With Ismael Keita’s elimination in 16th place, our Mega Stack players are now in the money. They are all guaranteed $680.00, and potentially win $10,250.00!

Just before hand-for-hand was enforced, Ali G was the victim of a serious bad beat. His fell to when the board presented 4 spades, in a runner-runner fashion. Ali walked away, not mad, but resigned.

Ismael called all-in under when monster stack Andrew Hanson shoved from mid-position. Andrew tabled , and Ismael showed . He was in good shape, but the board disagreed: . When the ace fell, Alex Keo said Andrew had hit a 1-outer, meaning he had mucked an ace himself.

Congratulations to all money earners!

Players just took another break, and the T1000 are now off the tables. We put together a list of the current top 5 stacks, and Andrew Hansen, thanks to the last hand before the break, is leading the pack with 1,150,000 chips! Behrooz Salemi also has cracked the million mark. The average stack now represents 12 big blinds, so we can expect players to clash at an unbridled pace.

Here is our top 5:

The Mega Stack just dropped to 3 tables, and stacks are increasingly obscene. We will bring you an updated leaderboard in a about an hour, once the next break allows it. Note that Maria Ho is still around, having registered late in the Event, after busting from the Second Chance.

Here are some more shots of the late field:

Players are resuming play after a short break, during which the tournament staff raced off 2 different denominations of chips, namely the T100 and the T500. We surveyed the 5 remaining tables to create a leaderboard, and found 8 players that had over 5 times the starting stack. The list is overseen by Dan Edery, followed very closely by Alex Keo. Both have over 500K.

Here is our current top 8:

We now have the prize pool information for Event 14, the Mega Stack. 147 players got together for this 30K guaranteed tournament, which was 50% more players than needed to meet it. The total pot is $42,777.00, and $10,250.00 are reserved for the winner of the Event, who will also bring home the Champion’s Trophy.

Here are the payouts:

Here are some early photos from the Mega Stack turbo: