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Level 27:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  96 of 7,703

The players returned from their dinner break to begin Level 27, with increased blinds of 30,000-60,000 and a 60,000 ante.

With 96 players remaining from a field of 7,703, the average chip stack is around 1,605,000 (27 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $3,686 each.

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Level 27:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  96 of 7,703

Level 26 came to an end, and the players took a 45-minute dinner break. Action is scheduled to resume around 9:18 pm.

A scan of the field during the break turned up five players with at least 3.6 million in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Raffaello Locatelli  –  5,575,000  (93 bb)
2.  Donavon Wright  –  5,460,000  (91 bb)
3.  David Albertson  –  3,945,000  (66 bb)
4.  Michael Hermoza  –  3,780,000  (63 bb)
5.  Michael Johnson  –  3,635,000  (61 bb)

A few other notable big stacks:

Michael Jagroo  –  3,290,000  (55 bb)
Sheddy Siddiqui  –  3,240,000  (54 bb)

With 96 players remaining from a field of 7,703, the average chip stack is around 1,605,000 (27 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $3,686 each.

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Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  100 of 7,703

With the board showing on the turn, the player in the small blind checked, and Donavon Wright bet 150,000 from the big blind. The UTG+1 player raised to 510,000, and the small blind folded. Wright called.

The river card was the , and Wright moved all in with a big stack. His opponent paused for a moment or two before he folded, and Wright proudly slammed down his on the table for a king-high bluff.

Wright celebrated loudly, at one point chanting “Big bluff. Big bluff. Big bluff.”

When there was a break in the chant, his opponent quietly but clearly said, “I had the same hand.”

Wright sat back down in his seat, and as he stacked the pot, he said, “That’s my last bluff of the day.”

Donavon Wright  –  5,460,000  (109 bb)

With about 100 players remaining from a field of 7,703, the average chip stack is around 1,540,000 (31 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $3,305 each.

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Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  113 of 7,703

The player in the cutoff raised to 150,000, Walter Bravo moved all in from the small blind for 320,000, and Lance Moody tanked for a while before calling from the big blind. The cutoff paused for only a moment or two before he also called.

There was 1,010,000 in the main pot, and any further betting would create a side pot.

The two players still in action checked all the way down on a board of , and it was time for the showdown.

Lance Moody:    (ace high with a king)
Walter Bravo:    (ace high with a nine)
Cutoff:  mucked

Moody won the pot with ace high and his king kicker, and the player in the cutoff mucked. Bravo was eliminated in 114th place.

Lance Moody  –  1,375,000  (28 bb)
Walter Bravo  –  Eliminated in 114th Place  ($3,050)

With 113 players remaining from a field of 7,703, the average chip stack is around 1,365,000 (27 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $3,050 each.

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Level 25:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  134 of 7,703

Sheldon Gross limped from middle position for 40,000, the player in the big blind raised to 140,000, and Gross limp-raised all in for 550,000.

His opponent called with , and Gross turned over . Gross needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came , and Gross paired his ace on the flop to win the pot and double up in chips.

Sheldon Gross  –  1,160,000  (29 bb)

With 126 players remaining from a field of 7,703, the average chip stack is around 1,225,000 (31 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $2,415 each.

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Level 25:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  134 of 7,703

After a flop of , Pasha Golovin moved all in from the big blind for 140,000, and Ronald Collins called from UTG+1 with for a pair of sixes.

Golovin turned over for a pair of aces, and needed his hand to hold to stay alive.

The turn card paired the board with the , the river card was the , and Collins turned trips and rivered a full house to come from behind and win the pot, eliminating Golovin in 135th place.

Ronald Collins  –  2,250,000  (56 bb)
Pasha Golovin  –  Eliminated in 135th Place  ($2,415)

With 134 players remaining from a field of 7,703, the average chip stack is around 1,150,000 (29 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $2,415 each.

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Level 25:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  135 of 7,703

Five players limped to see a flop of , and both blinds checked. The next player bet 80,000 in middle position, Ronald Collins called from middle position, John Gorsuch called from the button, and Alex Torres check-raised all in from the small blind for 540,000.

The big blind folded, and the middle-position player tanked for a while before he moved all in over the top for 835,000.

Collins called, covering both players, and then Gorsuch asked for an exact count. Gorsuch folded, claiming he had queen-jack of hearts (for an open-ended straight draw).

These were the cards for the three all-in players, listed in descending order of chip stacks:

Ronald Collins:    (spade flush draw)
Middle-Position Player:    (pair of tens, gutshot straight draw)
Alex Torres:    (jack-high straight)

Torres had flopped a straight, and needed it to hold to stay alive.

The turn card was the , the river card was the , and Torres won the pot with his jack-high straight to more than triple up in chips.

His opponent in middle position won the much smaller side pot with his pair of tens to stay alive with 590,000, though he still took a loss of 285K on the hand.

If Gorsuch had called with his queen-jack suited, he would have rivered a king-high straight to knock out all three players and catapulted to more than 6.2 million in chips.

Alex Torres  –  1,940,000  (49 bb)
John Gorsuch  –  1,965,000  (49 bb)
Ronald Collins  –  1,820,000  (46 bb)

With about 135 players remaining from a field of 7,703, the average chip stack is around 1,140,000 (29 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $2,415 each.

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Level 24:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  150 of 7,703

Michael Jagroo raised from the cutoff to 65,000, Skip McDonough moved all in from the small blind for 380,000, and Jagroo thought for a while before he called with .

McDonough turned over , and needed his hand to hold to stay alive.

The board came , and Jagroo paired his king on the flop and rivered a king-high straight to win the pot and eliminate McDonough in 154th place.

Michael Jagroo  –  1,630,000  (54 bb)
Skip McDonough  –  Eliminated in 154th Place  ($2,034)

With about 150 players remaining from a field of 7,703, the average chip stack is around 1,025,000 (34 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $2,034 each.

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Level 24:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  185 of 7,703

The players returned from break to begin Level 24, with increased blinds of 15,000-30,000 with a 30,000 ante.

With about 185 players remaining from a field of 7,703, the average chip stack is around 835,000 (28 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $1,525 each.

A scan of the field during the break turned up four players with at least two million in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  David Albertson  –  3,845,000  (128 bb)
2.  Rafaello Locatelli  –  2,795,000  (93 bb)
3.  Phillip Theard  –  2,345,000  (78 bb)
4.  Ronald Collins  –  2,275,000  (76 bb)

David Albertson won a huge pot right before the break, where he raised big preflop to 150,000. His opponent didn’t see the raise, and only called 25K, thinking nobody had raised the big blind.

He was given a fairly standard ruling with two options — he could fold and forfeit his 25,000 into the pot, or he could call the full amount of the raise. He chose to call.

The flop came , and the player who had mistakenly called moved all in with a sizable stack worth well over a million in chips.

Albertson called with for top pair, top kicker, and his opponent turned over — pair of aces with a lower kicker, and a gutshot straight draw. Albertson had his opponent covered.

The turn card paired the board with another , and the river card was a . Albertson won the huge pot with his king kicker to eliminate his opponent and catapult to a sizable chip lead at the break.

David Albertson  –  3,845,000  (128 bb)

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Level 23:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  216 of 7,703

Alex Kimpel (yesterday’s Flight G chip leader) moved all in from early position for 375,000, and the player in the cutoff called with .

Kimpel turned over , and needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came — the cutoff flopped a set of kings, but Kimpel rivered a heart flush to win the pot and double up in chips.

Alex Kimpel  –  815,000  (33 bb)

With about 216 players remaining from a field of 7,703, the average chip stack is around 715,000 (29 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $1,525 each.