$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-out)
Level 10: 400/800/100 Ante

Since our last update, Otto Palacios ended Michael Wang’s night in 20th place and nineteen players are still alive as we enter another break.

Joe Kuether, Barry Hutter, Jonathan Duhamel, Zo Karim, Ryan Riess, Will Failla, Anthony Zinno and Ami Alibay are among the most recognizable names going for this Event 11 championship.

On the next elimination, players will redraw for the final three tables.

$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-out)
Level 10: 400/800/100 Ante

Just when things had temporarily slowed down, the fates would not have it as three more players have fallen in a matter of minutes.

Daren Stabinsky exited in 23rd, Harrison Gimbel was finally finished off by Rayan Chamas in 22nd and Jim Oliver missed an open-ended straight draw to go out in 21st.

All the tables are now temporarily five-handed as the remaining 20 players close in on the money bubble.

$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-out)
Level 10: 400/800/100 Ante

Amazingly, the action has slowed as we have now reached 23 players remaining.  But that hasn’t stopped some amazing poker from being played and the great talent in the room showing why they are at the top of the game.

Rayan Chamas was in a hand with Harrison Gimbel and after a flop, Chamas checked and Gimbel bet 2,100.  Chamas re-raised to 5,600 and Gimbel called.

After a turn card, Chamas bet 4,500 and after some thought Gimbel called again.

With the on the river, Chamas reached back and pulled a huge stack of chips which was enough to put Gimbel all-in.  Gimbel went into the tank to try to decide his fate.  In the meantime, both Ryan Riess and Will Failla sat transfixed on the two players in the hand using the opportunity to try to pick up infomation they could while the hand was going on.

Gimbel finally folded but then Will Failla proclaimed he knew what Chamas was holding and said “King-Ten!”.  Chamas smiled and flipped over .

Failla loudly let the world know about his amazing reading skills and yelled “Put that <bleep> in your blog!”  We did, Will.  We did.

$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-out)
Level 10: 400/800/100 Ante

The field is down to four tables as Level 10 begins with increased blinds of 400-800 and a 100 ante. With 23 players remaining from a field of 125, the average chip stack is about 65,200 (81 big blinds).

Greg Marcus is among the recent eliminations.

In the final hand of Level 9, Javier Gomez (big blind) and Zo Karim (hijack) saw a flop of . Gomez checked, Karim bet 1,700, and Gomez called. The turn was the , Gomez checked, Karim bet 4,800, and Gomez tanked for a while before he check-raised to 14,000.

Karim quickly reraised to 24,000, and Gomez went back into the tank for about two minutes before he folded. Karim took the pot.

Zo Karim  –  72,000  (90 bb)
Javier Gomez  –  172,000  (215 bb)

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

The field has lost six players since the dinner break, including Ty Reiman, Abbey Daniels, Daniel Strelitz, Hans Winzeler, and WPT champion Kevin Eyster.

Eyster got his last 7,500 or so all in preflop from the hijack with , but he ran into Will Failla’s in the small blind.

The board came , and Failla won the pot with a queen-high flush to eliminate Eyster from the tournament.

With 29 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 51,300 (85 big blinds).

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

Hopefully everyone knew this was a freeze-out.

The hectic pace continues in Event 11 as five more players have been eliminated taking the total down to 29 left.  The tournament has been consolidated to five tables with players such as Daren Stabinski, Konstantinos Pantaridis, Anthony Zinno, Joe Kuether and Barry Hutter still in the hunt for the championship.

There is still plenty of time to play tonight as our remaining players will be duking it out through Level 12 tonight.

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

Event 11 has returned from break and with that, registration is now closed.  We finished with a final count of 125 entries and 34 players, including former world champions Jonathan Duhamel and Ryan Riess, are still alive in the tournament.

Play moves on in Level 9 in this six-handed tournament as we await the announcement of prize pool.

$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-out)
Level 8: 250/500/75 Ante

The starting field is up to 123 entries, but only 39 players remain in Event 11. Here are some of the notable counts still in action:

Barry Hutter  –  90,000  (180 bb)
Abbey Daniels  –  80,000  (160 bb)
Will Failla  –  76,000  (152 bb)
Joe Kuether  –  72,000  (144 bb)
Ty Reiman  –  54,000  (108 bb)
Anthony Zinno  –  46,000  (92 bb)
Jonathan Duhamel  –  45,000  (90 bb)
Harrison Gimbel  –  38,000  (76 bb)
Greg Marcus  –  38,000  (76 bb)
Ryan Riess  –  27,000  (54 bb)
Ami Alibay  –  25,000  (50 bb)
Hans Winzeler  –  24,000  (48 bb)
Kevin Eyster  –  22,000  (44 bb)
Eric Afriat  –  20,000  (40 bb)
Daniel Strelitz  –  17,000  (34 bb)
Zo Karim  –  13,000  (26 bb)
Jared Jaffee  –  5,500  (11 bb)

Some of the players who have recently been eliminated include John DePersio, George Dolofan, Darryll Fish, Aaron Massey, Sorel Mizzi, Stewart Newman, Ian O’Hara, Kazu Oshima, Jake Schindler, Marcus Stein, Tim West, Brian Yoon, and Justin Zaki.

With 39 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 37,850 (75 big blinds).