$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 27: 50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante Players Remaining: 11 of 959
As the level was coming to an end, Raminder Singh and Kyrylo Kobzyev were heads up with the flop reading . Kobzyev bet 550,000 and Singh moved all in for 1,150,000 to put kobzyev in the tank.
Two minutes later, Kobzyev called to put Singh at risk.
Singh: Kovzyev:
Singh was ahead with his pair of nines and needed to dodge the over cards. The turn changed nothing and the river gave Singh the double.
Chad Summers and Aaron Pinson were eliminated before that and the level moved up. Blinds are now 50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante and the average stack is 2,625,000 (35bb).
12th: Chad Summers – $19,922 13th: Aaron Pinson – $16,136
$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 26: 25,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante Players Remaining: 13 of 959
James Kerr
Showing no slowing, three more players hit the payout desk before the next break. That leaves us with 13 players remaining and seven of them trying to make the final table that runs tomorrow.
Michael Cohen and James Kerr are in a dead heat for the top spot, both coming back from break with 3,650,000.
Blinds are now 25,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante and the average stack is 2,225,000 (30 bb).
14th: Montana Heirman – $16,136 15th: Paul Crump Brooks – $13,260 16th: David “Stix” Uber – $13,260
$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 26: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante Players Remaining: 16 of 959
Michael Cohen
Michael Cohen is running out and Nathan Cho was on the wrong end of it. Cho opened the action, Cohen three-bet shipped, and Cho quickly called for ~1,000,000.
It looked great for Cho with aces versus the fives of Cohen until another five hit the board. Cohen made a set, Cho had his aces cracked, and the Main Event shrunk down to the last two tables.
Michael Cohen – 3,450,000 (69 bb)
17th: Nathan Cho – $11,058 18th: Rohan Long – $11,058
$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 26: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante Players Remaining: 18 of 959
Antonio Cristallini
As Level 25 was coming to an end, we had another spurt of knockouts to bring the field down to 18 with former leaders Neal Corcoran and Antonio Cristallini among the casualties.
Blinds are now 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante and the average stack is 1,600,000 (32 bb).
19th: Neal Corcoran – $11,058 20th: Maurice Paradis – $11,058 21st: Antonio Graham – $9,361 22nd: Michael Miller – $9,361 23rd: Antonio Cristallini – $9,361 24th: Joseph Salvaggi – $9,361
$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 25: 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante Players Remaining: 24 of 959
Jeremy Becker
The second half of Level 24 was not nearly as hectic as the first. Three players were eliminated in those 20 minutes after the break but things settled after the redraw with 24 still in the mix.
Raminder Singh seemed to be in cruise control with 3,180,000 but he lost a huge pot to double Jeremy Becker up to 1,700,000. Singh is still doing well with 2,300,000 but he’s a little closer to average than before.
Blinds are now 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante and the average stack is 1,200,000 (30 bb).
$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 24: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante Players Remaining: 24 of 959
It took less than half of a level after dinner to get the Main Event down to its last three tables. Tournament staff paused the clock to perform a three-table redraw and play will get back underway once all stations are cleaned down to follow our Safe + Sound procedures.
25th: Chanthy Phoutsakanh – $8,045 26th: Richard Swain – $8,045 27th: Thomas McCormick – $8,045
$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 24: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante Players Remaining: 27 of 959
James Kerr
The dinner break is complete and cards are back in the air. James Kerr continues to lead the pack with 2,975,000 with Raminder Singh (2,395,000), Michael Cohen (2,250,000) and Gary Bowker (2,025,000) the closest to catching him.
Blinds are now 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante and the average stack is 1,065,000 (36 bb).
We were able to catch up with the results and this is where we are heading into the last part of the night.
28th: Harvey Vandeven – $8,045 29th: Jason Kapoor – $7,022 30th: Al Khan – $7,022 31st: Justin Zaki – $7,022 32nd: Anthony Askey – $7,022 33rd: Ryan Snow – $6,225 34th: Scott Reginatto – $6,225 35th: Aaron Thivyanathan – $6,225 36th: Ashraf Chehata – $6,225 37th: Kareem Marshall – $6,225 38th: Ricardo Eyzaguirre – $6,225 39th: Brian Batt – $6,225 40th: Paul Balzano – $6,225 41st: William Brudenfll – $5,607 42nd: Jared Ingles – $5,607 43rd: Gary Herstein – $5,607 44th: Rafael Reis – $5,607 45th: Richard Kincaid – $5,607 46th: Maxwell Loveland – $5,607 47th: William Medina Diaz – $5,607
$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 22: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante Players Remaining: 29 of 959
Justin Zaki
We didn’t see how they got there but found Justin Zaki and David “Stix” Uber playing a huge pot with the board out to the turn reading . Zaki checked, Uber announced “all in”, and Zaki called for what appeared to be about 350,000.
Uber: Zaki:
It was a tough two-out turn for Zaki and he could not return the favor on the river to exit in 31st place.
Meanwhile, more craziness went down on Table 22 as one-time chip leader Al Khan’s seat was empty and James Kerr was sporting the biggest chip castle in the room (pictured below). Kerr said there was a huge three-way pot that saw his aces earn him a stack up to 2,975,000.