Politano Heads to Dinner With a Fat Stack, Plus Full Chip Counts

Mickey Doft

Level 22 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

The 90-minute dinner break has commenced, Bruno Politano has continued to gobble up chips during Level 22.

Politano grabbed the chip lead with a monster set-over-set pot last level, and he’s stretched it in the two hours since. With 5.271 million in chips, he holds a wide lead over second place.

Benger picked up a big pot late in the level when he picked up against the of Bob Miller, busting Miller when he failed to find another jack.

Benger will have the opportunity to significantly chip up (or down) before the night is over, as he just got moved to one of the secondary feature tables with fellow hefty stacks Dan Smith and Tony Ruberto. Benger’s position is ideal, as he drew Seat 4, to the immediate left of Ruberto (Seat 3) and Smith (Seat 2).

The leader coming into the day, Matthew Haugen, has been unable to gain any traction, finding himself under the 2 million mark after he came into the day toting 2.8 million.

A noble cause received a nice donation, as David Einhorn was eliminated in 173 when his failed to improve against an opponent’s . Einhorn collected nearly $45,000, which will go to a charity called Robin Hood.

Former standout poker coach Brian Townsend ran his jacks into aces to bow out as well.

Blake Cahail (172nd), Rep Porter (174th), John Kabbaj (179th), Roland Israelashvili (180th), Jeff Madsen (188th) were among the other notable names exiting this level.

While you wait for the return of play, enjoy this timeless video from the 2012 WSOP Main Event where Mickey Doft races to count "the stack."

Player	Chips	Progress
Bruno Politano	5,271,000 21,000	21,000

Griffin Benger	3,937,000 17,000	17,000
Kyle Keranen	3,674,000 -41,000	-41,000
Leif Force	3,567,000 312,000	312,000

Andoni Larrabe	3,376,000 476,000	476,000
Clayton Hamm	3,296,000 61,000	61,000
Scott Palmer	3,177,000 -698,000	-698,000
Tony Ruberto	3,050,000 430,000	430,000
Mark Newhouse	3,042,000 612,000	612,000

Dan Smith	2,854,000 -146,000	-146,000

Martin Jacobson	2,721,000 -19,000	-19,000

Matt Waxman	2,655,000 -20,000	-20,000

Jason Johnson	2,581,000 -119,000	-119,000
Brian Hastings	2,569,000 -891,000	-891,000

Clayton Maguire	2,560,000 -40,000	-40,000

Isaac Baron	2,468,000 -62,000	-62,000

Anh Van Nguyen	2,380,000 690,000	690,000
Peter Placey	2,366,000 106,000	106,000
Matthew Haugen	2,360,000 365,000	365,000
Dan Sindelar	2,246,000 -754,000	-754,000
Mikiyo Aoki	2,235,000 -325,000	-325,000
Craig McCorkell	2,200,000 238,000	238,000

Jeffrey Loiacono	2,184,000 684,000	684,000
Robert Park	2,153,000 103,000	103,000
Andrey Zaichenko	2,136,000 6,000	6,000

Dong Guo	2,050,000 940,000	940,000
Curtis Rystadt	2,046,000 -272,000	-272,000
Vladimir Bozinovic	2,001,000 -19,000	-19,000
Luis Velador	1,998,000 214,000	214,000

Michael Kamran	1,922,000 222,000	222,000
Aaron Kaiser	1,893,000 711,000	711,000
Matthew Mcewan	1,879,000 -18,000	-18,000
Marc Tschirch	1,871,000 -69,000	-69,000
Zachary Hirst	1,845,000 -75,000	-75,000
Ryan Fair	1,845,000 489,000	489,000
Chris Johnson	1,825,000 65,000	65,000
Christopher Shaw	1,804,000 -247,000	-247,000
Nicholas Nardello	1,781,000 -899,000	-899,000
Lee Taylor	1,776,000 151,000	151,000
Vadzim Markushevski	1,746,000 136,000	136,000
Kane Kalas	1,715,000 125,000	125,000
Trevor Martin	1,684,000 9,000	9,000
Bryan Devonshire	1,672,000 732,000	732,000
Anthony Diotte	1,660,000 -80,000	-80,000
Farid Jattin	1,636,000 206,000	206,000
Iaron Lightbourne	1,620,000 200,000	200,000
Jason Weber	1,617,000 -63,000	-63,000
Matthew Sedgeman	1,605,000 515,000	515,000
Samuel Wasserman	1,580,000 860,000	860,000
Pakinai Lisawad	1,580,000 -340,000	-340,000
Christopher Greaves	1,545,000 251,000	251,000
Hunter Cichy	1,540,000 830,000	830,000

Luis Assuncao	1,501,000 866,000	866,000
Mukul Pahuja	1,457,000 307,000	307,000
Michael Finstein	1,436,000 -634,000	-634,000
Chanracy Khun	1,430,000 -795,000	-795,000

Vitaly Lunkin	1,421,000 466,000	466,000

Nathan Goldstein	1,420,000 -70,000	-70,000
Shahen Martirosian	1,405,000 305,000	305,000
Pfizer Jordan	1,402,000 -648,000	-648,000
Joshua Atkinson	1,400,000 1,400,000	1,400,000
Stuart Rutter	1,346,000 180,000	180,000
Jorryt van Hoof	1,331,000 1,042,000	1,042,000
Michael Aron	1,317,000 318,000	318,000
Donys Angelli	1,308,000 28,000	28,000
Steven Bennett	1,305,000 903,000	903,000
Henrik Hecklen	1,300,000 -650,000	-650,000
Ali Eslami	1,300,000 -275,000	-275,000

William Tonking	1,275,000 235,000	235,000
Maria Ho	1,270,000 480,000	480,000
Grayson Nichols	1,234,000 1,234,000	1,234,000
Michael Stembera	1,233,000 -182,000	-182,000
Mats Karlsson	1,197,000 -43,000	-43,000
Quentin Siffledeen	1,189,000 -531,000	-531,000
Kyung Cha	1,189,000 28,000	28,000
Daniel Wilson	1,187,000 377,000	377,000
Greg Himmelbrand	1,170,000 -105,000	-105,000
Brian Roberts	1,166,000 -99,000	-99,000
Maximilian Senft	1,146,000 71,000	71,000
Michael McGonigle	1,130,000 373,000	373,000
Bryan Shay	1,128,000 -122,000	-122,000
Nick Yunis	1,094,000 -619,000	-619,000
Oscar Kemps	1,085,000 682,000	682,000
Kyle Bowker	1,085,000 -305,000	-305,000

Sean Dempsey	1,067,000 -63,000	-63,000

Thomas Sarra Jr	1,050,000 126,000	126,000
Yorane Kerignard	1,026,000 -49,000	-49,000
Zachary Walker	1,021,000 201,000	201,000
Gabriel Paul	1,018,000 -250,000	-250,000
Peter Neff	995,000 240,000	240,000
Timur Margolin	992,000 303,000	303,000

Felix Stephensen	972,000 -478,000	-478,000
Jason Leifer	956,000 211,000	211,000
Daniel Miles	952,000 172,000	172,000
Gianfranco Visalli	929,000 -671,000	-671,000
Jonathan Aguiar	928,000 13,000	13,000

Soon Hwang	927,000 72,000	72,000
Eddy Sabat	919,000 19,000	19,000
Marius Pospiech	888,000 -842,000	-842,000
Adam Lamphere	883,000 -332,000	-332,000
Danny Yousefzadeh	863,000 -77,000	-77,000
Thomas Applegate	862,000 357,000	357,000
Benjamin Gold	852,000 -129,000	-129,000
Gal Erlichman	839,000 -226,000	-226,000
Nathan Fletcher	825,000 -445,000	-445,000
Alex Outhred	803,000 68,000	68,000
Alexios Zervos	797,000 -113,000	-113,000
Jack Schanbacher	793,000 -507,000	-507,000
Robert Campbell	783,000

Billy Pappas	760,000 -304,000	-304,000

Chase Fredensburg	750,000 73,000	73,000
Bradley Lussier	718,000 -682,000	-682,000
David Yingling	685,000 163,000	163,000
Christopher Sly	664,000 4,000	4,000
Chris Odle	661,000 -6,000	-6,000
Hieu Nguyen	656,000 656,000	656,000
William Cole	637,000 57,000	57,000
Michael Palo	620,000 279,000	279,000
Benjamin Koziol	609,000 -326,000	-326,000
Manig Loeser	589,000 -791,000	-791,000

Justin Swilling	586,000 -534,000	-534,000
Rob Vannucci	584,000 84,000	84,000
Joas Mudde	561,000 61,000	61,000
Scott Mahin	560,000 221,000	221,000
Tom Midena	549,000 -351,000	-351,000
Vladimir Shchemelev	543,000 -617,000	-617,000
Marcia Kuntz	530,000 -700,000	-700,000
Jeffrey Chang	510,000 -612,000	-612,000
Garrett Greer	503,000 -167,000	-167,000
Emil Olsson	466,000 -44,000	-44,000
Joe Curcio	461,000
Paul Senter	455,000 -145,000	-145,000
Huy Nguyen	430,000 24,000	24,000
Todd Rebello	429,000 -39,000	-39,000
Raymond Ezzie	426,000 -54,000	-54,000
Chad Eveslage	381,000 81,000	81,000

Vincent Maglio	358,000 -12,000	-12,000
Timothy Reilly	337,000 -46,000	-46,000
Pierre Canali	335,000 -40,000	-40,000
Adam Coats	319,000 -21,000	-21,000
Jason Deutsch	314,000 -44,000	-44,000
Simon Charette	285,000 84,000	84,000

Byron Kaverman	283,000 -32,000	-32,000

Dean Baranowski	274,000 -180,000	-180,000
Casey Stewart	259,000 -148,000	-148,000
Michael Arage	238,000 -305,000	-305,000
Darlene Lee	190,000 -167,000	-167,000
David Tuthill	75,000 -345,000	-345,000