Welcome to Day 4 of Event #47: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em MONSTER STACK Where a Champion Will be Crowned
The final day of Event #47: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em MONSTER STACK is set to begin at 11:00 a.m. Just 20 players are left to return to battle it out for a massive first-place prize worth $1,094,349.
The chip leader coming into the day is Stoyan Obreshkov, sitting on a stack of 11,300,000. Close behind him is Stanley Lee with 8,980,000, and Joldis Cosmin rounds out the top three with 7,935,000.
These 20 players survived a huge field of 6,717 unique entries. Day 2 started with 1,944 players on Monday morning, and of those remaining, 234 players made it to Day 3. The surviving players coming back today are each guaranteed a payout of $37,831, but all are focused on pocketing over a million dollars for first place along with the gold WSOP bracelet.
Other notables still in contention are Scott Montgomery (7,335,000), Will "The Thrill" Failla (5,400,000), Yuliyan Kolev (4,195,000), two-time WSOP bracelet winner Brian Yoon (3,900,000), Ihar Soika (3,525,000), Maurice Hawkins (3,500,000) and Scott Baumstein (1,955,000).
Day 4 will play out with 60-minute levels. There will be a 15-minute break every two levels, plus a scheduled 60-minute dinner break after the sixth level at approximately 5:30 p.m. Players will play until only one remains and a champion has been crowned.
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