$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 23: 10,000/20,000/3,000 Ante

Bruno Fortin has been eliminated from Event 17.  Fortin pushed his remaining 72,000 into the middle and was called by Ross Lebo and Louis Leo V.

After Leo fired out on the flop, Ross got out of the way.  Leo’s faced off against Fortin’s .  Fortin could not catch up and Fortin was done for the night in 14th place.

In the meantime, Billy Michel also hit the rail falling in 13th.

All the while, Josias Santos has been quickly moving up the leaderboard.  Santos now sits at 1,280,000 chips and could be headed for a duel with Lebo.

$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 17: 2,000/4,000/500 Ante

It was a quick bubble and they are officially in the money. Here are your in-the-money finishers and their approximate chip stacks:

Table 33
Seat 1: George Boyadjan 97,000
Seat 2: Gil Morgensztern 80,000
Seat 3: Mario Ratto 95,000
Seat 4: David Albertson 145,000
Seat 5: Arlene Vasquez 52,000
Seat 6: Jose Navarrete 70,000
Seat 7: Greg Marcus 180,000
Seat 8: Tammy Haney 44,000
Seat 9: Michael Eddy 120,000

Table 41
Seat 1: Howie Herhkovich 235,000
Seat 2: Alex Boytan 79,000
Seat 3: Tony Burns 57,500
Seat 4: Allan Bieler 115,000
Seat 5: Eric Piderit 215,000
Seat 6: Tracey Gelb 50,000
Seat 7: Luis Bergolla 95,000
Seat 8: Raymond Ruszkowski 37,000
Seat 9: Kenny Bhakta 120,000

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 8,000/16,000/2,000 Ante

It didn’t take long as four players have already been dispatched from our last 18 players.

Yves Fequiere went down in 18th place, Daniel Letts was gone in 17th and Steven Cohen in 16th.

But the game changer may have just went off as Darin Thompson just lost his large stack to chip leader Ross Lebo and went out in 15th.  Lebo now has a wall of chips that may prove to be too much the rest of the field to overcome.  With the win, Lebo now moves to an incredible 2,660,000 chips with the chip average at 558,857.

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 8,000/16,000/2,000 Ante

We’ve hit the final 18 in Event 17 and with that comes a new table draw.  Here are the new seats for our players:

Table 8:
Seat 1 – Darin Thompson
Seat 2 – Bruno Fortin
Seat 3 – Ross Lebo
Seat 4 – Chandler Pinkerton
Seat 5 – Emil Soffer
Seat 6 – Josias Santos
Seat 7 – Dustin Tragethon
Seat 8 – Yves Fequiere
Seat 9 – Louis Leo IV

Table 16:
Seat 1 – Ruslan Dykshteyn
Seat 2 – David Smith
Seat 3 – Ravi Shanmugam
Seat 4 – Jamie Gomez
Seat 5 – Steven Cohen
Seat 6 – Sean Yu
Seat 7 – Billy Michel
Seat 8 – Daniel Letts
Seat 9 – Michael Corbett

$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 1,200/2,400/400 Ante

The remaining 22 players are now on a 15-minute break.

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 21: 6,000/12,000/2,000 Ante

Two of the top stacks aside from Ross Lebo have been seated next to each other trying to become a major threat for the Event 17 title.

Ruslan Dykshteyn has lost a little ground but is still standing strong at 580,000 while Sean Yu is sitting on 637,000 chips.  Because of the seating on the re-draw, they may have to get through each other first before facing down with Lebo.  We play on with 23 players remaining.

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 20: 5,000/10,000/1,000 Ante

We’ve reached the break and we are down to 26 players still standing here in Event 17.  The teal 25k chips have come into play but most of them are sitting in Ross Lebo’s stack.

The other 25 grinders will have their work cut out for them trying to chase him down as we play out our final three tables.

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 20: 5,000/10,000/1,000 Ante

Two wild hands just took place on Table 10 taking us under the 27 player mark.

In the first hand, Jeff Goodrich pushed his 91,000 chip stack into the middle and was called by Ravi Shanmugam with 164,000 and Homero Molina just behind him.  The rest of the table folded and the cards were turned up:

Goodrich:
Shanmugam:
Molina:

Goodrich liked what he saw especially after came out in the window. But unfortunately for him it was followed by giving his opponents the nut straight and eliminating Goodrich.

The very next hand saw chip leader Ross Lebo calling an all-in opponent with taking on . It was a different hand but the same result as the flop came out giving Lebo another flopped nut straight and another victim on his reign of terror over this tournament. The win put Lebo at the 1.2 million chip mark.

$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 1,200/2,400/400 Ante

We’ve only lost one player in the last level but things should start to pick up as the average stack right now is less than 30 big blinds.

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 19: 4,000/8,000/1,000 Ante

A few names we’ve seen before here at Seminole Hard Rock are in our final 36 players.

Bruce “SkullCrusher” Kramer, David Maddox and “No Limit Celtic” are all looking to reach the winner’s circle today and looking quite distinctive.

Kramer is decked out in his traditional black with his crystal skull card protector, Maddox is sporting a lid from his local haberdasher and No Limit Celtic – well, you can guess with the Bostic Celtics playing right now.