The light purple T500 chips are being colored up prior to the start of Level 20 (5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante).
Chino Rheem is the chip leader with 1,137,000, while four other players have hit the 800,000 mark. When play resumes, we will have their names.
Level 19
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 500
The board reads 390 players remaining and the average stack is about 217,000. Only 300 players make the money.
Here are a few chip counts from around the room:
Chino Rheem – 915,000 (114 bb)
Benjamin Zamani – 590,000 (73 bb)
Sam Barnhart – 560,000 (70 bb)
Pedro “Pete” Rios – 545,000 (68 bb)
Tom Nguyen – 480,000 (60 bb)
Ty Reiman – 365,000 (45 bb)
Nicolas Cardyn – 340,000 (42 bb)
Ian O’Hara – 330,000 (41 bb)
Abbey Daniels – 310,000 (38 bb)
Loni Harwood – 290,000 (36 bb)
Kyle Bowker – 285,000 (35 bb)
Zo Karim – 275,000 (34 bb)
Ylon Schwartz – 270,000 (33 bb)
Bill Mullins – 260,000 (32 bb)
Andrew Watson – 215,000 (26 bb)
Justin Zaki – 210,000 (26 bb)
Dwyte Pilgrim – 210,000 (26 bb)
Michael Rocco – 200,000 (25 bb)
Bryan Campanello – 200,000 (25 bb)
Scott Baumstein – 195,000 (24 bb)
David Diaz – 195,000 (24 bb)
Brian Hawkins – 175,000 (21 bb)
Matt Giannetti – 165,000 (20 bb)
Michael Tait – 150,000 (18 bb)
Marsha Wolak – 140,000 (17 bb)
Shawn Busse – 96,000 (12 bb)
Scott Zakheim – 85,000 (10 bb)
James Calderaro – 80,000 (10 bb)
Darryll Fish – 65,000 (8 bb)
Noah Schwartz – 60,000 (7 bb)
Among the players who have recently been eliminated are Bill Gazes and Keven Stammen.
The $240 HORSE returned to action for Day 2 with 11 players remaining, and as the first break was beginning, Ralph Broderick was eliminated in ninth place during a hand of seven-card stud.
That leaves the final eight players who make up the official final table. Here are their official chip counts from the break, with the limits increasing to 6,000-12,000.
1. Barry Levy – 48,000 (4 BB)
2. Bruce Zalkin – 78,000 (6 BB)
3. Ed Ward – 61,000 (5 BB)
4. Jordan Chizick – 137,000 (11 BB)
5. Mark Robinson – 156,000 (13 BB)
6. Gary Flur – 124,000 (10 BB)
7. Jason Like – 206,000 (17 BB)
8. BoB Poolos – 11,000 (1 BB)
And here is a look at the remaining prizepool, along with the players who have already cashed:
1st: $6,120
2nd: $3,468
3rd: $2,468
4th: $1,714
5th: $1,306
6th: $1,000
7th: $796
8th: $592
9th: Ralph Broderick – $428
10th: Ronald Unger – $428
11th: Christopher Kasper – $428
12th: Arnold Cohen – $428
13th: Ky MacPherson – $306
14th: Wendell Morse – $306
15th: Michelle Lau – $306
16th: Joseph Antelo – $306
Level 18 (blinds 3,000/6,000 with a 500 ante) has just started. The board reads 480 players remaining and on top of the chip counts is Chino Rheem with just more than 800,000. The only other player in the room above the 500,000 mark is Tom Nguyen with 550,000. The average stack is about 176,000
Level 17
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 400
Picking up the action after the river of a 
board with about 160,000 in the pot, Bryan Campanello check-called 100,000 from Chino Rheem.
Rheem tabled 
for trips, Campanello mucked, and Rheem collected the pot.
Chino is now up to 807,500 and is the overall chip leader, while Campanello is down to about 115,000.
Had it up to 400k but got #chino‘d twice and have ~115k on break #leggo
— Bryan Campanello (@b_campanello45) August 18, 2013
Action is in the middle of Level 17 (2,500/5,000 blinds with a 400 ante) and 520 players remain from today’s starting field of about 816 players. The average stack is about 151,000 and at the break, we’ll take a look for the big stacks around the room.
Day 1 chip leader Pedro “Pete” Rios is holding steady with about 420,000, while a few others have crossed the 400K mark, including David “Chino” Rheem with about 440,000.
Over 400k @SHRPOlive. Can’t bluff a bluffer guys.
— Abbey Daniels (@abbeydaniels1) August 18, 2013
Event 11 ($2,200 No-Limit Hold’em) began at noon and has a guaranteed prizepool of $150,000. Registration is open until the end of Level 4 and at the moment 30 players are registered, including Barry Hutter and Dan Buzgon. Levels last an hour.
Total Prizepool: $1,694,500
1st: $291,087
2nd: $190,125
3rd: $124,630
4th: $104,635
5th: $85,150
6th: $66,935
7th: $49,140
8th: $33,045
9th: $23,725
10th-12th: $15,250
13th-15th: $11,014
16th-18th: $8,642
19th-27th: $7,032
28th-36th: $5,507
37th-45th: $4,660
46th-54th: $4,067
55th-63rd: $3,660
64th-72nd: $3,304
73rd-81st: $2,965
82nd-90th: $2,745
91st-100th: $2,542
101st-110th: $2,372
111th-120th: $2,203
121st-130th: $2,033
131st-140th: $1,864
141st-150th: $1,695
151st-160th: $1,559
161st-170th: $1,440
171st-180th: $1,356
181st-200th: $1,288
201st-250th: $1,220
251st-300th: $1,169
After six starting flights that generated a total of 3,389 entries, Day 2 of Event 7 ($560 No-Limit Hold’em) is underway. Just shy of 816 players are back at it (some players had multiple stacks because of re-entires) and the plan for the day is to play down to a winner. The average stack is abotu 104,000 and on top of the chip counts entering the day is Pedro “Pete” Rios with 453,500.
Levels are 40 minutes with a break after every three levels. Play starts at Level 15, with the blinds at 1,500/3,000 and a 300 ante.