$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
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Level 18:  6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining:  40 of 625

With the elimination of Joe Jimenez in 41st place, the Championship reached the last five tables of the tournament. Everyone remaining is guaranteed at least $4,710 and the average stacks is up to 52 big blinds.

Settle in.

41st: Joe Jimenez – $4,150
42nd: Harvey Vandeven – $4,150
43rd: Frank Weigel – $4,150
44th: Kyle Dilschneider – $4,150
45th: Elliott Peterman – $4,150
46th: Bill Burdick – $4,150
47th: Lynn Bowersox – $4,150
48th: Chris Perry – $4,150

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18:  6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining:  41 of 625

Jake Ferro checked his cards, checked his stack, and moved all in for 73,000 from early position. It folded to Jordan Degrenier and he asked “Do you want a sweat?”

Ferro laughed and Degrenier slow-peeled one card at a time and called.

Ferro:
Degrenier:

Ferro was in great shape for the double and it got even better when made a set of sixes on the . The turn and river finished the board and Ferro’s boat shipped him a double.

Jake Ferro – 164,000 (14 bb)
Jordan Degrenier – 132,000 (11 bb)

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18:  6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining:  42 of 625

Thad McNulty quietly built himself a big castle of chips, stacking up to 1,678,000 and looks like the leader with a lot of fluid chip movement at the moment. He is one of three players to take advantage of the best-stack-forward format and making the most of it.

Blinds are up to 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante and the average stack is about 595,000 (50 bb). They aren’t going anywhere fast and the dinner break comes after this level.

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
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Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  48 of 625

The Championship quickly dropped down to the last six tables with 48 players remaining and everyone has at least $4,150 locked up.

49th: Nathan Cho – $3,720
50th: Richar Kaplan – $3,720
51st: Joseph Orsino – $3,720
52nd: Mohamad Al Halwani – $3,720
53rd: Jack Sumner – $3,720
54th: Marcus Gurley – $3,720
55th: James McCarty – $3,720
56th: Steven Carswell – $3,720

57th: Jerry Silva – $3,380
58th: Khanh Truong – $3,380
59th: Julio Delgado – $3,380
60th: Sean Heywood – $3,380
61st: Dan Clemente – $3,380
62nd: Marcelo Lanas – $3,380
63rd: John Tamkutonis – $3,380
64th: Alexander Orlov – $3,380

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  56 of 625

The second break wrapped and cards were put back in the air with Wagner Wysotchanski in the lead holding 1,400,000. A lot are getting closer to him with Ryan Brown, though he took a small dip after the break when he lost a race against Joseph Orsino.

Action is scheduled to play two more levels before the field takes a 60-minute dinner break.

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
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Level 16:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  64 of 625

As the remaining players are about ready to take another break, here’s a look at the recent results. Bryce McVay and Alexander Orlove made the money but were eliminated to leave Justin Zaki as the only member of last year’s TPC Championship final table still in the game.

65th: Filipp Khavin – $3,120
66th: David Ortolano – $3,120
67th: Alexander Kimpel – $3,120
68th: James Courtney – $3,120
69th: Andrew Brannon – $3,120
70th: Aaron Thivynathan – $3,120
71st: Joseph Parrish – $3,120
72nd: Bryce McVay – $3,120

73rd: Justin Snavley – $2,940
74th: Kenneth Adams – $2,940
75th: Ken Fishman – $2,940
76th: Robert Kennedy III – $2,940
77th: Chrissy Holubeck – $2,940
78th: Ya Yun Liu – $2,940
79th: Louis Perez – $2,940

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 16:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  64 of 625

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
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Level 15:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  80 of 625

With 80 players remaining and 79 getting paid, tournament staff paused the clock to begin action on the money bubble. They will continue playing hand-for-hand until one more player is eliminated with two minutes coming off the clock for each hand.

If the clock clicks over to the next level, blinds will increase.

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
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Level 15:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  83 of 625

With the clock ticking down on Level 15, the Championship is very close to hitting the money bubble. When the field reaches 80 players, tournament staff will break a table and go into hand-for-hand mode until one player is eliminated.

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 15:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  90 of 625

Championship players were sent on a 15-minute break after Level 14 as tournament staff pulled the purple chips out of play and introduced the 25K chips.

A walk among the tables showed the same leaders at the start of the day were still up there with Mike Rossi joining them. Michael Dalberth was tops with 973,000 and some big stacks trying to chase him down.

Michael Dalbreth – 973,000 (162 bb)
Wagner Wysotchanski – 910,000 (152 bb)
Henry Nguyen – 705,000 (118 bb)
Alexander Kimpel – 699,000 (117 bb)
Mike Rossi – 670,000 (112 bb)
Jack Sumner – 668,000 (111 bb)

Blinds are up to 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante and the average stack is about 278,000 (46 bb) with 90 players remaining.