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