In Level 29 with blinds of 25,000/50,000 and an ante of 6,250, a trio of eliminations has just occurred to bring the field down to nine, and hand-for-hand play is once again in effect with one elimination needed before the tournament reaches the final table.

Player	Chips	Progress
PartyPanic	Busted
Yong "IReadYrSoul" Kwon	Busted
jaehoez24	Busted

In Level 28 with blinds of 20,000/40,000 and an ante of 5,000, all of the chips went into the middle between "dadadada", who was under the gun and at risk for their tournament life against "jaehoez24" in the small blind.

"dadadada":
"jaehoez24":

"jaehoez24" took a commanding lead after connecting with the flop , but just as quickly found themselves drawing dead as the turn gave "dadadada" a set of tens. The river completed the runout and the pot of 1.3 million was sent to "dadadada", leaving "jaehoez" with under 400,000 after the lost coin flip.

Player	Chips	Progress
dadadada	1,318,678 544,834	544,834
jaehoez24	392,533 -621,844	-621,844

Play is now in Level 27 with blinds of 18,000/36,000 as the tournament has reached a five-minute break. Just 13 players remain after the recent elimination of "THECOOPER007", and a complete list of update counts has been provided below.

Player	Chips	Progress
KevinDurant	2,187,062 905,280	905,280
RobertJordan	1,717,181 321,715	321,715
PartyPanic	1,365,639 -75,894	-75,894
ndirish50	1,357,400 786,615	786,615
Derek "pompii" Sudell	1,321,511 1,173,260	1,173,260
jaehoez24	1,014,377 -274,004	-274,004
Adam "jchimpo56" Karten	895,432 160,000	160,000
John "Slapshot1085" Forlenza	875,200 -56,116	-56,116
Anthony "supremetny" Chin	788,148 1,000	1,000
Yong "IReadYrSoul" Kwon	786,820 181,202	181,202
dadadada	773,844 -175,500	-175,500
Edsebo	747,934 249,454	249,454
upayformypennys	269,452 108,964	108,964
THECOOPER007	Busted

In Level 26 with blinds of 16,000/32,000 and an ante of 4,000, Adam "jchimpo56" Karten opened to 96,000 under the gun and received a call from Anthony "supremetny" Chin in the cutoff. "dadadada" three-bet jammed for 388,000 on the button and action folded back to Karten, who called. Chin then folded and the two hands in play were tabled in preparation for the runout.

"dadadada":
Adam "jchimpo56" Karten:

"dadadada" found themselves with four more cards to fade as the flop and turn gave Karten a possible backdoor gutshot straight draw, but "dadadada" wound up being the one to improve as the river completed the runout, giving them top set and more importantly, a pot of nearly 950,000 to go along with it.

Less fortunate was "MoZZyNJ", who moments earlier was eliminated in 15th.

Player	Chips	Progress
dadadada	949,344 610,008	610,008
Anthony "supremetny" Chin	787,148 518,712	518,712
Adam "jchimpo56" Karten	735,432 178,880	178,880
MoZZyNJ	Busted

In Level 25 with blinds of 14,000/28,000 and an ante of 3,500, Yong "IReadYrSoul" Kwon opened to 56,000 under the gun and action folded around to "KevinDurant", who called in the small blind. "KingofNJ" was already all in for their last 14,000 in the big blind. A bet from Kwon on the flop folded out "KevinDurant" and the two remaining players' hands were shown.

"KingofNJ":
Yong "IReadYrSoul" Kwon:

"KingofNJ" was unable to catch another spade as the turn and river completed the runout and they were eliminated in 17th place as a result.

Before the table could break upon reaching the final two tables of 16, "jaehoez24" eliminated "joey1way" on an adjacent table when their pocket tens held versus ace-five in an all-in preflop situation, and 15 now remain.

Player	Chips	Progress
jaehoez24	1,288,381 656,495	656,495
Yong "IReadYrSoul" Kwon	605,618 259,208	259,208
joey1way	Busted
KingofNJ	Busted

In Level 25 with blinds of 14,000/28,000 and an ante of 3,500, seven eliminations have occurred in rapid-fire succession to bring the field down to 17, where just one more knockout is needed to reach the final two tables. Here's a look at those who have fallen since the bubble burst.

Player	Chips	Progress
chen718	Busted
reyd182	Busted
JoC23	Busted
UberNoober	Busted
Chips_Jammed	Busted
Bornstar75	Busted
SadBigCheese	Busted

In Level 24 with blinds of 12, 000/24,000 and an ante of 3,000, Sanjeev "sandman9876" Datta was down to his last 16,000 and called the last of it off from the small blind after "PartyPanic" put him all in from the cutoff.

Sanjeev "sandman9876" Datta:
"PartyPanic":

The runout came , leaving the situation completely unchanged after Datta missed his backdoor flush draw to be eliminated in 27th place. Shortly thereafter, "pup33" was also eliminated and just one more knockout is needed for the tournamenet to make it into the money. Hand-for-hand play is in effect across the four remaining tables until that happens.

Player	Chips	Progress
PartyPanic	1,065,913 167,546	167,546
Sanjeev "sandman9876" Datta	Busted
pup33	Busted