At the level's start, 29 players remained from a starting field of 307. The entire chip counts at first of the extent can be found at the chip counts page. Approximate counts will appear here updated within the level. A WHOLE breakdown of the prizewinners so far and the entire payout structure is at the prize structure page.
Blinds:Level 15: 2,000-4,000 (400 ante)Level 16: 2,500-5,000 (500 ante).
9pm: Overnight chipsThe full chip count for the remainder 17 players is at the chip count page.
8.45pm: How they wentPhew. After some to-ing and fro-ing once they were right down to 19, eventually two went out on one hand. Three players were all in pre-flop, and the player with the worst hand had the largest stack. The hands were:
Kaspars Renga: A♣A♠Kimmo Kurko: Q♣Q♥Andrius Tapinas: T♦T♥
In chips, Tapinas covered Kurko who covered Renga.
Kurko decided to play his PokerStars Blog One Time Chip™ here, and who could blame him. Tapinas, however, kept his in it cellophane wrapper, and that proved to be the wisest policy. The flop came 2♦6♠T♠ and the turn 9♥ and river 4♥ helped nobody. Kurko and Renga were knocked out. Tapinas goes into tomorrow. As do we.
A full wrap will follow, however the key info is that this: there are 17 players left and James Keys of serious Britain is on the chip lead. He has 442,000, with Michael Fardan second, with 372,000.
8.40pm: Two busted, day overDetails to come.
8.25pm: EliminationsJoachim Buch was the 19th player to fall, leaving us one wanting the tip of the day. The entire list of prizewinners is at the prizewinner's page. We've recently said goodbye to:
21 - Timo Peri, Finland22 - Robert Lundh, Sweden23 - Peter Eastgate, Denmark24 - Sigurd Eskeland, Norway25 - Raigo Aasmaa, Estonia26 - Joel Sallinen, Finland27 - Heiki Laja, Estonia28 - Eduards Rakuss, Latvia
8.20pm: Another one for KeysWhen you are a dominant chip leader, you'll take a flier with pocket fives and lots of times you'll finally end up knocking someone out. So it proved when James Keys had 5♦5♣ and Joachim Buch had J♦9♠. They got all of it in pre-flop and the board ran T♥3♣6♥2♣A♠ and Buch read no more.
8.10pm: All the way down to 18No, we are not there yet. However the recently-announced tournament schedule is that we're playing all the way down to 18 players tonight and to a winner tomorrow.
8.05pm: Eastgate outThe World Champion has left the Baltics. Well, not the entire region yet, but his participation within the Baltic Festival is finished. He limped from the button, and Johan Nilsson called from the small blind, with Patrik Kaltrud checking the massive. The flop came A♠kc]3♣ and after the 2 blinds checked, Eastgate made a small bet, which only Nilsson called. The turn was 4♦ and it went check, bet, call again. And the river was 5♠, which Nilsson checked again. Eastgate pushed and Nilsson called instantly. He had A♣2♠ for the straight and Eastgate mucked. That may be that.
8pm: ChipsThose long-awaited new chip counts are in, and they are within the usual place, that is the chip count page. James Keys is far ahead, with Michael Fardan on his shoulder and Thomas Partridge not much further back.
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7.50pm: Another one downThe day 1b chip leader Aleksandr Lozkin is out. He's made the money, but it is a min cash, after he moved all in for his last 40,000 or so with A♦T♣ and was in kicker trouble against Patrik Kaltrud's A♣J♠. He had a royal flush draw to cut at the flop of T♥J♥Q♥ but turn and river were dry and Lozkin departed.
7.45pm: Back!The remaining 29 players are back, down now to four tables. There is a World Champion among them, let's not forget.
Full chip counts are on their way. Within the meantime, spend a while with Tony G, who was preparing for the High Roller event when our video blog team caught up with him.
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