With just seven minutes left in the level the final 24 players continue playing. There are three tables left in play and the goal is to play down to a final table of eight or the end of Level 18, which will be around midnight.
The three table redraw usually happens at 24 players, but the near simultaneous eliminations of Shawn Buchanan and Mike Watson brought us down to 23. Here's how they stack up after the redraw:
On the feature table the action was folded to John Juanda in the small blind who raised to 196,000. Sam Trickett was seated in the big blind and he assumed that Juanda was all in with this move.
Juanda was not all in and had 79,000 chips behind, something which Trickett found out about moments after he announced a call.
The two players agreed to go all in blind because both were not folding and Juanda had Trickett covered by just 7,000 chips.
Trickett:
Juanda:
The board ran out and Trickett was knocked out. The open spot at the table was taken by Jeff Gross and that makes for a very interesting feature table.
Dan Shak raised to 25,000 from the cutoff and Steve O'Dwyer three-bet from the small blind to 75,000. Shak did not waste any time and called after we saw the flop.
The flop brought and O'Dwyer bet out 93,000 and Shak moved all in almost immediately. O'Dwyer folded and Shak picked up this pot.
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