The final 39 players are on their last 15-minute break of the night. Upon their return, two more levels of 40 minutes apiece will be played to their completion to finish play for the night.
Level: 13
Blinds: 2,000/3,000
Ante: 3,000
Chad Brown saw action fold to him in the hijack and opened to 8,000. Justin Zaki called in the small blind and the big blind defended, taking three-way action to a flop of 
.
Zaki checked and the big blind bet 20,000. Brown asked how much he had left and the player told him not much, moving his hands to display 7,000 behind. Brown took one more look at his cards and then shot them to the middle of the felt face-down, putting action back onto Zaki, who raised and received an all-in call for less.
"You're gonna win," said the all-in player as he turned over 
. Zaki tabled [jts] and was already well ahead.
The turn 
gave Zaki the nuts and the river completed the runout to make the hand official, earning him the pot and the knockout, and he now a few tall piles of chips totaling about 350,000, which is the largest stack in the room at present moment.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
350,000
195,000
|
195,000 |
|
105,000
-48,000
|
-48,000 |
The field is now down to 32 players and just four full tables remain with 10 minutes remaining in the penultimate level of the evening. Dapo Ajayi and Mark Hodge are among the most recent batch of eliminations.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
287,000
37,000
|
37,000 |
|
271,000
89,000
|
89,000 |
|
270,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
247,000
-38,000
|
-38,000 |
|
227,000
115,000
|
115,000 |
|
209,000
112,000
|
112,000 |
|
115,000
-41,000
|
-41,000 |
|
|
110,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
95,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
||
|
95,000
64,000
|
64,000 |
|
80,000
-78,000
|
-78,000 |
|
|
80,000
17,500
|
17,500 |
|
65,000
-35,000
|
-35,000 |
|
|
55,000
-28,000
|
-28,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
All of the chips got into the middle preflop between Ian Smith in the cutoff and his opponent in the hijack.
Hijack: 
Ian Smith: 
"Aces versus ace-king," said another player at the table. The flop 
prompted more of a reaction from the table before everything got silent for the turn 
. Things only stayed quiet for a moment, however, as the river 
came to give Smith Broadway and earn him the pot.
The hijack's stack was counted to be 149,000, while Smith's was just beyond that at 166,000. As a result, he earned the knockout and now has a stack north of 300,000 going into the final 40-minute level of the night.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
322,000
322,000
|
322,000 |
Level: 14
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
Level 14 has just begun, coming with an announcement that it is the final level of the night. With 29 players left, the clock will be stopped at 10 minutes for a yet-to-be-determined number of hands to play to their conclusion; but if four eliminations happen before that, a hard stop will occur should the field reach 25 before the end of the level.
The bicentennial mark was nearly reached in Wednesday's Event #3: $360 NLH With $100 Bounties, as 196 entries generated a total prize pool of $40,180. When all was said and done, Patrick Michael and Andrew Dykeman agreed to a heads-up chop with Michael taking the top prize of $9,003 and Dykeman earning $7,886.
A trio of Jacksonville residents in Louis De Pasquale, Andrew Simmonds, and Trammell Evans took the next three places, with Lee Pohle, Shane Scorza, and Russell Dugger also making it to the final table. All eight earned at least a four-figure payday for their efforts.
In total, 25 places were paid for the event, with Michael Smith Jr. being the first to make it past the bubble to earn $301 before payouts jumped to $372 and increased every three places until the final table of nine was reached.
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patrick Michael | Sanford, North Carolina | $9,003* |
| 2 | Andrew Dykeman | Destin, Florida | $7,886* |
| 3 | Louis De Pasquale | Jacksonville, Florida | $4,118 |
| 4 | Andrew Simmonds | Jacksonville, Florida | $2,505 |
| 5 | Trammell Evans | Jacksonville, Florida | $1,935 |
| 6 | Lee Pohle | Newland, North Carolina | $1,603 |
| 7 | Shane Scorza | Tampa, Florida | $1,366 |
| 8 | Russell Dugger | Brunswick, Georgia | $1,181 |
*Denotes heads-up deal.
Huilin Chen was down to his last 28,000 and open-shoved from the cutoff. Ken Stacy was on the button and called after asking for the amount and receiving confirmation, prompting two quick folds behind to bring about the runout.
Huilin Chen:
Ken Stacy: 
Chen quickly rolled over his bullets and Stacy acknowledged, saying that Chen was ahead but that he had "the aces cracker."
The flop 
certainly gave him a shot, one that would become even more real on the turn 
after he picked up two pair. Chen was unable to find an ace or counterfeit paired board to reimprove on the river 
and was eliminated from the tournament, standing up and making his way from the tournament area as the pot was shipped to Stacy.
Twenty-seven players now remain with 25 minutes remaining in the level. The tournament clock will be paused in 15 minutes or two eliminations, whichever comes first.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
248,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
|
|
Busted |
