"Rvrruner" Takes Down WSOP.com Bracelet Event #2: $500 Monster Stack ($64,590)

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Sep 12, 2022 2 min read

Event #2: $500 Monster Stack on WSOP.com came to an end after 11 hours of play and "Rvrruner" is the champion. The second tournament of the opening weekend kicked off a series of 33 events that will take place over the next five weeks for players in Nevada and New Jersey.

The event drew a field of 508 players that tossed in an additional 214 rebuys to generate a prize pool of $324,900. "Rvrruner" defeated Aditya "Roronoa" Sadhu in heads-up play to win $64,590 and the WSOP gold bracelet.

Lily "theslimshady" Newhouse finished in third, while Guy "PhilLaak" Dunlap and Andrew "KittyXoXo" Gonder round out the top five.

Event #2: $500 Monster Stack Final Table Results

Final Table Action

Several bracelet winners made a run to the money stages but bowed out before the final table, including Nick "CashUsKlay" Schulman, Robert "NeverEven" Peacock, Giuseppe "Pantalette" Pantaleo, Brett "Metanemesis" Apter, and Ian "APokerJoker2" Steinman.

It was two-time bracelet winner and 2019 WSOP Player of the Year Campbell that hit the rail first to kick off the final table. Campbell got it in with pocket aces, but eventual winner "Rvrruner" cracked them with a straight that was made from a five-two starting hand. Close behind in eighth was "owned", who was picked off by "Rvrruner" after an untimely bluff.

Evan "RaiseOrDie" Pantano was out in seventh after he picked up pocket aces and jammed after the flop. Dunlap called with a flush draw and improved to crack the best hand. David "dbaba" Baba was eliminated soon after in sixth when he shoved with eights but ran into the pocket nines of “Rvrruner”.

Dunlap continued to cause damage at the final table with the elimination of Gonder in fifth place. Gonder got it all in with ace-two, but Dunlap was waiting with ace-jack to send the tournament to four-handed play. However, Dunlap was next to go when his king-jack couldn’t improve against the ace-eight of Sadhu.

Three-handed play was over quickly when Newhouse got it in with king-seven from the short stack, but “Rvrruner” had pocket aces to eliminate her in third place.

Heads-up play started out with both Sadhu and "Rvrruner" relatively equal in stack size, but "Rvrruner" won a series of early hands to pull away. Sadhu theatened to bring the match back to even for a brief moment, but he fell back just as soon and "Rvrruner" kept the pressure on. The big moment came when Sadhu shoved with pocket fives and "Rvrruner" made a flush on the river to seal the victory.

Be sure to keep it with PokerNews throughout the week for more coverage of the WSOP.com bracelet series.

Las Vegas-based PokerNews Live Reporting Executive, originally from Chicago, IL

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