In Level 19 with blinds of 5,000/10,000 and an ante of 1,250, Dan "mj23style" Sewnig raised to 22,000 in the hijack and "Borgatcha" three-bet jammed for Sewnig's effective stack of 231,850. Sewnig found a call to send the two off to the races.

Dan "mj23style" Sewnig:
"Borgatcha":

Sewnig was not ahead for long as the flop came to give his opponent a pair of kings. The turn was of no avail, and the river was just as useless towards keeping Sewnig alive in the tournament, and he took 12th place as a result. Just one more elimination is needed for play to reach the money.

Player	Chips	Progress
Borgatcha	651,364 208,515	208,515
Dan "mj23style" Sewnig	Busted

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In Level 18 with blinds of 4,000/8,000 and an ante of 1,000, "deerpathdave" jammed for 107,000 in the cutoff and was called by "pay4medsch00l" in the big blind.

"deerpathdave":
"pay4medsch00l":

"deerpathdave" found a helpful flop of , giving them a double gutshot straight draw and nut flush draw in addition to three overcard pair outs. The turn left them sweating, but the river came to complete the straight draw and score them the lucky double.

Less fortunate was "jaehoez24", who was eliminated on the other table simultaneously by "njpokeraa". "shaggydo" and Matt "MattEMenz" Mendez were also eliminated at the end of last level, and the trio of eliminations brings the field down to 13. Three more bust outs are needed for the tournament to make it into the money.

Player	Chips	Progress
njpokeraa	621,250 96,582	96,582
pay4medsch00l	475,589 -132,921	-132,921
deerpathdave	225,342 42,331	42,331
shaggydo	Busted
Matt "MattEMenz" Mendez	Busted
jaehoez24	Busted

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Level 17 has begun with blinds of 3,500/7,000 and an ante of 875 and just 16 players remain across two tables. "Gohednpopoff" has a slight chip lead over "pay4medsch00l", with "SnashuaJ" and "njpokeraa" also having over 500,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gohednpopoff	620,172
pay4medsch00l	608,510 312,086	312,086
SnashuaJ	557,476
njpokeraa	524,668 82,203	82,203
Borgatcha	442,849 262,337	262,337
Karibou	411,047 74,193	74,193
BoozeHound	375,830 240,390	240,390
Cara2Cacra	320,483
Ryan "simlSgg" Hagerty	297,830 88,690	88,690
Daniel "centrfieldr23" Lupo	295,325 130,300	130,300
deerpathdave	183,011
Dan "mj23style" Sewnig	143,050 47,804	47,804
Brian "TopCreature" Sherrier	129,921 -87,235	-87,235
Matt "MattEMenz" Mendez	128,827 -24,000	-24,000
shaggydo	120,073 -102,590	-102,590
jaehoez24	90,928 -37,443	-37,443

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In Level 16 with blinds of 3,000/6,000 and an ante of 750, all of the chips went into the middle with "SugarJ" at risk in the big blind for their last 20 big blinds against "Karibou", who was in middle position.

"SugarJ":
"Karibou":

"SugarJ" found their position improve as the flop gave them top pair, top kicker and left "Karibou" with just two outs to the knockout. Unfortunately for "SugarJ", one of those two came on the turn and they did not hit find their own in return on the river to result in their elimination at the expense of "Karibou", who now has 336,000 after taking down the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Karibou	336,854
SugarJ	Busted

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In Level 15 with blinds of 2,500/5,000 and an ante of 625, Stanton "Stonniepokes" Tentnowski open-jammed in the hijack for 39,000 and received a call from Matt "MattEMenz" Mendez, who was in the small blind.

Stanton "Stonniepokes" Tentnowski:
Matt "MattEMenz" Mendez:

Tentnowski failed to connect on the runout as Mendez unnecessarily improved to a pair of deuces and earned the pot and the knockout, leaving Tentnowski momentarily dry on chips as he quickly re-entered for what could be one final shot at a run in the tournament in the closing minutes of the registration period.

Player	Chips	Progress
Matt "MattEMenz" Mendez	152,827 5,931	5,931
Stanton "Stonniepokes" Tentnowski	Busted