With our hard-working field reporters doing a quick buzz around the tournament floor, here are the players that are sitting over the 200,000-chip mark.
Steven Goosen - 250,000
John Dolan - 250,000
Trevor Vanderveen - 230,000
Christopher Gonzales - 229,000
Martin Jacobson - 225,000
Allen Stern - 218,000
Andrew Margolis - 200,000
"Yes!"
"C'mon Celts!"
"Whoo hooo!"
These are just some of the noises being unleashed by the players - and many spectators - that are still alive in Event #30.
It's not due to a bad beat or a lucky river, but some basketball game between a yellow side and a green side.
We believe it's a semi-important game . . . but are not quite sure . . .
Get back in your seats and play some poker!
Christopher Gonzales has just soared up the leaderboard after eliminating an opponent after all the chips went in preflop.
Gonzales: 
Opponent: 
The board ran out 
to see Gonzales send his opponent packing while climbing to 370,000 in chips.
Philipp Gruissem opened to 14,500 and both James Adams and Terence Keratsopoulos made the call.
The flop fell down 
and Keratsopoulos moved all in for 44,800 as Gruissem passed, only to have Adams make the call.
Keratsopoulos: 
Adams: 
The turn landed the to give Adams a straight and leaving Keratsopoulos needing to pair the board to stay alive.
Unfortunately for Keratsopoulos, the river peeled the 
to see him head to the rail as Adams climbed to 210,000 in chips.
For those that aren't near a TV - and following on from my earlier post - the yellow team won the basketball match.
One spectator shed a tear and another punched the wall . . . not sure why, but it must have something to do with the importance of the match.
Pierre Neuville found himself all in preflop against Stephane Lacasse.
Neuville: 
Lacasse: 
Neuville called heads and flipped a US quarter to see George Washington give him a wink as the board ran out 
to see Neuville double through to 228,000 as Lacasse slips to 53,000 in chips.
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
The next round of eliminated opponents are all taking home $3,878 in prizemoney.
100 - Christopher Giddings
101 - Angela Jordison
102 - Wallace Matsumoto
103 - Steven Burkholder
104 - Jedidiah Hoffman
105 - Linda Fredericks
106 - Scott Eskenazi
107 - Brent Thomas
108 - Chris Dombrowski
109 - Darryll Fish
110 - Donald Belanger
111 - Darren Wong
112 - Larry Loose
113 - Fatolla Shahen
114 - Walter Harris
115 - Steve Frasure
116 - Carder England
117 - Paul Schulze
118 - Patrick Karschamroon
119 - Martin Debruhl
120 - Shaun Beasley
121 - William Looper
122 - Joseph Cappuccio
123 - John Bardwell
124 - Bahador Ahmadi
125 - Tyler Cornell
126 - Nikolai Sears
127 - empty
128 - Daniel Marcotte
129 - Francis Anderson
130 - Ace Nguyen
131 - David Daneshgar
132 - Steve Connally
133 - Chris Miller
134 - Matt Stout
135 - John Rapacz
Stephen Foutty found himself all in preflop holding 
against Ken McKay's 
.
The board ran out 
to see Foutty hit the rail and McKay climb to 220,000 in chips.
Eric Nakache open-shoved for his last 43,700 and was called by Steven Goosen.
Nakache:
Goosen: 
The 
flop put Nakache squarely in the lead, and after the 
and landed on the turn and river, he doubled through to 90,000 as Goosen slipped to 190,000 in chips.
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