$2,500 SPS Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $792,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 18:  6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining:  19 of 352

$2,500 SPS Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $792,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 18:  6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining:  20 of 352

Table 11
Seat 1: TK Miles – 174,000 (15 bb)
Seat 2: Chad Kitchen – 175,000 (15 bb)
Seat 3: Rusty Wadsworth – 1,751,000 (146 bb)
Seat 4: Aaron Speer – 397,000 (33 bb)
Seat 5: Harvey Vandeven – 1,101,000 (92 bb)
Seat 7: Stephen Song – 1,169,000 (97 bb)
Seat 8: Bobby Kennedy – 650,000 (54 bb)

Table 21
Seat 1: Filipp Khavin – 628,000 (52 bb)
Seat 2: Sadek El Hakim – 176,000 (15 bb)
Seat 3: Brian Ray – 433,000 (36 bb)
Seat 5: Nick Raio – 323,000 (27 bb)
Seat 6: Nakim Adesio – 1,020,000 (85 bb)
Seat 7: Felipe Koury – 362,000 (30 bb)

Table 22
Seat 1: John Pointer – 519,000 (43 bb)
Seat 2: Peter Vitantonio – 1,003,000 (84 bb)
Seat 3: Thien Nguyen – 503,000 (42 bb)
Seat 4: Ashraf Chehata – 1,516,000 (126 bb)
Seat 5: Phi Nguyen – 454,000 (38 bb)
Seat 6: Justin Zaki – 1,135,000 (95 bb)
Seat 7: Mark Zhang – 577,000 (48 bb)

1st: $164,430 + SPS Trophy
2nd: $109,340
3rd: $80,260
4th: $59,550
5th: $44,650
6th: $33,820
7th: $25,890
8th: $20,020
9th-10th: $15,640
11th-12th: $12,630
13th-14th: $10,360
15th-16th: $8,650
17th-20th: $7,360
21st: Daniel Kasper – $6,370
22nd: Fred Paradis – $6,370
23rd: Jamie “Beard” Smith – $6,370
24th: Jerry Silva – $6,370

$2,500 SPS Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $792,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  24 of 352

The SPS Championship is down to its last three tables with 24 players remaining and $6,370 locked up.

25th: Spencer Sweisford – $5,630
26th: Carlos Vizoso – $5,630
27th: Paul Siem – $5,630
28th: Matthew Baker – $5,630
29th: Manny Minaya – $5,630
30th: RJ Sullivan – $5,630
31st: John Kamis – $5,630
32nd: Mike Ahmad – $5,630

Remaining payouts:

1st: $164,430 + SPS Trophy
2nd: $109,340
3rd: $80,260
4th: $59,550
5th: $44,650
6th: $33,820
7th: $25,890
8th: $20,020
9th-10th: $15,640
11th-12th: $12,630
13th-14th: $10,360
15th-16th: $8,650
17th-20th: $7,360
21st-24th: $6,370

$2,500 SPS Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $792,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 16:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  32 of 352

Not long after the third break, we lost a handful of players to drop the field down to the last four tables of the tournament. The remaining caught a pay jump to $5,630 with the really big money in the future.

33rd: Alan Hamza – $5,090
34th: Marsha Wolak – $5,090
35th: Christopher Holland – $5,090
36th: Carlos Evangelista – $5,090
37th: Nathan Geier – $5,090
38th: Brian Powell – $5,090
39th: Wayne Leonard – $5,090
40th: Ryan Hogan – $5,090

$2,500 SPS Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $792,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 16:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  35 of 352

The third break ended, players returned to their seats, and we have a new leader in the Championship. Rusty Wadsworth sits atop the counts with 1,247,000 with Stephen Song’s 1,145,000 the only other stack over one million.

Ashraf Chehata, Justin Zaki, and Jamie “Beard” Smith round out the top five as we get deeper into the day.

They are scheduled for three more levels today, with one last break, before survivors bag for the final day.

Rusty Wadsworth – 1,247,000 (156 bb)
Stephen Song – 1,145,000 (143 bb)
Ashraf Chehata – 987,000 (123 bb)
Justin Zaki – 903,000 (113 bb)
Jamie “Beard” Smith – 886,000 (111 bb)

$2,500 SPS Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $792,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 15:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  40 of 352

Action continued at a measured pace and players, even those short-stacked, were in no hurry to push their luck after the bubble burst. We lost the first four in the money to get the field down to five tables with 30 minutes left till the next break.

41st: Nick Scholz – $4,700
42nd: Andre Plaza – $4,700
43rd: Michael Cole – $4,700
44th: Tyler Denson – $4,700

$2,500 SPS Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $792,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 14:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  44 of 352

On the second money bubble hand, one player under the gun opened to 15K, it folded to Nakim Adesio in the big blind, and he moved all in. The UTG player thought for a few minutes, the other tables finished their action, and he called at risk for 223,000.

Adesio:
UTG:

It looked like we’d have a double on the bubble but dealer put a queen in the window of the flop. Adesio took the lead and his pair of queens held on the turn and river to send the field into the money.

Nakim Adesio – 625,000 (125 bb)

$2,500 SPS Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $792,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 14:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  45 of 352

The SPS Championship field reached 45 players and tournament staff paused the clock to begin play on the money bubble.

They will play hand-for-hand until one player is eliminated with two minutes coming off the clock for each hand.

$2,500 SPS Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $792,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 14:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  47 of 352

With about 225,000 in the pot and the board reading , Michael Silva ripped in his stack worth 266,000 from middle position. Justin Zaki was in the hijack with a bigger stack and was thinking it through.

After two minutes, Zaki dropped in some chips to call, Silva shrugged and showed . Zaki flipped over his for aces up to take the huge pot near the bubble.

Justin Zaki – 794,000 (159 bb)

$2,500 SPS Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $792,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 14:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  48 of 352

The second break ended and players returned to action with the money bubble coming up. Jamie “Beard” Smith still leads the way with 734,000 with Ryan Hogan, Justin Zaki, RJ Sullivan, and Harvey Vandeven rounding out the top five.

Jamie “Beard” Smith – 734,000 (147 bb)
Ryan Hogan – 545,000 (109 bb)
Justin Zaki – 397,000 (79 bb)
RJ Sullivan – 462,000 (92 bb)
Harvey Vandeven – 475,000 (95 bb)