$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 8: 250/500/50 ante

Levels have just gone up, and we’re now at blinds of 250/500/ 50 ante for 60 minutes. Play will end tonight when the final table is reached or 3am, whichever comes first. Odds are good that we’re probably in for another long one.

Some notables still in the field:

Darryll Fish
Matt Stout
Eric Panayiotou
Joseph Kuether
Evan Teitelbaum

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 7: 200/400/50 ante

Joe Kuether puts out a bet of 4500 on a flop and Jonathan Brody goes all-in over the top from the button for a lot more. After some deliberation, Kuether mucks his hand. Brody tells Kuether that he made the correct fold, but Kuether undoubtedly would have rather won the pot uncontested.

We’re at Level 7 of play , average stack is 35K. 51 players left.

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 6: 150/300/25 ante

Players are currently on a 30 minute break. When the 57 remaining players return, they’ll be playing level 7: 200/400/ 50 ante. Average stack is 31K. Here are some of the top chip counts during the break, with Jeff Coutroulis the current chip leader:

Jeff Coutroulis 75,125
A. Nonymous 70,425
Francis Collins 70,200
Evan Teitelbaum 68K
Rubens Tarzia 64,050

Coutroulis

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 6: 150/300/25 ante

There are now 66 players left out of the 118 entrants in today’s Event 16, with blinds now at 150/300/ 25 ante. Average stack is about 27K.

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 5: 100/200/25 ante

Some recent tweets from a few of the bustouts from Event 16.

And we busted the 6-max – 76 < 108ss on 5548ss for a lot – Gonna miss the flicker conversations

— Stewart Newman (@stnewman) August 27, 2014

Busted QQ to AA for 35bb, main Thursday

— Ian O'Hara (@ianohara2) August 26, 2014

Busted the 6 max pre ante. Off to the food trucks to drown my sorrows with an Elvis burger and chicken and waffles. Hope @PakmanMMA approves

— Daniel Buzgon (@WiLDmAn_75) August 26, 2014

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 5: 100/200/25 ante

The field stands at 81 players halfway through Level 5 and Even Teitelbaum continues to lead the way with 73,450 while some big name pros are not having a good day.

Notable chips counts:

Evan Teitelbaum – 73,450
Matt Stout – 40,500
Daniel Weinman – 35,025
Corey Burbick – 34,075
Elliott Zaydman – 33,725
Bruno Kawuti – 28,775
John Dolan – 22,825
Mukul Pahuja – 19,550
Tony Ruberto – 17,400
Tyler Reiman – 16,925
Darren Elias – 13,275
Jared Jaffee – 12,500
John Racener – 12,050
Darryll Fish – 6,150
Matt Glantz – 4,500

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 5: 100/200/25 ante

Double belly buster draws are a rare and wonderful thing at the table, we saw one early in the day and had another one at the same table.

Brian Wachs shoved all-in with the board reading and Eric Panayitou took his time making a decision.

Wachs tried talking about the hand with Panayitou but was warned by the dealer.

“I’ll just give him the People’s Eyebrow instead,” Wachs said before staring him down.

Panayitou called, just barely have Wachs covered, with for the double belly buster with bonus flush outs against top pair. More than half the deck was good for Panayitou and he explained this to Wachs just as the dealer popped the on the turn to complete the straight draw. He locked up the hand to send Wachs out and move up to 30,000.

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 5: 100/200/25 ante

Registration has closed for the big buy-in freeze-out and the final tally is 118 players in the field. The $200,000 guarantee was easily reached, we will report prizepool and payout information after the numbers are crunched.

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 3: 100/200

Paul McCaffery’s day wasn’t going well from the start with less than half his starting stack coming back from the break. He moved all-in for his final 2,700 with the board reading .

August Grothe was the only one who looked him up with the old double belly buster draw . McCaffery was holding middle pair then fell behind on the turn. He was still alive with full house outs but blanked the to go out early.