$1,100 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Level 15: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Players Remaining: 24 of 186

Level 17 is about halfway complete, and the field has just been reduced to four tables. That means 24 players remain, and they’re now all in the money. Everyone left is guaranteed to earn at least $1,804 this evening.

Play is scheduled to continue until a winner is determined.

$1,100 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Level 15: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Players Remaining: 29 of 186

Je Wook Oh open-shoved the button for 26,600, and Tim Reilly called from the big blind to put him at risk.

Oh:
Reilly:

The board ran out , and Oh doubled up with a Broadway straight.

Je Wook Oh – 56,000
Tim Reilly – 70,000

$1,100 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Level 14: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 39 of 186

Harrison Gimbel put two short stacks at risk preflop.

Gimbel:
Player 2:
Player 3:

The board ran out , and Gimbel turned a pair of nines to win the double knockout pot.

Harrison Gimbel – 245,000

$1,100 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Level 12: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 48 of 186

Registration closed for the $1,100 Six-Max tournament with 186 players creating a prize pool worth $180,420. The last 24 players will earn a piece of that money with a min-cash taking home $1,804 and the eventual champion pocketing $41,604.

1st: $41,604
2nd: $28,146
3rd: $18,403
4th: $14,704
5th: $11,042
6th: $8,498
7 – 9th: $6,351
10 – 12th: $4,222
13 – 15th: $2,959
16 – 18th: $2,201
19 – 24th: $1,804

$1,100 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
End of Level 10: 300/600 with a 75 ante
Total Players: 185

Event 17 players are on a 40-minute dinner break and registration will close when they return to action after 6pm. The prize pool is now over $180,000 and we might pick up a few more players before they shut the door on the $1,100 freeze-out.

$1,100 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Level 9: 250/500 with a 75 ante
Total Players: 183

Event 17 players took their second break of the day as the slow structure creeps higher. The lack of re-entries slowed up the player count but we’re still seeing players get in the game late.

Pfizer Jordan is your current chip leader with Gordan Vayo, Harrison Gimble, and Cate Hall lurking.

They’ll play two more levels and take a 40-minute dinner break. Registration will remain open until they come back from that break around 6:10pm.

Top stacks and notables:

Pfizer Jordan – 70,100 (140 bb)
Gordon Vayo – 54,350 (109 bb)
Harrison Gimbel – 46,725 (93 bb)
Cate Hall – 46,550 (93 bb)
Amelia Amato – 45,100 (90 bb)
Daren Stabinski – 37,000 (74 bb)
David Prociak – 29,900 (60 bb)
Neil Blumenfield – 29,400 (59 bb)
Jon Borenstein – 29,275 (59 bb)
Tim Burt – 25,400 (51 bb)
Jon Brody – 23,625 (47 bb)
Matt Stout – 19,600 (39 bb)
Luke Brereton – 19,125 (38 bb)
Sam Panzica – 18,300 (37 bb)
Vinny Pahuja – 17,200 (34 bb)
Aaron Massey – 14,250 (29 bb)
Matt Affleck – 12,500 (25 bb)
Darryll Fish – 7,275 (15 bb)

$1,100 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Level 7: 150/300 with a 50 ante
Total Players: 180

The Event 17 field continues to grow at a steady pace and the prize pool has grown over $175,000 with plenty of time to run it up.

We’ve seen a few new faces pop up since the last break including Adam Levy, Aaron Massey, and SHRP team members Matt Stout and Michael Laake.

The news wasn’t so good for Seminole Hard Rock Tampa ambassador Wally Maddah. He was seen walking out the door on the other side of the room and his seat no long has a stack out front. He’s not alone among those gone from the freeze-out, we also noted there is someone different sitting in WSOP Main Event champ Joe McKeehen’s seat.

$1,100 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Level 6: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Total Players: 168

Neil Blumenfield returned from the first break with less than 5,000 and he put them to work when he returned. He three-bet shoved against Tim Burt and his was racing .

“I have all the suits,” Blumenfield joked.

It was indeed that suits that would save him when it ran out a four-flush board with to save his Event 17 seat.

Tim Burt – 13,500 (68 bb)
Neil Blumenfield – 11,000 (55 bb)

$1,100 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Level 5: 75/150 with a 25 ante
Total Players: 162

Event 17 players returned from their first break of the day with more than 160 in the game to push the prize pool over $150,000.

Matthew Levin is the early chip leader and dealing with a tough table that also includes Tim Burt and Neil Blumenfield. Former SHRP champ Daren Stabinski is also having a nice start to his day and more players pile in this afternoon.

Top stacks and some notable names:

Matthew Levin – 51,000 (340 bb)
Daren Stabinski – 40,225 (268 bb)
Andrew Dean – 36,850 (246 bb)
Famea Luca – 31,600 (211 bb)
Harrison Gimbel – 31,075 (207 bb)
Amelio Amato – 30,575 (204 bb)
David Prociak – 27,500 (183 bb)
Adam Levy – 21,225 (142 bb)
Zo Karim – 21,000 (140 bb)
Nancy Birnbaum – 17,500 (117 bb)
Darryll Fish – 13,725 (92 bb)
Jon Brody – 13,600 (91 bb)
Jacquelyn Scott – 13,000 (87 bb)
Matt Stout – 13,000 (87 bb)
Daniel Buzgon – 12,000 (80 bb)
Darren Rabinowitz – 11,125 (74 bb)
Steven Karp – 11,000 (73 bb)
Neil Blumenfield – 10,000 (67 bb)
Vinny Pahuja – 9,900 (66 bb)
Josh Hillock – 9,400 (63 bb)
Joe McKeehen – 9,225 (62 bb)
Tony March – 9,000 (60 bb)

$1,100 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Level 3: 50/100
Total Players: 133

No slowing so far getting players in the $1,100 freeze-out with 133 in the game less than 90 minutes after the start and hours to go to get in.

Current Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year leader David Prociak jumped in after the start and warming up for one last qualifying event. He started his POY run with a second place finish in the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” Championship and followed that up with a runner-up result in the Seminole Casino Immokalee Poker Challenge Main Event.

Throw in a Coco Poker Showdown trophy and a final table appearance during the WPTDeepstacks Event 1 and Prociak is having a pretty decent 12 month stretch.