begins, it’s Ari Engel who holds the biggest stack, having run up his 30,000 starting stack up to 71,450. George Caragiorgas sits in a comfortable 2nd place with 61,400, while Samuel and Marc-Étienne occupy 3rd and 4th place with around 50,000 each.
Late registration will remain open until the end of level 6, giving players until 5:45pm to register in this the biggest buy-in of the series.
