The tournament has moved into Level 27 with blinds of 10,000/20,000 and an ante of 2,500, and in the blink of an eye, a quarter of the field has been eliminated. Most recent of them was Derek "pompii" Sudell, who jammed all in with and was unable to get there against the of "l23weeeeeeeee".

Others who were eliminated before Sudell were Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken, "kfbackflip", and Dan "mj23style" Sewnig.

Meanwhile, Daniel "centrfieldr23" Lupo now finds himself holding a narrow chip lead over both Kevin "sofcknsick" Campbell and "l23weeeeeeeee". A complete list of chip counts has been provided below.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel "centrfieldr23" Lupo	761,702 491,546	491,546
Kevin "sofcknsick" Campbell	723,664 387,967	387,967
l23weeeeeeeee	691,179 216,326	216,326
Michael "UFOLDIWIN" St. John	655,402 423,260	423,260
RiverMan	531,530 239,315	239,315
chen718	384,374 106,250	106,250
Matthew "gailums" Gailums	302,476 3,637	3,637
Angel "chromeking" Lopez	254,421 27,500	27,500
Chris "rumpthumper" White	208,329 119,243	119,243
Orson "borgatcha" Young	203,310 252,169	252,169
kgkg510	199,722 2,181	2,181
Jon "Jetsfan411" Borenstein	162,891 190,624	190,624