$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21: 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  64 of 1,655

Another round of results as the field hits the last eight tables and a pay jump to $1,350. Tampa favorite Tony March finished in 78th place which means more money for his Pay It Backward Foundation.

65th: Hai Ly – $1,190
66th: Ronald Miller – $1,190
67th: Drew Dodge – $1,190
68th: Eli Kiwan – $1,190
69th: Ye Yao – $1,190
70th: James Ciesluk – $1,190
71st: Chaim Einbinder – $1,190
72nd: Michael Murphy – $1,190

73rd: Brandon Wilkins – $1,060
74th: Felipe Koury – $1,060
75th: Stanford Gulley Jr – $1,060
76th: Michael Willey – $1,060
77th: Lucas Tae – $1,060
78th: Tony March – $1,060
79th: Clyde Maliauka – $1,060
80th: Mohamad Al Halwani – $1,060

81st: Joshua Maskell – $950
82nd: Sanjib Acharya – $950
83rd: Anthony Berouty – $950
84th: Christopher Coller – $950
85th: Blaize Mee – $950
86th: Brian Machalo – $950
87th: Cuinn Griffin – $950
88th: Ryan Hogan – $950

89th: Jakob Parks – $860
90th: Michael Hunsucker – $860
91st: Ryan Wyant – $860
92nd: Dorian Rios Pavon – $860
93rd: Jahann Bardia – $860
94th: David Mauradian – $860
95th: Julian Roldan – $860
96th: William Davis – $860
97th: Michael Halprin – $860
98th: Rohit Palla – $860
99th: Robert Panetta – $860
100th: Kim McCann – $860

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  72 of 1,655

We missed the preflop action but it ended up with Brandon Wilkins and Victor Nissim all in with similar stacks.

Nissim:
Wilkins:

It was a fair fight with Wilkins needing to improve to take the pot. The flop changed nothing but the turn made it more interesting. Wilkins had five river outs for the win and nine spades in the deck for a chop.

He missed the river and the dealer counted down the stacks. Both had exactly 735,000 and Wilkins was eliminated in 73rd place.

Victor Nissim – 1,520,000 (76 bb)
Brandon Wilkins – Eliminated in 73rd Place ($1,060)

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  75 of 1,655

Shortly after the first break, we noticed Lucas Tae standing up at his seat with no chips in front. It was a bit shocking since he was among the leaders but was now waiting for a payout ticket.

We didn’t see the hand but most of his chips seem to be now sitting in front of Sandeep Kumar, our new chip leader with a huge 2,730,000 in his stack.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  80 of 1,655

Steven Sinclair was been in the same seat all day and running well. He began Day 2 with 721,000 but now leads the field with 1,940,000. Randy Raji (1,425,000), Lucas Tae (1,420,000), Tahsin Kelekci (1,225,000) and Randy Wadsworth (1,100,000) are the closest to chasing him down.

Blinds are up to 10.000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante and the average stack is about 630,000 (31 bb). Levels now last 40 minutes each until we have a winner.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19: 8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 ante
Players Remaining:  90 of 1,655

Players are on their second break of the day as tournament staff pull the 1K chips out of play and put some 100K chips are introduced. Blind levels will increase to 40 minutes for the remainder of the tournament.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19: 8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 ante
Players Remaining:  100 of 1,655

They are flying to the payout desk after the first break, quickly down to double digits remaining and the bigger money on the horizon. Karl Manouchakian was among the recent results, extending his lead as our all-time cash leader with his 117th payout.

101st: Dan Clemente – $860
102nd: John Ryan – $860
103rd: Eugene Kirtley – $860
104th: Craig Nix – $860
105th: Surinda Maraj – $780
106th: Justin Snavely – $780
107th: Jaya Anush Malapati – $780
108th: Kumar Kantamaneni – $780
109th: Adam Cooper – $780
110th: Roland Willis – $780
111th: Jenn Haselton – $780
112th: Daniel Schmidt – $780
113th: Jimmy Le – $780
114th: Tarun Gulati – $780
115th: Aaron Speer – $780
116th: John Ridinger – $780
117th: Megan Rajablu – $780
118th: Jeffrey Greenstein – $780
119th: Jerome Leonardo – $780
120th: Davin Cradic – $780

121st: Richard Pressler – $720
122nd: Ronald Holt – $720
123rd: Christopher Picciano – $720
124th: Steve Dees – $720
125th: Daniel Duffy – $720
126th: Alexander Orlov – $720
127th: Davide Zella – $720
128th: Evan Pantano – $720
129th: Karl Manouchakian – $720
130th: Victor Hernandez – $720
131st: David DiBernardi – $720
132nd: Nicholas Russell – $720
133rd: Corey Zedo – $720
134th: Graham Gibson – $720
135th: Cary Alter – $720
136th: Charles Kahrs – $720

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  114 of 1,655

Action folded to Aaron Speer in the cutoff and he moved all in for 53,000. Tahsin Kelekci called on the button and the blinds folded.

Kelekci:
Speer:

Speer was ahead for his double but needed to fade Kelekci’s live suited cards. The flop and turn were safe for Speer but Kekekci paired his eight on the river to send Speer out while he climbed over one million in his stack.

Tahsin Kelekci – 1,109,000 (92 bb)
Aaron Speer – Eliminated in 115th Place ($780)

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  136 of 1,655

The Event 1 field is down to 136 players and they reached another pay jump with everyone now guaranteed at least $720.

137th: Mhd Al Kemeh – $670
138th: Matthew Leecy – $670
139th: Alexandra Starr – $670
140th: John Devine – $670
141st: Daniel Kusnerak – $670
142nd: Saif Keshwani – $670
143rd: Eran Golan – $670
144th: frank Markim – $670
145th: Tony Hatley – $670
146th: Gerard Day – $670
147th: Khanh Truong – $670
148th: Harry Binda Jr – $670
149th: Nathan Seifert – $670
150th: Custis King – $670
151st: Herbert Nairn – $670
152nd: Chad Kitchen – $670

153rd: Rowland Evans – $630
154th: Woodrow Pass – $630
155th: Zachary Booth – $630
156th: John Kennedy – $630
157th: Anthony Pathman – $630
158th: Sudharshan Karanam – $630
159th: Adam Barclay – $630
160th: Vincent Baldassarre – $630
161st: Sheik Mohamed – $630
162nd: Michael Francisco – $630
163rd: Lacey Cannon – $630
164th: Naresh Parwani – $630
165th: Donald Gibbs – $630
166th: Reese Combs – $630
167th: Tyler Pruitt – $630
168th: Fred Paradis – $630

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  145 of 1,655

Victor Nissim was among the returning chip leaders and now he’s the big stack it the room with 145 players remaining. We have three players knocking on the door to cross over one million; Nissim leads with 963,000 followed by Randy Raji with 945,000 and David Howard with 915,000.

They will play three more levels, take a break while the orange chips come out of play, and levels increase to 40 minutes when they return.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 16: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  145 of 1,655

After two levels and change, players were sent on the first 15-minute break of the day with 145 remaining and the payouts climbing.

We’ll take a walk among the table and see who’s made moves early in the day.