$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-out)
Level 17: 2,000/4,000/500 Ante

Level 16 comes to an end, and the players take their 40-minute dinner break. Action is scheduled to resume at about 8:10 pm.

Here are their official chip counts:

TABLE 1
Seat 1.
Seat 2.  Rayan Chamas  –  208,500  (52 bb)
Seat 3.  Glen Cressman  –  124,000  (31 bb)
Seat 4.  Ryan Riess  –  420,000  (105 bb)
Seat 5.
Seat 6.  Javier Gomez Zapatero  –  125,500  (31 bb)

TABLE 2
Seat 1.  Jonathan Duhamel  –  173,000  (43 bb)
Seat 2.  Konstantinos Pantaridis  –  253,000  (63 bb)
Seat 3.  Zo Karim  –  103,000  (25 bb)
Seat 4.
Seat 5.
Seat 6.  Anthony Zinno  –  93,000  (23 bb)

$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-out)
Level 15: 1,200/2,400/400 Ante

Level 14 comes to an end, and the players take a 15-minute break. Here are their official chip counts:

TABLE 1
Seat 1.  Joe Kuether  –  111,900  (46 bb)
Seat 2.  Rayan Chamas  –  135,000  (56 bb)
Seat 3.  Glen Cressman  –  101,600  (42 bb)
Seat 4.  Ryan Riess  –  296,800  (123 bb)
Seat 5.
Seat 6.  Javier Gomez Zapatero  –  227,700  (94 bb)

TABLE 2
Seat 1.  Jonathan Duhamel  –  117,500  (48 bb)
Seat 2.  Konstantinos Pantaridis  –  207,400  (86 bb)
Seat 3.  Zo Karim  –  66,200  (27 bb)
Seat 4.  Otto Palacios  –  88,900  (37 bb)
Seat 5.
Seat 6.  Anthony Zinno  –  142,000  (59 bb)

$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-out)
Level 13: 800/1,600/200 Ante

Otto Palacio, Mengchao Yo, and Anthony Zinno are the second half lineup on Table 2 and they just took turns sliding chips to the right.

Palacio was the first one to get a needed double when he moved all-in for 28,300 with after a Jonathan Duhamel open. Yu moved in over the top with to isolate before Palacio survived the board.

The next hand saw the short(er) stacked Yu move in against Zinno’s big blind. It was another race with Yu’s against and the pair held once again when it rolled .

$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-out)
Level 9: 300/600/100 Ante

Level 8 comes to an end, and the players take their 40-minute dinner break as the green (25) chips are colored up off the tables. Action is scheduled to resume at about 10:10 pm ET.

With 35 players remaining from a starting field of 124, the average chip stack is about 42,500 (70 big blinds). Registration remains open until the end of the dinner break.

Here are some official chip counts from the dinner break:

Mengchao Yu  –  141,500  (235 bb)
Joe Kuether  –  71,600  (119 bb)
Greg Marcus  –  60,700  (101 bb)
Jonathan Duhamel  –  60,000  (100 bb)
Anthony Zinno  –  58,800  (98 bb)
Will Failla  –  53,000  (88 bb)
Barry Hutter  –  49,000  (81 bb)
Ami Alibay  –  44,700  (74 bb)
Zo Karim  –  41,800  (69 bb)
Ryan Riess  –  39,700  (66 bb)
Harrison Gimbel  –  35,600  (59 bb)
Abbey Daniels  –  27,300  (45 bb)
Kevin Eyster  –  20,800  (34 bb)
Michael Wang  –  16,300  (27 bb)
Ty Reiman  –  15,700  (26 bb)
Hans Winzeler  –  9,800  (16 bb)
Daniel Strelitz  –  7,200  (12 bb)

Recent eliminations include WPT champions Eric Afriat and Jared Jaffee.

$2,200 Eight Game Mix (Single Re-Entry)
Level 9: Limits 800/1600

Here are the chip counts for the remaining nine players:

Seat 1: Michael Mixer – 4,250
Seat 2: Jonathan Gray – 33,150
Seat 3: Marcello Costa – 26,100
Seat 4: Ben Yogel – 39,050
Seat 5: Jyri Merivirta – 23,525
Seat 6: Jason Mercier – 56,525
Seat 7: Cory Zeidman – 3,700
Seat 8: Ilya Krupin – 4,200
Seat 9: Brian Hastings – 32,500

$2,200 Eight Game Mix (Single Re-Entry)
Level 7: 500/1,000 Limits

The players return from their 15-minute break to begin Level 7, with increased limits of 500-1,000. With 12 players remaining, the average chip stack is 18,750 (18 Big Bets).

TABLE 7
Seat 1.  Jason Mercier  –  26,275  (26 BB)
Seat 2.  Jonathan Gray  –  15,000  (15 BB)
Seat 3.  Marcello Costa  –  25,275  (25 BB)
Seat 4.  Michael Mixer  –  26,050  (26 BB)
Seat 5.  Jyri Merivirta  –  27,150  (27 BB)
Seat 6.  Robert Campbell  –  9,700  (9 BB)

TABLE 8
Seat 1.  Cory Zeidman  –  13,600  (13 BB)
Seat 2.  Ben Yogel  –  38,825  (38 BB)
Seat 3.  Ilya Krupin  –  9,750  (9 BB)
Seat 4.  Mikhail Zlotnik  –  10,475  (10 BB)
Seat 5.  Jonathan Duhamel  –  4,450  (4 BB)
Seat 6.  Brian Hastings  –  13,325  (13 BB)

The schedule is to play down to the final table tonight, or until 3:00 am ET, whichever comes first.

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-out)
Level 15: 1,200/2,400/400 Ante

Updated chip counts for the six remaining players:

Travell Thomas – 82,500
Pete Malkoun – 174,000
Alon Yehudi – 314,800
John Brody – 30,100
Kazu Oshima – 310,200
Oktay Altinbas – 108,000

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 34: 200,000/400,000/50,000 Ante

Level 33 comes to an end, and the players take a 15-minute break. Here are the official chip counts as the blinds will be increasing to 200,000-400,000 with a 50,000 ante:

Seat 1.  Kyle Sorel  –  5,950,000  (14 bb)
Seat 2.  Sam Panzica  –  9,175,000  (22 bb)
Seat 3.  Leonard Benitez  –  10,025,000  (25 bb)
Seat 4.  Michael “Zombie” Tufaro  –  5,425,000  (13 bb)
Seat 5.
Seat 6.  Rafael Reis  –  5,375,000  (13 bb)
Seat 7.  Bradley Hinson  –  1,525,000  (3 bb)
Seat 8.  Manfred Rosenow  –  2,200,000  (5 bb)
Seat 9.
Seat 10.  Richard Zipes  –  9,750,000  (24 bb)

And the remaining prizepool:

1st:  $215,244
2nd:  $139,781
3rd:  $91,538
4th:  $77,931
5th:  $64,943
6th:  $52,573
7th:  $40,821
8th:  $29,688

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 32: 75,000/150,000/25,000 Ante

Day 2 comes to an end with 14 players remaining, and an average chip stack around 3.5 million (23 big blinds). These players are all guaranteed at least $9,278 each, and they will resume play tomorrow (Monday) at 2:00 pm ET.

Here are their official chip counts:

TABLE 2
Seat 1.  Rafael Reis  –  9,325,000  (62 bb)
Seat 2.  George Dolofan  –  2,325,000  (15 bb)
Seat 3.
Seat 4.  Sam Mallard  –  2,000,000  (13 bb)
Seat 5.  Richard Zipes  –  2,700,000  (18 bb)
Seat 6.  Leonard Benitez  –  1,475,000  (9 bb)
Seat 7.  Michael “Zombie” Tufaru  –  4,975,000  (33 bb)
Seat 8.
Seat 9.  Kyle Sorel  –  9,625,000  (64 bb)

TABLE 3
Seat 1.  Mike Beasley  –  1,975,000  (13 bb)
Seat 2.  Steven Cohen  –  1,225,000  (8 bb)
Seat 3.  Bradley Hinson  –  3,025,000  (20 bb)
Seat 4.  Zo Karim  –  1,675,000  (11 bb)
Seat 5.  Manfred Rosenow  –  2,250,000  (15 bb)
Seat 6.
Seat 7.
Seat 8.  Sam Panzica  –  3,425,000  (22 bb)
Seat 9.  Benjamin Zamani  –  1,450,000  (9 bb)

And here is the remaining prizepool that they’re playing for:

1st:  $215,244
2nd:  $139,781
3rd:  $91,538
4th:  $77,931
5th:  $64,943
6th:  $52,573
7th:  $40,821
8th:  $29,688
9th:  $21,648
10-12th:  $14,226
13-14th:  $9,278

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 31: 60,000/120,000/20,000 Ante

Here are the updated chip counts and new seating assignments for the final 18 players, with an average chip stack around 2.75 million (22 big blinds).

TABLE 1
Seat 1.  Mike Beasley  –  1,375,000  (11 bb)
Seat 2.  Steven Cohen  –  1,930,000  (16 bb)
Seat 3.  Bradley Hinson  –  2,690,000  (22 bb)
Seat 4.  Zo Karim  –  1,365,000  (11 bb)
Seat 5.  Manfred Rosenow  –  2,215,000  (18 bb)
Seat 6.  Cory Zeidman  –  1,700,000  (14 bb)
Seat 7.  Richard Zipes  –  2,060,000  (17 bb)
Seat 8.  Sam Panzica  –  4,130,000  (34 bb)
Seat 9.  Benjamin Zamani  –  1,560,000  (13 bb)

TABLE 2
Seat 1.  Rafael Reis  –  5,545,000  (46 bb)
Seat 2.  George Dolofan  –  1,625,000  (13 bb)
Seat 3.  Adil Khan  –  3,700,000  (30 bb)
Seat 4.  Sam Mallard  –  1,795,000  (14 bb)
Seat 5.  Moe Maghraoui  –  850,000  (7 bb)
Seat 6.  Leonard Benitez  –  2,320,000  (19 bb)
Seat 7.  Michael “Zombie” Tufaru  –  1,690,000  (14 bb)
Seat 8.  Steven McKoy  –  1,695,000  (14 bb)
Seat 9.  Kyle Sorel  –  10,100,000  (84 bb)

Since there is a color-up scheduled at the end of this level, this will be the last level of the night; action should end around 2:40 am ET.