$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 2K/4k/500 ante
Players are now on a dinner break and know that they will be able to afford a nice meal since they are all in the money. They will return in 60 minutes. We’ll have chip counts for the remaining players shortly.
$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 2K/4k/500 ante
After doubling up through Jason Mercier with 
against Mercier’s 
, it was folded to Erik Christensen in the small blind who moved all in first to act on Mercier’s big blind. Mercier took a peek at his cards and quickly announced a call.
After making sure there were no all ins at the remaining tables, the two players revealed their hands with Christensen holding 
and in need of some help as Mercier held 
. He would not get any of that help as the board would run out 
to give Mercier the knock out and move the tournament officially into the money.
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$300 No Limit Hold’em Seniors Event
Blinds: 1K/2K/300 ante
The Seniors event is now in the money with a min-cash earning $1,030 and the winner taking home $4,212.
Robert Aron – 126,400
Robert Tanner – 88,200
Tom Millward – 49,800
David Smith – 23,700
1st – $4,212
2nd – $2,527
3rd – $1,591
4th – $1,030
$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 2K/4k/500 ante
Speculation about hitting the money before the dinner break was quickly shutdown as we are now hand-for-hand on the bubble less than 10 minutes into Level 16.
There will 45 happy players and one very unhappy.
$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 1.5K/3k/500 ante
Four more quick eliminations have everyone wondering if they’ll make the money before the dinner break in 90 minutes.
There were two big back-to-back hands at Table 3 which saw Chris Bolek go out when his 
could not run down the of Raymond McDonough. One hand later and it was Kings again, this time was up against 
and Elliott Zaydman was on the wrong end of that battle.
Margaret Mitchell found a little luck on her side at Table 5 against Matt Waxman. She was down to just a few chips when she called a raise from the small blind with 
and Waxman was holding the now often run Kings.
Someone at the table told her “you have a really good shot at this” just before the dealer spread her a trey and deuce on the flop. She hit a bonus trey on the river for a small double up. It wasn’t a big hit to Waxman as he recently hit a big double with Kings a few hands prior.
$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 1.5K/3k/500 ante
Just like that, half the starting Day 2 field is gone after a quick string of eliminations after the break including former WPT Player of the Year Mukul Pahuja.
That leaves the field just 13 knockouts from going to hand-for-hand action on the money bubble.
$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 1.2K/2.4k/400 ante
The Championship Event is down to just 66 players as they head off to their second break of the day as the tournament staff race off the black chips.
Full counts when they return.
$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 1.2K/2.4k/400 ante
Everything was moving along at a nice, steady pace until they hit Level 14. No one is any particular hurry to leave the Pavilion and they’ve been stuck on eight tables for over an hour.
There are still 70 players hanging on while Jason Mercier was finally able find something willing to double him up to jump over the average stack amount. Darryll “DFish” Fish was the only recent notable to go out.
$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 1K/2k/300 ante
“Who you got!?!” was the yell across the room, aimed at Jason Mercier.
The two-time WSOP bracelet winner has been working to get his stack above average in the early going but his attention was pulled away by the two large projection screens showing NFL games.
It seems he has a monetary interest in the Texans/Cowboys game which was (temporarily) more important than slinging chips.
$300 No Limit Hold’em Seniors Event
Blinds: 200/400/50 ante
Today’s Senior Event drew a nice crowd of 36 entrants with 27 of them still around at the end of registration. They generated a prize pool of $9,630 paying four spots with the winner set to earn $4,212.
1st – $4,212
2nd – $2,527
3rd – $1,591
4th – $1,030
