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Structure Sheet | Payouts
Level 23: Blinds 15,000/25,000/25,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 1,415
Players Remaining: 32
Average Stack: 1,762,000
Daniel Wach has taken out Marsel Backa, already wounded in a previous hand with Ian O’Hara. Marsel is 37th.
Just before, an interesting spot.
A.J. Kelsall opens to 55,000, Sarmiento calls, and Gang puts in the 3b squeeze to 140,000.
Kelsall then 4bets to 475,000 with about 800,000 back. Now Sarmiento back raises all in to over a million, leaving 600,000 to call.
Tough spot – so much out there to win, but too much to risk without it, apparently.
Dylan snap mucks it, sending A.J. into the tank. He evaluates for physical tells, and Steven says he’s not shaking.
Somehow, Kelsall makes the hero fold, leaving himself with that 800,000. The non-showdown pot move Steven to 1,800,000.
Meanwhile, a spasm of bustouts keep the tables breaking and reordering. Brendon O’Neil, Mathew Kolenda, Brian O’Donoghue, and Richard Bai are all out within five minutes of each other.
The sudden drop of players makes the the plan to play to 24 tonight more viable – 32 left.
Brandon Hall, who took out Kolenda with a cooler 
over 
, has 4,000,000 now.
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Structure Sheet | Payouts
Level 23: Blinds 15,000/25,000/25,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 1,415
Players Remaining: 38
Average Stack: 1,489.000
In an interesting hand versus an apparently sticky and troublesome Nikolai Markov, Lucas Braga has gotten out the danger zone.
Lucas and his antagonist, Nicolai Markov, right.
With less than 15 blinds Lucas decided not to open shove, instead min raising from LP. He picked up Nikolai as well as the BB, who would end up folding on the flop.
Lucas down bet a 
board, then 100,000 on a and 300,000 on the river . Snap call by , but Lucas had three queens.
Breathing and just under a million now. Nikolai has 650,000.
Meanwhile Oboodi has gone out, jamming 7 bigs with 
into Dien Le’s easy call with 
. Dien takes it down and Oboodi has 39th place money.
Meanwhile, Brandon Shane has kept his 3,250,000 stack remarkably unchanged, and seems to have the lead at the moment.
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Level 23: Blinds 15,000/25,000/25,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 1,415
Players Remaining: 39
Average Stack: 1,451,279
First Adam Hendrix on table 4 took out Jared Grenier in an odd flip, Adam’s threes against an 
. Jared is 43rd.
Then, at the same table, another shortie is gone. A.J. Kellsall woke up with a premium, , and dispatched Wenhao Ying’s drowining stack, Ying’s unable to find the same magic Steven Sarmiento found against Himmelbrand.
Night time for both Jared, left, and Ying. Both will take $15,480.
Meanwhile, in 42nd, Matt Kolibas couldn’t make 
work against the jacks of Richard Bai.
40th is a new pay jump, and it is Shankar Pillai for $18,087.
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End of Level 22: Blinds 10,000/20,000/20,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 1,415
Players Remaining: 43
Average Stack: 1,316,279
Nick Schwarmann is active and has pushed past 4,000,000 briefly, but lays down on the turn to Liberta.
Soon after he is back to 3,800,000
Liberta pitches it after Nick finally lets go.
“You folded a pair?” Joseph asked, incredulously. You haven’t folded a pair all day. Nice of you.”
Liberata moves back to 1,700,000, still less than he started with today.
SB vs BB: Dylan Gang shows down queen high for the win against Melad Marji. Both are mid-stacked.
Then, back to table one and Nick Schwarmann, taking on Ryan Hagerty as break came on. After Hagerty calls a rather large bet of 250,000 on the end, Nick flashes his cards and mucks, while Hagerty decides not to show. Some dialogue, and Ryan appears to show a straight on a flush runout.
Ryan moves to 2,400,000 as Nick falls back to 3,000,000 and out of the lead.
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Returning to Level 22: Blinds 10,000/20,000/20,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 1,415
Players Remaining: 43
Average Stack: 1,316,279
“You need blades. You need blades!” Greg Himmelbrand told Steven Sarmiento, turning over .
Steven didn’t have the aces, but was good enough, with a matching ace on the flop, taking out Himmelbrand’ in preflop action. 45th and another $15,480 for Greg.
Disappointment on Himmelbrand as the ace is right in the window. Brutal way to go.
Kevin Mason is out, as well, down to stub, done in by Ian O’Hara on table 6 for 46th.
Then, a moment later, Adnan Mohammed, crippled by Cannon, is done in 44th for the same payout as Greg and Kevin.
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Level 22: Blinds 10,000/20,000/20,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 1,415
Players Remaining: 46
Average Stack: 1,230,000
Multiple pots in the first half of the level have given Nick 3,800,000 to work with.
Meanwhile, former leader Brandon Shane has not moved in stack, still just over 3,100,000, on table 6. Kevin Mason is on his right.
Meanwhile, Mike Cannon has doubled through Adnan, bringing them both just under 20 bigs, in a standard flip.
However, Stephen Deutsch is out in 47th, making a last stand with king-rag and losing to Andrew Crookston’s pocket sixes.
Six tables now.
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Returning to Level 22: Blinds 10,000/20,000/20,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 1,415
Players Remaining: 47
Average Stack: 1.204 million
Olivier doubles through Raul Gallego, AKs over AQo right away, to 1 million.
Both Richard Bai and Elilton Gouveia tanked before folding, Elilton claiming tens – which would have won on the low runout.
Very short, Volpe is in the middle immediately and takes 52nd for $13,398.
On table 6, Brendon O’Neil takes out Rafael Ferreira, hitting an ace on 
.
Quick eliminations coming back from dinner:
Donovan (51st), Matt Waxman, Ferreira, Phillip Hui (48th) is out as well, as we hit the payjump to $15,480.
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Structure Sheet
End of Level 15: Blinds 2000/4000/4000
Entrants: 890
Remaining: 180
Average Chips: 123,000
Vanna Nuon is off his peak, but at about 595,000 still appears to be the largest stack.
We now take the dinner break.
JJ is a great hand, after all: Mark Siegrist fades 66 and AQ for a needed triple well past the average stack. Here he collects the chips before his table is broken.
Gary Kosakowski is well disguised today. Here he gets a light EP shove through, flashing the 4s after the BB can’t call with 72o.
A good series so far for Eric and Kat – 9 cashes between them.
We return at 8:35 pm.
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Structure Sheet
End of Level 14: Blinds 1500/3000/3000
Entrants: 890
Remaining: 220
Average Chips: 101,000
The breakneck pace of bust outs has suddenly slowed, and with it, the dramatic rise of stacks.
However, a more clear chip leader has emerged, more the moment, here in level 14.
Vanna Nuon has moved up to 650,000.
Dinner break will be after this coming level 15.
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Structure Sheet
End of Level 13: Blinds 1200/2500/2500
Entrants: 890
Remaining: 240
Average Chips: 92,000
Harry “The Winner” Ohannesian has the baton for now, with over 460,000.
Chips are flying as the levels pass by. We can expect a number of new big stacks by the announced Dinner break of around 7;30 PM.