$500 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $496,020  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 27:  50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante
Players Remaining:  16 of 1,181

$500 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $496,020  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 26:  50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining:  17 of 1,181

$500 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $496,020  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 26:  50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining:  18 of 1,181

$500 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $496,020  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 26:  50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining:  19 of 1,181

$500 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $496,020  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 26:  50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining:  20 of 1,181

Players are back in their seats and ready to grind to the final table. Charles Campos leads but John Pointer is not too far behind.

Table 11
Seat 1: Drew Dodge – 1,700,000 (23 bb)
Seat 3: John Dolan – 1,775,000 (24 bb)
Seat 4: Brandon Wong – 800,000 (11 bb)
Seat 6: Shawn Barnett – 1,900,000 (25 bb)
Seat 7: Huicun Qiao – 2,150,000 (29 bb)
Seat 8: Jacob Naumann – 3,100,000 (41 bb)
Seat 9: Jamie “Beard” Smith – 1,425,000 (19 bb)

Table 13
Seat 1: Andreas Prinsen – 1,000,000 (13 bb)
Seat 2: Igor Tretyakov – 2,300,000 (31 bb)
Seat 3: Frank Weigel – 1,175,000 (16 bb)
Seat 4: Charles Campos – 3,600,000 (48 bb)
Seat 6: Marcio Peixoto – 2,075,000 (28 bb)
Seat 8: Joseph Irrera – 475,000 (6 bb)

Table 21
Seat 1: Adam Levy – 850,000 (11 bb)
Seat 2: John Pointer – 3,450,000 (46 bb)
Seat 3: Scott Malcolm – 2,275,000 (30 bb)
Seat 4: Parm Clemente – 800,000 (11 bb)
Seat 5: Aftab Patni – 1,125,000 (15 bb)
Seat 8: Joao Alves – 2,050,000 (27 bb)
Seat 9: Grant Missonis – 1,225,000 (16 bb)

Remaining payouts:

1st: $82,090 + SPS Trophy
2nd: $50,860
3rd: $38,300
4th: $29,110
5th: $22,340
6th: $17,310
7th: $13,540
8th: $10,700
9th: $8,540
10th-12th: $6,880
13th-15th: $5,600
16th-18th: $4,610
19th-20th: $3,830

$500 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $496,020  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 25:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  20 of 1,181

The 20 remaining players were sent on a 30-minute dinner break and will return around 7 pm to continue the march to our Event 1 champion.

We will grab a complete lineup and chip counts after tournament staff complete the 5K color up.

$500 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $496,020  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 24:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  27 of 1,181

Event 1 is down to the last 27 players and tournament staff paused the clock to redraw seats at the final three tables.

Here is the lineup; we will post counts after the upcoming break.

Table 11
Seat 1: Drew Dodge
Seat 2: Parm Clemente
Seat 3: John Dolan
Seat 4: Brandon Wong
Seat 5: Jesse Mercado
Seat 6: Shawn Barnett
Seat 7: Huicun Qiao
Seat 8: Jacob Naumann
Seat 9: Jamie “Beard” Smith

Table 13
Seat 1: Andreas Prinsen
Seat 2: Igor Tretyakov
Seat 3: Frank Weigel
Seat 4: Charles Campos
Seat 5: John Dobson
Seat 6: Marcio Peixoto
Seat 7: Micah Wright
Seat 8: Joseph Irrera
Seat 9: Dustin Geselius

Table 21
Seat 1: Adam Levy
Seat 2: John Pointer
Seat 3: Scott Malcolm
Seat 4: Eder Murata
Seat 5: Aftab Patni
Seat 6: Kristine Glassman
Seat 7: Damian Dvorak
Seat 8: Joao Alves
Seat 9: Grant Missonis

$500 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $496,020  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 24:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  36 of 1,181

The tournament is down to the last four tables with some big money coming up soon and they will redraw seats when they reach 27 players.

37th: James McKinnon – $1,570
38th: Alan Hamza – $1,570
39th: Randy Raji – $1,570
40th: Michael Sanders – $1,570
41st: Earl Vanlandingham – $1,570
42nd: Ben Paul Chelladurai – $1,570
43rd: Jordan Joeckel – $1,570
44th: Manny Minaya – $1,570
45th: James Perri – $1,570

46th: Andrew Whitaker – $1,410
47th: Gabe Fuller – $1,410
48th: Deborah Greenway – $1,410
49th: John Kennedy – $1,410
50th: Daniel Schmidt – $1,410
51st: Nathan Tanner – $1,410
52nd: Bill Lewis – $1,410
53rd: Curtis King – $1,410
54th: Jordan Lowery – $1,410

$500 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $496,020  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  40 of 1,181

Another break has come and gone and the field continue to shrink at a fast pace. We are down to five table and not very far from four.

Jacob Naumann is the new chip leader and the only player over two million. Drew Dodge and John Dolan are closest to chasing him down while our double-bagger, Andreas Prinsen, climbed over a milly.

Jacob Naumann – 2,405,000 (60 bb)
Drew Dodge – 1,785,000 (45 bb)
John Dolan – 1,635,000 (41 bb)
Andreas Prinsen – 1,385,000 (35 bb)

$500 No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $496,020  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 21:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  54 of 1,181

The really big money is on the distant horizon but that’s not slowing things down. We are quickly down to the last six tables with 54 remaining and looking at a long grind to the winner.

55th: Brian DiLenge – $1,280
56th: Sandro Vianna – $1,280
57th: Jeremy Herauf – $1,280
58th: Robert Thomas – $1,280
59th: Michael Dalberth – $1,280
60th: Jerome Leonardo – $1,280
61st: Yucheng Zhao – $1,280
62nd: Gregory Wolnomiejski – $1,280
63rd: Alexander Sachs – $1,280

64th: Shane Dellus – $1,170
65th: Erik Wood – $1,170
66th: Ronald Romanelli – $1,170
67th: Jack Bittker – $1,170
68th: Ramon Martinez – $1,170
69th: Michael Tuttle – $1,170
70th: Chris Perry – $1,170
71st: Jayce Little – $1,170
72nd: Raunaq Singh – $1,170