$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  24 of 936

Former big stacks Graham Wells and Chris Gaskins fell short, and the three-table redraw was triggered with 24 players remaining.

25th: Graham Wells – $970
26th: Robert Breznay – $970
27th: Chris Gaskin – $970
28th: John Phillips – $970
29th: Andrew Pettenger – $970
30th: Tamas Hartman – $970
31st: Jerry Silva – $970
32nd: John Feeney – $970

1st: $32,100 + PPO Trophy
2nd: $21,310
3rd: $15,730
4th: $11,740
5th: $8,850
6th: $6,740
7th: $5,200
8th: $4,050
9th-10th: $3,190
11th-12th: $2,540
13th-14th: $2,050
15th-16th: $1,670
17th-20th: $1,380
21st-24th: $1,150

$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  29 of 936

Armando Figueroa and Jerry Silva both had very nice stacks and the previous break but now only one is around. They both mixed it up in a pot that resulted in Silva going out on the 31st, and Figueroa castled up to 1,740,000 as we moved into the late parts of the tournament.

$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  32 of 936

Right as they were heading into a new level, Conner Reynolds was eliminated in 33rd place to drop the field to the last four tables. Eight more eliminations and tournament staff will redraw seats at the last three tables.

33rd: Conner Reynolds – $830
34th: Conrad Flores – $830
35th: Thomas Robertson – $830
36th: Itzak Shulmaister – $830
37th: Don Linsky – $830
38th: Frank Alcock – $830
39th: Julio Lopez Galvez – $830
40th: Frank Weigel – $830

1st: $32,100 + PPO Trophy
2nd: $21,310
3rd: $15,730
4th: $11,740
5th: $8,850
6th: $6,740
7th: $5,200
8th: $4,050
9th-10th: $3,190
11th-12th: $2,540
13th-14th: $2,050
15th-16th: $1,670
17th-20th: $1,380
21st-24th: $1,150
25th-32nd: $970

$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  40 of 936

On the last hand before the break (about 30 seconds into it), Christy Pham was eliminated in 41st place. Another table was broken up when they returned from break to leave 40 in the game.

41st: Christy Pham – $720
42nd: Anthony Squicciarini – $720
43rd: Yuriy Kim – $720
44th: Tony March – $720
45th: Shane Melert – $720
46th: Chad Kitchen – $720
47th: Jason Lessinger – $720
48th: Nicholas Carter – $720

$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  40 of 936

The break ended and players returned to action with a new leader. Max Petrov has the biggest stack among the last five tables with 1,275,000. Graham Wells is close with 1,145,000 and John Turner is teasing a million with 950,000.

Blinds are up to 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante and the average stack is about 585,000. They will play four more 30-minute levels before they increase to 40 minutes for the rest of the tournament.

$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 ante
Players Remaining:  41 of 936

The next break is upon the field as they leave the tables for 15 minutes while the 1K chips are taken out of play. They will return to play four more 30-minute levels before they increase to 40 at the start of Level 24.

$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 ante
Players Remaining:  48 of 936

49th: Carlos Loving – $630
50th: Sravan Kolla – $630
51st: Mitchell Bosch – $630
52nd: Robert Fiore – $630
53rd: Barbara Cardin – $630
54th: Paul Stanechewski – $630
55th: Guy Pitz – $630
56th: Riley Price – $630

$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  57th of 936

There really is no slowdown at this point in the tournament. Players are quickly busting out and collecting a payout slip, and many are joining the $400 one-day event on the other side of the room (late registration is available until 4:30 p.m.).

57th: Saul Fabian Andrade – $560
58th: David Atrubin – $560
59th: James Gavin – $560
60th: Alexander Grassia – $560
61st: Zip Kichman – $560
62nd: Joshua Nicholson – $560
63rd: Anthony Pellegrini – $560
64th: Luis Medina – $560

$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  64th of 936

65th: Hristos Tsironis – $510
66th: Ramses Rosa – $510
67th: Jeffrey Russell – $510
68th: Eric Nuss – $510
69th: Christopher Crane – $510
70th: Marshall Morris – $510
71st: James Sutherland – $510
72nd: William Brown – $510

$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  71 of 936

Action is back underway after the break with 71 players remaining and one of them with more than one million their stack. Chris Gaskins began the day with the chip lead and extended it to sit with 1,226,000.

He is the only player in seven-digit territory, with John Turner (905,000) and Graham Well (882,000) being the closest to catching him.

Remaining payouts:

1st: $32,100 + PPO Trophy
2nd: $21,310
3rd: $15,730
4th: $11,740
5th: $8,850
6th: $6,740
7th: $5,200
8th: $4,050
9th-10th: $3,190
11th-12th: $2,540
13th-14th: $2,050
15th-16th: $1,670
17th-20th: $1,380
21st-24th: $1,150
25th-32nd: $970
33rd-40th: $830
41st-48th: $720
49th-56th: $630
57th-64th: $560
65th-71st: $510