EVENT #17 - END OF DAY

Things really began to crawl over the last two levels of play. The stacks in relation to the blinds meant that no one really had to put themselves at risk with pushy preflop moves. We only lost a few players since the last break and 34 players will now return at 2pm tomorrow to continue through to the money and beyond.

The player most unhappy about the day ending would be Dean Hamrick. On the shortstack, he was encouraging his table mates to get moving so he could get doubled or get moving. When he finally got in a spot to add chips, he found himself in a 3-way allin pot holding 66 versus AA and KJsoooted. The river brought a flush to the KJd hand, a straight to Hamrick, and the AA finished third in the hand. Hamrick had the guy covered by just 4,600 and play was ended for the day. He implored the floor staff to deal one more hand but the decision was made.

As the players were bagging their chips we picked up a few counts along the way in addition to the 4,600 Hamrick stack. The chip leader in the clubhouse appears to be Chris Dombrowski with 406,800. Matt "All in at 420" Stout finished the day very comfortable with 287,300. Bill Gazes comes back to 54,500 in chips and Jeff Coutroulis with 81,900.

Play will start with 30 minutes remaining in Level 13. Blinds will be at 1,500-3,000 and 300 ante. The average chip stack is around 125,000.

Back tomorrow as they play down to the $107,100 first place.