Level 17 has now begun and blinds have gone up to 3,500/7,000 with an ante of 875. Ninety entries have now been recorded and just 24 players remain. Full chip counts are shown below, with "maniacalmonk" and "miw210x" having become the first two players in the tournament to reach 10 starting stacks, or a half-million in chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
maniacalmonk	552,819 286,657	286,657
miw210x	542,127 211,397	211,397
IReadYrSoul	456,197 189,421	189,421
Brian1962	319,784 118,084	118,084
MyCousinVinny5	245,830 84,965	84,965
Brian "TopCreature" Sherrier	239,703 160,294	160,294
RiverMan	239,340 139,690	139,690
Jon “Jetsfan411” Borenstein	237,486 129,350	129,350
King_Icon	207,811 137,518	137,518
Gohednpopoff	178,491 33,051	33,051
chromeking	171,786 131,286	131,286
Amolg24	143,775 72,325	72,325
odo23	141,451 46,776	46,776
Mike “IIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman	135,954 -60,375	-60,375
Daniel "leinad" Buzgon	126,126 750	750
UFOLDIWIN	126,036 23,713	23,713
RickRahim	91,715 -11,750	-11,750
Ryan "TheSims" Hohner	90,000 -61,176	-61,176
OpenJam	54,344 -143,032	-143,032
Shotcaller777	48,625 48,625	48,625
numbnuts	48,500 -31,305	-31,305
rumpthumper	41,750 -85,194	-85,194
David "TheKing411" Coleman	31,395 -54,488	-54,488
packers467	28,952 -9,936	-9,936