$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  35 of 618

The second break is complete, the 1K chips have come out of play, and the 100K chips were introduced. James Wong leads the way with 1,795,000 followed by Emmanuel Santos (1,075,000), Juan Carlos Ramirez (1,035,000) and Dave Edwards (1,015,000).

In a shocking turn of events, former one-million stack George Imes was gone shortly after he build his stack. As his table told it, he put 700K in the middle with an open-ended straight draw against Wong’s kings and did not get there.

Hence, Wong the chip leader.

Blinds are up to 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante and the average stack is 530,000 (53 bb). They will play two more levels before taking a 40-minute dinner break.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  37 of 618

Former Tampa Winter Poker Open champ found himself down to 66,000 and got his chips in the middle with flipping against . A five on the flop sealed his fate to exit in 38th place.

But according to Minaya, that wasn’t his doom hand. Apparently, George Imes caught a one-outer to leave him short. The hand pushed Imes up to 1,102,000 heading towards the second break.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  40 of 618

Still no slow in the game and Event 1 is down to the last five tables with 40 players remaining. Charles Mayes made the most of his extra bullet today but his kings ran into aces and he had to settle for 46th place.

They will play out the last 20 minutes of Level 18 before a break to catch their breath.

41st: Tony March – $915
42nd: Grant Missonis – $915
43rd: William Davis – $915
44th: Spencer Sweisford – $915
45th: Samuel Schenker – $915
46th: Charles Mayes – $915
47th: Karl Manouchakian – $915
48th: Fred Paradis – $915

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  43 of 618

After a crazy hour when the field lost 12 players, they moved into Level 18 where things should settle down and head into the long grind towards the deep money.

Blinds are up to 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 ante and the average stack about 431,000 (54 bb).

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 17:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  46 of 618

We missed the action but caught up with the board out and reading . Dave Edwards checked from the big blind, Karl Manouchakian moved all in for 279,000 and Edwards called after a short think.

Manouchakian showed a busted flush draw and Edwards was best with two pair to send him out in 47th place.

On the next hand, Edwards was heads with Aiping Jaing and Edwards checked from the small blind with the board reading . Jiang bet 20,000, Edwards check/raised to 90,000 and Jiang called.

The river was , Edwards quickly put out two stacks worth 116,000 and Jiang called. Jiang then immediately mucked when Edwards showed for quad sixes.

Edwards moved into the chip lead with a very nice 1,220,000 in his stack.

Dave Edwards – 1,220,000 (203 bb)
Karl Manouchakian – Eliminated in 47th Place ($915)

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 17:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  48 of 618

Despite the super deep stacks at this stage, the pace continued to blaze away and another table was broken before too long into Level 17. That least 48 players remaining and everyone left is guaranteed at least $915.

49th: Anthon Askey – $810
50th: Ken O’Donnell – $810
51st: Brenen Chases – $810
52nd: Jeremy Becker – $810
53rd: Alan Ramkha – $810
54th: Viral Mehta – $810
55th: Jason Klapman – $810
56th: Adnan Kazim – $810

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 17:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  55 of 618

We caught up with the first round of results from this afternoon with some surprises including returning chip leader Ryan Hogan out 67th place.

57th: Marvin Karlins – $730
58th: Nicholaus Cunningham-Benjamin – $730
59th: Robert Bloom – $730
60th: Bradley Grossman – $730
61st: Jeffrey Clayton – $730
62nd: Michael Malinconico – $730
63rd: Mansoor Kader – $730
64th: Fabian Foster – $730

65th: Kevin Blewitt – $665
66th: Jim Farnsworth – $665
67th: Ryan Hogan – $665
68th: Nicholas Scholz – $665
69th: Jermaine Gerlin – $665
70th: Mark Becker – $665
71st: Tarunpreet Singh – $665
72nd: Jeffrey Hartwick – $665

73rd: Ryan Luker – $620
74th: Eric Buel – $620
75th: Raymond Buckman Jr – $620
76th: Aaron Thivyanathan – $620
77th: Anatoly Zharnitsky – $620
78th: William Davis – $620

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 17:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  55 of 618

Event 1 broke down to the last seven tables after the break and that put the two biggest stacks next to each other.

Emmanual Santos began the day with 344,000 but his current 930,000 leads the field with Siddharth Siddharth next to him with 859,000 for the second biggest in the room. Dave Edwards rounds on the top stacks in the room with 778,000 with a lot close by.

The blinds went up to 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante with an average stack about 337,000 (56 bb).

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  58 of 618

After a crazy first two levels of the day, tournament staff sent the remaining 58 players on a 15-minute break to regroup. We will use this time to catch up with the results and see who went big on Day 2.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  78 of 618

It took ten hands before the bubble burst for Event 1 and it was a tough one.

With the board reading , a middle position player bet 20,000 and Alan Thomas moved all in. The MP player was the shorter of the two stacks, took a few minutes to think it through, and called for 146,000 total.

Thomas:
Middle Position:

Thomas caught a set of sixes to take the lead against the aces, made a boat on the turn and burst the bubble after the river finished the board.