$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 18: 2,500/5,000/500 Ante

George Boyadjan moved all in for his last 48,000 from the cutoff after Jose Navarrette had limped in. He was called by Alex Boytan out of the small blind and Navarrette let his hand go. Boyadjan proudly turned over and smiled when he saw Boytan’s .

Boyadjan picked up some ous on the flop but the turn was the and the river was the to eliminate him from the tournament in 15th place for $502.

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

We’ve lost three players already with the most recent being Tracey Gelb after she moved all in over the top of Kenny Bhakta’s opener for her last 35,000 in chips. Bhakta had and made the easy call and Gelb needed help with her . She would flop a king and turn a flush draw but the river would make Bhakta aces full of fives to give him the pot. Here are the 16th-18th place finishers, each received $444.

16th – Tracey Gelb
17th – Mario Ratto
18th – Tammy Haney

$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.