Level 17 has now begun and blinds have gone up to 3,500/7,000 with an ante of 875. Ninety entries have now been recorded and just 24 players remain. Full chip counts are shown below, with "maniacalmonk" and "miw210x" having become the first two players in the tournament to reach 10 starting stacks, or a half-million in chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
maniacalmonk	552,819 286,657	286,657
miw210x	542,127 211,397	211,397
IReadYrSoul	456,197 189,421	189,421
Brian1962	319,784 118,084	118,084
MyCousinVinny5	245,830 84,965	84,965
Brian "TopCreature" Sherrier	239,703 160,294	160,294
RiverMan	239,340 139,690	139,690
Jon “Jetsfan411” Borenstein	237,486 129,350	129,350
King_Icon	207,811 137,518	137,518
Gohednpopoff	178,491 33,051	33,051
chromeking	171,786 131,286	131,286
Amolg24	143,775 72,325	72,325
odo23	141,451 46,776	46,776
Mike “IIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman	135,954 -60,375	-60,375
Daniel "leinad" Buzgon	126,126 750	750
UFOLDIWIN	126,036 23,713	23,713
RickRahim	91,715 -11,750	-11,750
Ryan "TheSims" Hohner	90,000 -61,176	-61,176
OpenJam	54,344 -143,032	-143,032
Shotcaller777	48,625 48,625	48,625
numbnuts	48,500 -31,305	-31,305
rumpthumper	41,750 -85,194	-85,194
David "TheKing411" Coleman	31,395 -54,488	-54,488
packers467	28,952 -9,936	-9,936

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In Level 16 with blinds of 3,000/6,000 and an ante of 750, "millertime4244" opened to 15,000 in early position and Daniel "leinad" Buzgon three-bet jammed for 55,000 in middle position. Action folded back to "millertime4244" and they called.

Daniel "leinad" Buzgon:
"millertime4244":

Buzgon needed to fade an ace in order to double and was able to do so as the board ran out . Moments later "millertime4244" lost their remaining stack and was eliminated from the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel "leinad" Buzgon	125,376 -133,449	-133,449
millertime4244	Busted

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Level 14 is underway with blinds of 2,000/4,000 and an ante of 500. Eighty-three entries have now been recorded and 33 players currently remain. Full chip counts from all 33 players have been provided below.

Player	Chips	Progress
miw210x	330,730 330,730	330,730
IReadYrSoul	266,776 141,844	141,844
maniacalmonk	266,162 205,855	205,855
Daniel "leinad" Buzgon	258,825 216,180	216,180
Brian1962	201,700 201,700	201,700
OpenJam	197,376 111,213	111,213
Mike “IIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman	196,329 146,449	146,449
millertime4244	168,024 99,955	99,955
MyCousinVinny5	160,865 14,350	14,350
anthonely	157,895 108,015	108,015
Ryan "TheSims" Hohner	151,176 101,176	101,176
Modaddy41	146,574 -18,050	-18,050
Gohednpopoff	145,440 92,719	92,719
rumpthumper	126,944 9,000	9,000
golden13	118,497 49,550	49,550
Jon “Jetsfan411” Borenstein	108,136 108,136	108,136
RickRahim	103,465 48,401	48,401
UFOLDIWIN	102,323 21,100	21,100
RiverMan	99,650 -26,340	-26,340
odo23	94,675 54,865	54,865
David "TheKing411" Coleman	85,883 26,983	26,983
numbnuts	79,805 79,805	79,805
Brian "TopCreature" Sherrier	79,409 57,048	57,048
Amolg24	71,450 -12,496	-12,496
King_Icon	70,293 14,294	14,294

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In Level 13 with blinds of 1,800/3,600 and an ante of 450, action folded to the hijack before a five-way limped pot ensued. The flop came and three checks put action onto "Moledaddy41" in the cutoff, who bet 9,000. "golden13" was next to act on the button and raised to 39,000. Action folded back to "Modaddy41," who jammed for 71,000 and was quickly called.

"golden13":
"Modaddy41":

"golden13" had their sights set on a bounty with top pair, top kicker but ran it into "Modaddy41's" overpair of kings. A couple of bricks on the turn and river completed the runout and "Modaddy41" earned the double to take their stack up to 164,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Modaddy41	164,624 164,624	164,624
golden13	68,947 -23,503	-23,503

In Level 12 with blinds of 1,600/3,200 and an ante of 400, there was 30,400 in the middle on a flop reading . "rumpthumper" had checked in middle position and action was back on them, facing a bet of 12,000 from "KingKong24," who was in the cutoff.

"rumpthumper" check-jammed for 50,000 and "KingKong24" called all in for less.

"KingKong24":
"rumpthumper":

"KingKong24" saw the bad news and was in need of hitting a queen or running hearts to double. The turn eliminated running flush outs, but added the possibility of a chop should a nine come to bring a straight on the board. Instead, a clean came and "rumpthumper" scored the pot and the bounty.

Player	Chips	Progress
rumpthumper	117,944 117,944	117,944
KingKong24	Busted

Play has entered Level 11 with blinds of 1,400/2,800 and an ante of 350, and several players listed below are no longer found in the tournament. Before that, a list of players that have collected more than one bounty has also been provided.

Player	Chips	Progress
BOONYANI	Busted
BoozeHound	Busted
YipYeaYs	Busted
Michael "Gags30" Gagliano	Busted
sri100k	Busted
Casbro	Busted
Slapshot1085	Busted

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