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Level 20:  5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  31 of 507

Level 20 came to an end and tournament staff sent the 31 remaining players on a 40-minute dinner break. They will return to play two more one-hour levels before they increase to 90 minute starting with Level 23.

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Level 20:  5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  36 of 507

Event 3 dropped down to the last four tables of the tournament shortly before the dinner break. There are 36 players remaining and everyone is now guaranteed at least $1,500.

37th: Johnny Bromberg – $1,285
38th: Michael Graffeo – $1,285
39th: Eric Walling – $1,285
40th: Richard Leger – $1,285
41st: Nissim Vaknin – $1,285
42nd: Howard Mash – $1,285
43rd: Scott Baumstein – $1,285
44th: Trent Smith – $1,285
45th: Santana Norohna – $1,285

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Level 20:  5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  37 of 507

Carlos Bermudez is the latest to take a run for the biggest stack in the tournament. He is up to 1,540,000 as Level 20 nears completion, a big stack but he’s second to Carlos Rojas still leading with 1,925,000.

They will play out this level and take a 40-minute break when it is complete.

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Level 20:  5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  45 of 507

The steady march towards the bigger money continued and the field dropped down to the last five tables with 45 players remaining. There’s still ver little pressure from the blinds for most players and they can pick their spots.

Blinds are now up to 5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante and the average stack is about 450,000 (30 bb).

46th: Ian Siegel – $1,090
47th: T.K. Miles – $1,090
48th: Mike Beasley – $1,090
49th: Juan Lopez – $1,090
50th: Kharlin Sued – $1,090
51st: John McDonald – $1,090
52nd: Ilias Vrettos – $1,090
53rd: Ian O’Hara – $1,090
54th: Rebecca Dellagloria – $1,090

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Level 19:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  49 of 507

Eric Walling was sitting on the button and watched an early position player raise to 25,000. The bet picked up two callers and Walling moved all in for 190,000. The original raiser came along and the other two abandoned their chips.

Walling:
Opponent:

Walling was racing but still needed to improve to stick around. He found good news right on the flop with his paired queen. His opponent began counting out Walling’s double as the turn and river finished the board.

Eric Walling – 455,000 (46 bb)

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Level 19:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  52 of 507

Action got back underway after the color up break and we have a new leader in the room. Carlos Rojas, the 2021 LHPO $1,100 champ, is sitting at the top of the count as the only player over one million.

He sits with 1,100,000 to lead the field with Gil Levy and Aliaksei Tsiareshka each sitting with exactly 800,000 followed by Johnny Bromberg with 735,000.

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Level 19:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  52 of 507

The 52 remaining players were sent on a 15-minute break while tournament staff pull the 1K chips out of play and put some 100Ks into action.

Blinds will increase to 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante and the average stack about 390,000 (39 bb).

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Level 18:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  54 of 507

After the bubble burst, there was a short run to the payout desk with players taking a shot to build a stack. With 54 players remaining, everyone is now guaranteed at least $1,090.

55th: Mark Gaudino – $935
56th: Harry Silver – $935
57th: Paul Vacchio – $935
58th: Jerry Garfinkel – $935
59th: John Paul Ode – $935
60th: Rafael Lima – $935
61st: Paul Domb – $935
62nd: Michael Kopjanski – $935
63rd: Moises Benchlouch – $935
64th: Brett Bader – $935

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Level 18:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  64 of 507

Cangir Elcin was down to 60,000 as the field rolled into the 14th round of hand-for-hand and took his shot from the button. Victor Taieb had a big stack and had Elcin at risk on the bubble.

Taieb:
Elcin:

It was a race and Elcin needed to improve to stay in the tournament. The board ran out and Taieb’s nines held to knock Elcin out while putting the rest of the field in the money.

Victor Taieb – 711,000 (89 bb)

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Level 17:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  65 of 507

It took a bit to get there but Event 3 dropped to 65 players to put the field on the money bubble. Tournament staff paused the clock and two minutes will come off for each hand deal until one player is eliminated.

With the average stack at 52 big blinds, they settled in for a grind.