Pedro Neves Leads Event #38: $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold'em Final Seven

In just a few hours, a new player will be crowned as the 2024 World Series of Poker Event #38: $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold'em champion, winning their first-ever gold bracelet and the $1,098,220 first-place prize. But who will this player be?

Out of a massive field of 8,703 entrants, only seven players successfully reached the final table and then qualified for Day 5. Among these players, the odds-on favorite is Portugal's Pedro Neves. After winning a 90,000,000 chip pot when there were 19 players left, his stack kept growing, and he secured a massive chip lead of 172,200,000. He is followed by Aaron Johnson with 101,000,000, while all the other players have, at most, half of Johnson's stack.

Final Seven Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Pedro Neves	Portugal	172,200,000	86
2	Aaron Johnson (MN)	United States	101,000,000	51
3	Brian Roff	United States	50,800,000	25
4	Jerry Maher	United States	29,800,000	15
5	Tim Reilly	United States	28,900,000	14
6	Jose Carlos Brito	Portugal	27,000,000	14
7	Guangming Li	United States	25,500,000	13

Brian Roff will be back at the final table with 50,800,000. Meanwhile, Jerry Maher (29,800,000), Tim Reilly (28,900,000), Jose Carlos Brito (27,000,000), and Guangming Li (25,500,000) will all return with approximately 15 big blinds each.

Day 5 action will begin at 12 p.m. local time at Level 40, with blinds at 1,000,000/2,000,000 with a 2,000,000 big blind ante. The level will resume with 37 minutes and 25 seconds remaining. Levels will be 60 minutes in length, with 15-minute breaks every two levels, and a dinner break to be determined.