$400 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $276,540  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 24:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  17 of 838

$400 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $276,540  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  18 of 838

As they were breaking a table after reaching 18 players, Cheri Ivan defended her big blind from a Sam O’Bryant raise.

The flop was and both players checked, then all of Ivan’s 485,000 went in the middle after the turn.

Ivan:
O’Bryant:

O’Bryant flopped a full house but he was drawing to one out against Ivan’s quads. It wasn’t the river and Ivan doubled big through the leader.

Cheri Ivan – 1,100,000 (28 bb)
Sam O’Bryant – 2,200,000 (55 bb)

$400 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $276,540  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  18 of 838

$400 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $276,540  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  19 of 838

$400 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $276,540  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  20 of 838

$400 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $276,540  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  21 of 838

$400 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $276,540  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  22 of 838

Here’s a look at the lineup at the last three tables with 22 players remaining and Sam O’Bryant leading.

Table 10
Seat 1: Juan Catala – 745,000 (19 bb)
Seat 2: Aaron Thivyanathan – 1,685,000 (42 bb)
Seat 3: Luke Torres – 885,000 (22 bb)
Seat 4: Chris Caywood – 1,860,000 (47 bb)
Seat 5: Chase Kalivas – 1,400,000 (35 bb)
Seat 8: Drew Luker – 470,000 (12 bb)
Seat 9: Gabe Fuller – 1,220,000 (31 bb)

Table 13
Seat 1: Raymond Anderson – 760,000 (19 bb)
Seat 2: Chris Moore – 1,935,000 (48 bb)
Seat 3: Kai Merola – 585,000 (15 bb)
Seat 4: Ben Paul Chelladurai – 850,000 (21 bb)
Seat 5: John Kennedy – 555,000 (14 bb)
Seat 6: Forrest Raleigh – 1,930,000 (48 bb)
Seat 8: John Gordon – 115,000 (3 bb)
Seat 9: Christy Pham – 420,000 (11 bb)

Table 21
Seat 1: Joe Incatasciato – 365,000 (9 bb)
Seat 2: Chris Placko – 905,000 (23 bb)
Seat 3: Sam O’Bryant – 2,890,000 (72 bb)
Seat 4: Nick Egarhos – 1,165,000 (29 bb)
Seat 6: Cheri Ivan – 690,000 (17 bb)
Seat 8: Justin Green – 2,175,000 (54 bb)
Seat 9: Chris Nance – 1,450,000 (36 bb)

23rd: Imre Papp – $1,840
24th: Josh Nicholson – $1,840
25th: Jason O’Loughlin – $1,580
26th: Michael Gross – $1,580
27th: Steven Sinclair – $1,580

Remaining payouts:

1st: $50,090
2nd: $30,960
3rd: $22,950
4th: $17,200
5th: $13,040
6th: $10,000
7th: $7,760
8th: $6,090
9th: $4,840
10th-12th: $3,890
13th-15th: $3,170
16th-18th: $2,610
19th-21st: $2,180
22nd: $1,840

$400 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $276,540  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 21:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  27 of 838

Just like that, TPC Event 1 dropped to 27 players and triggered the three-table redraw. We will post a seat map and chip counts at the next break.

28th: Maled Tajalli – $1,370
29th: Julio Novo – $1,370
30th: Fred Paradis – $1,370
31st: A.J. Kelsall – $1,200
32nd: Matthew Brandy – $1,200
33rd: David Ciener – $1,200
34th: Dave Phillips – $1,070
35th: John Dolan – $1,070
36th: Maroun Akiki – $1,070

$400 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $276,540  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 21:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  36 of 838

The blinds finally caught up, and the field quickly dropped to the last four tables after the color-up break. They are now guaranteed at least $1,070 and increases are coming.

37th: Hyndi Khomutetsky – $970
38th: Lucas Tae – $970
39th: David Wolf – $970
40th: Jose Garcia – $970
41st: Daniel Zucker – $970
42nd: Kris Golshan – $970
43rd: Jesse Hunnicutt – $970
44th: Robert Cornette – $970
45th: Hemchand Prasad – $970

46th: Mike Ahmad – $890
47th: Ioannis Patsourakis – $890
48th: Tarun Gulati – $890
49th: Milind Naik – $890
50th: Scott Woodring – $890
51st: David Pelosi – $890
52nd: Pablo Valdivieso – $890
53rd: Tony March – $890
54th: James Browning Jr – $890

$400 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $276,540  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 20:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  47 of 838

Players are back in their seats after the 1K color-up break, and we found five players with more than one million chips in their stack.

Sam O’Bryant continues to lead the field with Chris Moore, Justin Green, Kai Merola, and Aaron Thivyanathan making up the top five stacks.

Blinds now last 40 minutes each until we have a winner.

Sam O’Bryant – 1,405,000 (70 bb)
Chris Moore – 1,315,000 (66 bb)
Justin Green – 1,256,000 (63 bb)
Kai Merola – 1,145,000 (57 bb)
Aaron Thivyanathan – 1,025,000 (51 bb)