$2,500 Coco Poker Open Championship
Level 17: 2,500/5,000/500 Ante

The players are back in their chairs, and the cards are back in the air. There are five players who’ve crossed the 300,000-chip mark:

Neil Blumenfield – 527,000 (105 bb)
Jean Gaspard – 381,500 (76 bb)
Matt Affleck – 363,500 (73 bb)
Scott Efron – 329,000 (66 bb)
Javier Zarco – 315,000 (63 bb)

$2,500 Coco Poker Open Championship
End of Level 16: 2,000/4,000/500 Ante

The 58 remaining players are on a one-hour dinner break. Play resumes at 9:30 PM.

$2,500 Coco Poker Open Championship
Level 16: 2,000/4,000/500 Ante

Neil Blumenfield opens to 10,500 in early position, and James Brown calls on the button. Both blinds call as well, and it’s four ways to the flop.

It comes , and Blumenfield continues for 16,000. Brown calls, the blinds fold, and it’s heads up to the turn. It’s the , and Blumenfield checks. Brown now takes leads the betting for 27,000, and Blumenfield calls. On the river, Blumenfield check-calls another 35,000.

“One pair,” Brown announces.

Blumenfield shows , and Brown mucks.

That pot moves Blumenfield very close to the half-million-chip mark, and it looks like he’s ticked just above that milestone as he stacks the pot.

Neil Blumenfield – 510,000 (128 bb)
James Brown – 270,000 (68 bb)

$2,500 Coco Poker Open Championship
Level 16: 2,000/4,000/500 Ante

Aaron Mermelstein (middle position), Tristan Wade (hijack), and the player on the button check through a flop, and the turn brings the . Mermelstein, who appears to have been the preflop aggressor, leads for 13,000. Wade calls, the button folds, and it’s heads up to the river.

It’s the , and Mermelstein bets 22,000. Wade notices the reporter writing the hand, and he goes on the record as wanting to raise. He doesn’t though, instead electing to call.

“Just a flush,” Mermelstein says.

Wade has a flush too, and his is the better one, giving him the pot.

Tristan Wade – 280,000 (70 bb)
Aaron Mermelstein – 170,000 (43 bb)

$2,500 Coco Poker Open Championship
Level 16: 2,000/4,000/500 Ante

Corey Burbick opens to 8,000 in early position, and the player in the cutoff three-bets to 18,000. Burbick moves all in for 72,000, and his opponent calls.

Burbick:
Opponent:

The board runs out , and Burbick doubles up.

Corey Burbick – 154,000 (39 bb)

$240 No Limit Hold’em Survivor (Re-Entry)
Level 12: 1,200/2,300/300 Ante

After a long stalemate, the final 11 players have decided to forego the final elimination and call it a night. Here are the final results for Event 11:

1st: Zoltan Czinkota ($2,000)
2nd: Eliyahu Bohadanah ($2,000)
3rd: Matthew Bray ($2,000)
4th: Michale Chaparro, Jr. ($2,000)
5th: Richard Whitebrook ($1,900)
6th: Jason Casten ($1,900)
7th: David Steinberg ($1,640)
8th: Brian Phillis ($1,640)
9th: Pascal Theodosiadis ($1,640)
10th: Adamastar Santos ($1,640)
11th: Daniel Nocerino ($1,640)

$2,500 Coco Poker Open Championship
End of Level 10: 500/1,000/100 Ante

The clock has run out on Day 1C, and 75 of the original 207 players have bagged up for the night.

Thanks in part to a vicious end-of-day rush, Prince Gaspard amassed the big stack of 258,300. That’s plenty good enough to lead the Day 1C survivors, and it gives him the overall chip lead heading into the combined Day 2.

Here are some of the other notable stacks from the end of Day 1C:

Prince Gaspard – 258,300
James Carroll – 201,500
Faraz Jaka – 192,600
Kyle Sorel – 185,900
Aleksandr Gorelik – 151,000
James Brown – 149,800
Kareem Marshall – 113,600
Chance Kornuth – 112,100
Michael Laake – 107,200
Matt Waxman – 102,300
Ryan Van Sanford – 94,700
Mike Linster – 70,200
John Holley – 64,100
Matt Affleck – 45,500
Abbey Daniels – 39,500
Allen Kessler – 37,600
Darryll Fish – 34,400

A full list of the survivors will be posted shortly.

Day 2 begins Sunday at 2:00 PM with 135 players remaining.

$2,500 Coco Poker Open Championship
Level 10: 500/1,000/100 Ante

The clock is paused with 10 minutes left in the level, and a card is drawn. It’s five, so each table will play that many more hands before the bags come out for the survivors.

Prince Gaspard is the runaway Day 1C chip leader right now, and he’ll be in contention for the overall chip lead entering Day 2 if nothing significant changes in these final hands.

$240 No Limit Hold’em Survivor (Re-Entry)
Level 8: 500/1,000/100 Ante

There are three tables left in play as Level 8 begins. In fact, in the time it took to write that sentence, three more players have been eliminated, so just 24 of them remain.

The event will conclude when the field is reduced to the final 10 players, each of whom will win $2,000 this evening.

The average stack is 23 big blinds.

$2,500 Coco Poker Open Championship
Level 10: 500/1,000/100 Ante

First in from middle position, Matt Waxman opens to 2,500. A player in late position calls, and the big blind squeezes all in for 23,000 total. Waxman calls with the covering stack, and the third player ducks out of the way.

Waxman:
Big blind:

The board runs out , and Waxman wins the pot with queens up.

Matt Waxman – 83,000 (83 bb)