Play has moved into Level 18 with blinds of 2,500/5,000 and an ante of 625 and Dan "AvaGray" Lupo was just eliminated from the tournament, taking 28th place after his ace-queen fell to ""ACE"10276"'s pocket kings, who sits second in chips behind "shipitshell".

Christopher "Chalmisi6" Hill was also eliminated shortly thereafter, as was "toddchipman", and chip counts from all 26 remaining players have been provided below with just five more eliminations needed for play to reach the money.

Player	Chips	Progress
shipitshell	366,636
"ACE"10276	299,839
Bliatz	272,499
Stanton "Stonniepokes" Tentnowski	229,431
NEIRB2021	188,364
monkeyman067	179,387
IGOTCRABZ_33	178,310
st0neydanza	158,053
Drunk Spew	156,450
vigman@135	142,209
Iraisepros	126,512
jordanofpkr	111,960
Daniel "loxonbagel" Buzgon	111,501
Jake "MoZZyNJ" Dynes	110,401
coldandwarm	108,515
polkaking11	105,843
nuttedd	103,781
Angel "Chr0meKing" Lopez	97,038
OtB_RedHeron	93,750
talanchi	93,626
Steven "FadeOrHoldz" Madara	82,086
Jaime "moosedeer17" Reyes	79,794
iFoldN0T	76,813
JohnnyMania	73,800
pompii23	63,542