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In early position, Jason Mann moved all in for about 83,000 chips, and was called by John Reinhold in middle position.
Mann showed 
and Reinhold tabled 
.
The board spread 
and Reinhold slipped to 41,000 chips. Mann is now up to 170,000.
Manuel Davidian opened for 18,000 from the cutoff and had two opponents shove all in after him -- one on the button (for 140,000), and another from the big blind (for 150,000). Davidian quickly called, tabling .
"Phil Hellmuth's book told me to call here," he cracked.
He was up against 
and 
. The board came 
, and Davidian had knocked out two opponents. He catapults to 617,000.
50 players remain.
There are two women still in the field -- Stacy Matuson-Taylor and Brigitte Korak.
There are also two players named Mann. In fact, they have the same first name, too -- Jason. We've found out the middle name of one -- Aaron -- so they can be distinguished in the chip counts.
Level: 18
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
An announcement was just made that, in fact, we are not going to play through Level 19 tonight (as indicated earlier), but will be stopping at the end of Level 18.
A small cheer went up at that news from the tables. We are now taking a five-minute break to color up some chips, and then on to that last one-hour level.
Stacy Matuson-Taylor had slipped back to 55,000 when she open-raised all in from middle position. Manuel Davidian called from the cutoff, the button and blinds got out, and the players tabled their cards:
Matuson-Taylor 
Davidian
The flop was good for Matuson-Taylor -- . The turn and river worked out for her, too -- 
-- and she doubles back to 110,000. Davidian still has 240,000.
From under the gun, Ryan Jones moved all in for about 89,000 chips and Ilya Andreev called on the button.
Showdown
Andreev:
Jones: 
Without help from the 
board Jones is out of the tournament.
Jason Mann raised to 15,500 from late position, and an opponent reraised all in for 47,000 from the big blind. Mann called, tabling 
to his opponent's 
. The board came 
, and Mann slipped to 72,000.
"I'm bad at these flip things," said Mann afterward. But a hand shortly afterward proved otherwise.
In that one, Jeffrey Chu opened with a raise to 14,000 from the cutoff, and it folded to Mann who reraised all in for 55,000 from the big blind. Chu called, showing 
to Mann's . Not quite a flip, perhaps. In any event, Mann ended up better off this time, as the board came 
, giving him a full house.
Mann is back up to 155,000 now.
Scott Montgomery opened the pot in the small blind and Benjamin Zamani moved all in from the big. Montgomery called.
Showdown
Montgomery:
Zamani:
The board ran out 
and Zamani is out of the tournament. Montgomery is now up to 210,000 chips.
Had kind of an interesting situation over on Table 371 going on a little while ago involving an Australian player named Andrew Batey.
As he had been explaining to his table, he's subject to especially heavy taxes once he exceeds winning a prize of $5,000 plus his buy-in. Just now we were at the $5,292 level for bustouts (64th-72nd), and in fact Batey would stand to net more (he said) if he went out at that stage than he would at the following level that paid $6,306 (55th-63rd).
Thus did Batey -- who, it should be added, was short-stacked anyway -- shove all in blind a couple of times while we still had more than 63 players left, his justification being that he'd make more going out at that point than at the next level.
The first time he shoved from early position, and it folded to James Kilarjian in the big blind who called with 
. Batey tabled . The flop came 
, and Batey looked like he was going out at his desired level. But the turn was the 
and the river the , and he'd doubled up. (Kilarjian now has 187,000.)
Soon he was all in again with and up against an opponent's pocket eights. The board came 
, and Batey survived again!
Now that we are down to 63 players, he's stopped with the shoving, and currently sits with 35,500.
