$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 6: 150/300/25 ante

There are now 66 players left out of the 118 entrants in today’s Event 16, with blinds now at 150/300/ 25 ante. Average stack is about 27K.

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 5: 100/200/25 ante

Some recent tweets from a few of the bustouts from Event 16.

And we busted the 6-max – 76 < 108ss on 5548ss for a lot – Gonna miss the flicker conversations

— Stewart Newman (@stnewman) August 27, 2014

Busted QQ to AA for 35bb, main Thursday

— Ian O'Hara (@ianohara2) August 26, 2014

Busted the 6 max pre ante. Off to the food trucks to drown my sorrows with an Elvis burger and chicken and waffles. Hope @PakmanMMA approves

— Daniel Buzgon (@WiLDmAn_75) August 26, 2014

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 5: 100/200/25 ante

The field stands at 81 players halfway through Level 5 and Even Teitelbaum continues to lead the way with 73,450 while some big name pros are not having a good day.

Notable chips counts:

Evan Teitelbaum – 73,450
Matt Stout – 40,500
Daniel Weinman – 35,025
Corey Burbick – 34,075
Elliott Zaydman – 33,725
Bruno Kawuti – 28,775
John Dolan – 22,825
Mukul Pahuja – 19,550
Tony Ruberto – 17,400
Tyler Reiman – 16,925
Darren Elias – 13,275
Jared Jaffee – 12,500
John Racener – 12,050
Darryll Fish – 6,150
Matt Glantz – 4,500

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 5: 100/200/25 ante

Double belly buster draws are a rare and wonderful thing at the table, we saw one early in the day and had another one at the same table.

Brian Wachs shoved all-in with the board reading and Eric Panayitou took his time making a decision.

Wachs tried talking about the hand with Panayitou but was warned by the dealer.

“I’ll just give him the People’s Eyebrow instead,” Wachs said before staring him down.

Panayitou called, just barely have Wachs covered, with for the double belly buster with bonus flush outs against top pair. More than half the deck was good for Panayitou and he explained this to Wachs just as the dealer popped the on the turn to complete the straight draw. He locked up the hand to send Wachs out and move up to 30,000.

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 5: 100/200/25 ante

Registration has closed for the big buy-in freeze-out and the final tally is 118 players in the field. The $200,000 guarantee was easily reached, we will report prizepool and payout information after the numbers are crunched.

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 3: 100/200

Paul McCaffery’s day wasn’t going well from the start with less than half his starting stack coming back from the break. He moved all-in for his final 2,700 with the board reading .

August Grothe was the only one who looked him up with the old double belly buster draw . McCaffery was holding middle pair then fell behind on the turn. He was still alive with full house outs but blanked the to go out early.

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 3: 100/200

The player count his triple digits shortly after the field returned from their first break of the day. Matt Glantz and his near $6 million in career earnings jumped in the tournament after debating between Event 16 and one of the many Championship Qualifiers running today. He’s keeping an eye on the entrant count in the 5pm satellite, this tournament isn’t going well right out of the gate.

Notable stacks:

Evan Teitelbaum – 46,625
Matt Stout – 23,425
Steve Gross – 22,750
Brian Hastings – 22,000
Jared Jaffee – 21,725
Darryll Fish – 20,550
Joe Kuether – 20,375
Mukul Pahuja – 19,800
John Dolan – 16,450
Daniel Weinman – 12,450
Dan Buzgon – 12,075
Tyler Reiman – 11,500
Corey Burbick – 10,775
John Racener – 10,375
Angel Vu – 7,050
Matt Glantz – 4,400

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 2: 50/100

It’s slow going in Event 16 with a little more caution shown by the players as they only have one shot at the tournament. More players are getting massages than are mixing it up in hands at the moment. The player count clicked over 90 at the mid-point of Level 2 with Joe Kuether, John Racener, and Darryll Fish a few of the late arrivals with more big names waiting until later in the game.

Just settling in for the 6 max @shrpo

— Paul balzano (@Vegaspaulyb) August 26, 2014

$2200 6 max nl #SHRPO

— Darryll Fish (@DarryllFish) August 26, 2014

Back from my 6 weeks of Summer Break :)) It's time to get back on the felt ! Getting ready for @shrpo 10 mil guarntee in a few days…

— Victor Ramdin (@victorramdin) August 26, 2014

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 1: 25/50

There were 50 entrants showing in the information board shortly after the start of play and they continue to join at regular intervals. Some of the early starters include Angel Vu, Andrew Graham, Jared Jaffee, former November Niner John Dolan, and Daniel Weinman fresh off his win in the $2,200 Buy-In Eight Game Mix Event 12.

$2200 6max at #SHRPO today after a fun midday of hanging hangers and setting up lamps #readyforsomepoker

— Brian Hastings (@brianchastings) August 26, 2014