partypoker US Network Online Series (May 31-June 7)

A couple of minutes remain in Level 22 with blinds of 8,000/16,000 and an ante of 2,000. Twenty-two players remain, and an updated list of chip counts has been provided.

Player	Chips	Progress
Carlosw2285	1,167,564 859,558	859,558
MAGAQUADS	865,370 515,495	515,495
plumberboy699	708,318 126,000	126,000
cuser24	696,135 256,946	256,946
misterburns	662,898 89,220	89,220
Sunnyp99	653,494 533,122	533,122
bmweiser	613,319 157,010	157,010
rumpthumper	591,141 3,500	3,500
yolegacy	513,434 70,770	70,770
callmemayb99	460,538 -63,875	-63,875
FooBarBaz	454,295 66,908	66,908
miw210x	447,922 48,000	48,000
golden13	406,515 -224,150	-224,150
schaf4206	323,837 -66,387	-66,387
PayneKilla	319,706 84,185	84,185
humpy40	314,244 258,933	258,933
BobbyBadaBinger	285,792 109,292	109,292
Pokerplaya86	267,192 -229,428	-229,428
Dolemite1977	257,000 168,250	168,250
Payman	256,365 -197,625	-197,625
Bakerslky2812	201,861 -203,500	-203,500
Ryan “TheSims” Hohner	185,060 -483,740	-483,740

In Level 23 with blinds of 10,000/20,000 and an ante of 2,500, "plumberboy699" opened to 40,000 in the cutoff and "cuser24" called on the button. "golden13" three-bet shoved for 253,000 and only "plumberboy699" called.

"golden13":
"plumberboy699":

The flop hit both players, giving ""golden13" top set but leaving them in need of fading a diamond or running queens. They were able to do so as the turn and river completed the runout, earning them the double with a full house and taking them over 500,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
plumberboy699	1,185,993 477,675	477,675
golden13	566,794 160,279	160,279
cuser24	438,912 -257,223	-257,223
PayneKilla	386,897 67,191	67,191

Level 24 has begun and blinds are now 12,000/24,000 with an ante of 3,000. Just 17 players now remain across three tables.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dolemite1977	Busted
BobbyBadaBinger	Busted
miw210x	Busted
Payman	Busted
Pokerplaya86	Busted

In Level 24 with blinds of 12,000/24,000 and an ante of 3,000, "golden13" lost half their stack after a recent double and then proceeded to win a coin flip versus "misterburns" to bring their stack back to around 550,000.

On the very next hand stacks got in preflop with "golden13" in the cutoff having "misterburns" at risk for all of their chips in the big blind.

"misterburns":
"golden13":

The flop came to give "misterburns" a total of 12 outs they needed to fade. The turn was safe, but the river fell quickly behind it to give "golden13" a pair of eights and eliminate them from the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
golden13	984,182 417,388	417,388
misterburns	Busted

Just 15 remain on break with three minutes left in Level 24 (12,000/24,000/3,000). Here's an updated set of chip counts, with "Sunnyp99" having catapulted up to the top of the leader board with a stack of 1.39 million after winning a massive pot against "MAGAQUADS," who was one of the players to have been recently eliminated.

"bmweiser," "plumberboy699," and Ryan "TheSims" Hohner" also have seven-figure stacks with the tournament now six eliminations away from reaching the money.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sunnyp99	1,385,114 731,620	731,620
bmweiser	1,242,849 629,530	629,530
plumberboy699	1,159,993 -26,000	-26,000
Ryan “TheSims” Hohner	1,143,120 958,060	958,060
golden13	990,192 6,010	6,010
yolegacy	826,384 312,950	312,950
humpy40	691,744 377,500	377,500
FooBarBaz	679,652 225,357	225,357
cuser24	512,412 73,500	73,500
schaf4206	437,904 114,067	114,067
PayneKilla	370,397 -16,500	-16,500
Carlosw2285	348,384 -819,180	-819,180
rumpthumper	334,662 -256,479	-256,479
callmemayb99	268,707 -191,831	-191,831
Bakerslky2812	258,486 56,625	56,625

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In Level 25 with blinds of 14,000/28,000 and an ante of 3,500, "Carlosw2285" was eliminated from the tournament just moments after finding a double. Meanwhile, Ryan “TheSims” Hohner has chipped up to 2.6 million and has almost double the stack of anybody else in the tournament.

Eleven players now remain, and hand-for-hand play has begun across the two tables in play until two more eliminations occur and play reaches the money.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan “TheSims” Hohner	2,603,017 1,459,897	1,459,897
Carlosw2285	Busted

In Level 25 with blinds of 14,000/28,000 and an ante of 3,500, "bmweiser" raised all in for 1.25 million in the cutoff. Action folded to "Sunnyp99" in the big blind, who immediately called all in for 418,000.

"Sunnyp99":
"bmweiser":

A queen-high runout of came and "Sunnyp99" scored the double as hand-for-hand play looks to continue into the following level in the coming hands.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sunnyp99	868,728 -516,386	-516,386
bmweiser	830,651 -412,198	-412,198

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