The remaining six players are on a five-minute break. Here are up-to-date chip counts at the end of Level 29 (3,500/7,000).

Player	Chips	Progress
Flawlessbinkage	475,128 78,520	78,520
dhimp20	345,363 36,440	36,440
MattEMenz	184,020 -15,440	-15,440
Jaggyboy13	172,634 -26,000	-26,000
spinach_kale	167,975 -10,500	-10,500
tc_ownz	64,880 -63,020	-63,020

Action was in Level 28 with blinds of 3,000/6,000 and "JaggyBoy" opened to 12,000 in the cutoff. "Flawlessbinkage" was on the button and called, as did "Bagels" out of the big blind.

Action checked around on the flop , bringing the turn on board. "Bagels" led out with a bet of 21,000 and "Jaggyboy13" folded to put action onto "Flawlessbinkage," who called.

Action was then heads up as the river fell and "Bagels" bet another 40,500. "Flawlessbinkage" raised all in, putting "Bagels" to the test for their last 73,000.

After some thought, "Bagels" decided not to commit the remainder of their chips and the pot was sent to "Flawlessbinkage," who was now over 300,000 after taking down the pot.

Moments later, "Flawlessbinkage" finished off "Bagels" to take their stack just shy of 400,000 and bring the tournament down to seven players, resulting in hand-for-hand play among the two remaining tables.

Player	Chips	Progress
Flawlessbinkage	396,608 122,333	122,333
Jaggyboy13	198,634 -12,000	-12,000
tc_ownz	127,900 19,500	19,500
Bagels	Busted

The tournament has reached the beginning of Level 27 (2,500/5,000). Nine players now remain after three eliminations happened in quick succession of one another.

Player	Chips	Progress
Flawlessbinkage	274,275 32,400	32,400
MattEMenz	240,485 97,410	97,410
dhimp20	180,914 36,088	36,088
Jaggyboy13	173,632 85,685	85,685
spinach_kale	168,475 41,600	41,600
Bagels	129,333 2,800	2,800
tc_ownz	115,900 2,716	2,716
CoachD	79,984 -31,000	-31,000
ItsOKman	47,002 12,501	12,501
harveyblicks	Busted
TheSims	Busted
rumpthumper	Busted

Action was in Level 26 (2,000/4,000) as "harveyblicks" opened the action with a pot-sized raise to 14,000. Action folded around to "Jaggyboy13" in the big blind, who defended.

The flop fell and "Jaggyboy13" checked. "harveyblicks" made another pot-sized continuation-bet for 30,000, and "Jaggyboy13" thought for a few moments before check-jamming for 101,632.

"harveyblicks" thought for about 10 seconds and then folded, resulting in "Jaggyboy13" earning the pot with the flop check-shove.

Midway through Level 25 with blinds at 1,800/3,600, there was a pot with 21,600 in the middle on a board of . Action was three ways with "dhimp20" checking in the small blind to put action onto "MattEMenz" in the big blind, who bet 15,984.

"TheSims" was the final player in the hand and called from the cutoff before "dhimp20" folded, taking action heads up to the river .

"MattEMenz" bet again, this time for 14,249, and "TheSims" quickly folded for the pot to be sent to "MattEMenz"

Player	Chips	Progress
dhimp20	144,826 8,000	8,000
MattEMenz	143,075 142,963	142,963
spinach_kale	126,875 -22,892	-22,892
CoachD	110,984 19,484	19,484
TheSims	86,780 -25,285	-25,285
rumpthumper	57,318 -8,000	-8,000

There were less than two minutes left in Level 24 with blinds at 1,600/3,200 as action was heads up between "Bagels" in the big blind and "Flawlessbinkage," who was on the button.

The board read and "Bagels" checked. "Flawlessbinkage" made a bet of 9,600 and "Bagels" put in a check-raise. "Flawlessbinkage" immediately hit the fold button and their cards disappeared into the virtual muck, earning "Bagels" for a decent increase to their stack.

Despite the lost pot, "Flawlessbinkage" has continued to amass chips and is the chip leader in the tournament by a wide margin with 12 players still remaining.

Player	Chips	Progress
Flawlessbinkage	241,875 50,884	50,884
harveyblicks	136,102 -11,000	-11,000
Bagels	126,533 24,800	24,800
tc_ownz	113,184 7,100	7,100
Jaggyboy13	87,947 -14,500	-14,500
ItsOKman	34,501 -800	-800