$365 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
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Level 19: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 24 of 318

The pace in Event 1 slowed again and only two players hit the payout desk over the last 30 minutes. Martin Ryan moved back into the lead and sits with a big 360,000 stack as they work their way to the final table. Jeff Kessler looks like his nearest competitor with 310,000 while Bryce McVay dropped back to the field with an average stack.

Recent results:

25th: John Spadavecchia – $724
26th: Ricardo Eyzaguirre – $724

$365 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
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Level 18: 2,500/5,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 26 of 318

It took Event 1 a little extra time to get into the money but they wasted no time to get moving after. Seven players hit the rail to get the field down to 27 players. Tournament staff paused the clock and redrew seats at the last three tables.

27th: Waymond Jones II – $724
28th: Joelle Guarino – $638
29th: Stuart Paterson – $638
30th: Osvaldo Legrand – $638
31st: Ebrahim Figueroa – $570
32nd: Vito Polera – $570
33rd: Robert Irby – $570

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Level 17: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 33 of 318

Only two hands were needed to burst the money bubble and we almost had two go out at the same time.

Joelle Guarino opened the action on her table and called after Bryce McVay moved all in from the small blind. That hand was anticlimactic when they both rolled over AQ for a chopped pot.

On a neighboring table, a player open-shoved for 25,000 from the cutoff and Chris Halkitis called in the big blind to put him at risk.

Halkitis:
Cutoff:

Halkitis held the dominating hand and the dealer kept it low on the board to put the field in the money.

Event 1 payouts:

1st – $22,416 + Gold Ring
2nd – $13,862
3rd – $10,068
4th – $7,436
5th – $5,583
6th – $4,258
7th – $3,298
8th – $2,593
9th – $2,069
10th-12th – $1,676
13th-15th – $1,378
16th-18th – $1,149
19th-21st – $971
22nd-24th – $833
25th-27th – $724
28th-30th – $638
31st-33rd – $570

$365 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
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Level 17: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 34 of 318

It didn’t take long after the break for Event 1 to drop to 34 players to put them on the money bubble. Tournament staff paused the clock and will take two minutes off for each hand dealt until we lose one player.

Bryce McVay turned out to be the break time leader after the black chips were colored up and we could get a better look at the stacks. He returned to a 230,000 stack to barely nudge Martin Ryan into second.

$365 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
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Level 16: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 36 of 318

Event 1 could not make its way to the money bubble before they hit the next break but it shouldn’t take long to get into the money when they return.

Martin Ryan looks like the leader at the break and will return to a stack of 220,000 with Bryce McVay also closing with over 200,000 as well.

$365 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
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Level 16: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 36 of 318

The pace slowed as Event 1 neared the money bubble but Chris Halkitis did his part to get the field shorter with a timely two-out river.

He had an opponent all in for 32,800 and dominated with against . The flop brought no drama but the turn had Halkitis looking at a bad beat. That changed with the river binked the river to send the field down to four tables.

$365 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
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Level 16: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 40 of 318

Jeff Kessler is making his bid for a WSOP C ring with a late run of his own. He knocked an opponent out when his flopped a set against on the board and faded the flush to push his stack to 138,000.

Only 40 players remain with 33 getting paid, it is a race between the money bubble and next break.

$365 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
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Level 15: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Players Remaining: 50 of 318

We missed the hand but heard the ruckus. We walked over to see Michael Goldfarb stacking up a castle worth 120,000 and having a good laugh.

That was because his out-flopped  in a big way when it came for a flopped Royal Flush. Not a bad way to start off the series for the room regular.

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Level 14: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Players Remaining: 60 of 318

The Event 1 field dropped an entire table before the first post-dinner break was complete and they’ll now transform into nine-handed play till the end.

Elliot Bradley is making a late move and moved over 110,000 in back-to-back hands. The first was the biggest when he opened from the cutoff and faced a 14,300 shove from the button. He called, tabled and his opponent slow-peeled for the race.

A race that was shut down in a hurry after Bradley flopped a full house on the board. The button was drawing thin to running cards then picked up four outs on the turn. Any ace or seven would give him the bigger boat but the river was a blank to send the pot to Bradley.

$365 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
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Level 13: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 70 of 318

Event 1 players returned from their hour-long dinner break and are ready to grind down to a winner. They broke a table before the restart and there were exactly 70 players remaining when cards went back in the air.

Everyone is chasing George Eugene Navarro at the top of the counts and his 134,300 is the clear big stack as the field crawls lower. We also found Phil Hui, Jeff Kessler, Justin Harvel, Nancy Thomas, Stuart Paterson, and David Moreno among those still alive for the WSOP Circuit ring later this evening.