Event #17 ($300 NLHE – $25K Guaranteed) began Monday night and only has 14 players left from its starting field of 233 entries. Here are the chip counts entering play today.

1. David Shaw – 345,000
2. Nashaat Antonious – 265,000
3. Alex Vazquez – 214,000
4. David Yeazell – 177,500
5. Luis Vazquez – 133,500
6. Georges Boyadjian – 110,500
7. Akiva Pearlman – 110,000
8. Delbert Tingler – 110,000
9. Marco Falchi – 107,000
10. Nolan Burton – 94,000
11. Manuel Gomez – 86,500
12. Eduart Bajrami – 79,500
13. Mansoor Kader – 39,000
14. Harold Mahaffey – 25,000

Event #18 ($240 PLO Double Stack – $10K Guaranteed) began a short while ago, but currently most of the action in the ballroom is for the $575 Mega Satelite into the Main Event. There were 600 entrants and action is in Level 7 now, with about 220 players remaining.