DAY 2 HPT EAST CHICAGO SEAT ASSIGNMENTS

Here's the 94 players returning Sunday at 11am for the Day 2 Restart in the @HPTpoker $1,650 East Chicago Main Event. Mike O'Neill (pictured) leads with a 573,000 stack, followed by Josh Reichard just 1SB back at 570,000, and George Vazanellis is 3rd at 512.000.

Players are listed by last name, by chipcount, and by table/seat assignment. Just click on the tabs and the (...) below to move from once section to the other. All the Day 2 information you can eat.


-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

VAZANELLIS TOPS DAY 1C HPT EAST CHICAGO FIELD

Although his chipstack dwindled a bit during the final hour of play, George Vazanellis still bagged the top stack from the 307 Day 1C entries in the @HPTpoker East Chicago $1,650 Main Event.

Vazanellis was up to more than 620,000 with more than 90 minutes remaining in the flights, but Nick Pupillo and Keith Albers peeled chips from that stack. Vazanellis bagged 512,000 to lead the 50 players making Day 2.

Kevin Theodore (474,000) made a late charge to bag the No. 2 stack, with Peter Kelly (391,000), Henry Zou (389,000) and Pupillo (354,000) rounding out the top five stacks.

Among those who saw their HPT East Chicago hopes fade away today without a Day2Bag was Jake Baumgartner, Matt Shepsky, Mike Sabbia, Craig Casino, Greg Geller, Jill Bryant, Keven Stammen, Ravi Raghavan, Rob Wazwaz, Gary Herstein, Darryl Ronconi, Bryan Skreens, David Larson, Alan Cutler, Ossama Estafanous, Frank Maggio and Mike Shanahan.

Here's the 50 players - from a starting field of 307 - moving on to Sunday.

George	Vazanellis	512,000
Kevin	Theodore	474,000
Peter	Kelly	391,000
Henry	Zou	389,000
Nick	Pupillo	354,000
Keith	Albers	314,000
Chris	Moon	300,000
Steve	Williams	271,000
Jacob	Connely	253,000
Michael	Palo	251,000
Blake	Whittington	250,000
Paul	Welke	249,000
Ben	Grise	248,000
Shawn	Roberts	234,000
Mike	VanderWoude	232,000
Porfinio	Mendez	225,000
Eric	Salazar	219,000
Nikola	Budzakoski	216,000
Bryan	Kerr	215,000
Brett	Cain	212,000
Michael	Koh	206,000
Bill	Dowell	178,000
Zbiginiew	Grad	178,000
Stephan	Nussrallah	167,000
David	McDermott	165,000
Vance	Essak	161,000
Aaron	Johnson	160,000
Greg	Baird	155,000
Ben	Beever	153,000
Paul	Fisher	145,000
Joseph	Saltanovitz	142,000
Jake	Bazeley	131,000
Theodore	Vassios	129,000
Frank	DiFiole	117,000
Joe	Maxwell	116,000
Eddie	Blumenthal	100,000
Howard	Reingold	99,000
Babak	Rahimisaeidi	97,000
Keith	Lutz	92,000
Mateo	Guerrero	88,000
Mark	Morris	77,000
James	Snyder	76,000
Aaron	Massey	71,000
Adam	Asadorian	68,000
Lance	Pacernick	68,000
David	McGowan	63,000
James	Dedin	63,000
Hussain	Sajwani	57,000
James	Grimes	51,000
Penny	Anteney	48,000

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

LUIS SAYS JUST 4 MORE

LuisTheTD has paused the Day 1C scoreboard clock at 8 minutes and announced there's four more hands remaining in the final flight of the HPT East Chicago $1,650 Main Event.

We'll be back in about 25 minutes with final Day 1C chipcounts. About an hour after that shall appear the Day 2 Seat Assignments.

Coverage continues tomorrow at 11am with the beginning of the Day 2 Restart.

Level - 15
Ante - 4k
Blinds - 2k/4k
Entries - 60/307

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

SCREECHING HALT

That smell of burning rubber is the brake pedals being jammed on very hard in the tournament area, play grinding to a halt, players tightening up immensely in the last 20 minutes, working to secure a Day2Bag in Day 1C of the HPT East Chicago Main Event.

Few pots are making it to a turn, a big percentage not even getting out a flop.

Level - 15
Ante - 3k
Blinds - 1500/3k
Entries - 60/307

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

SATURDAY'S FINAL COUNTDOWN

There's seven full tables still in action as the final 40 minutes of Day 1C begins in the HPT East Chicago Main Event.

All players with chips remaining at the end of this level bag up their stacks, advancing to Sunday's 11am Day 2 Restart. NOTE the starting time, folks.

Here's the 20 players who advanced from Day 1A
Here's the 24 players who advanced from Day 1B

Level - 15
Ante - 3k
Blinds - 1500/3k
Entries - 63/307

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

STAY OUT OF THE WAY OF VAZANELLIS

There's an open to 6,500 from George Vazanellis, a call from Aaron Johnson and a third challenge, the BB, also comes along to the flop.

   is spread by the dealer, and Vazanellis fires 21,000, enough to get a snap-fold from Johnson, but the challenger doesn't budge, putting his own 21,000 out there.

Both players check the , the challenger checks the  river and Vazanellis reaches for more grey 5k chips, firing six more across the felt. About 30 seconds pass and a call is made.

Vazanellis shows Ace_Jack, flopped top pair and rivered two pair.

The challenger? ... Ace_Queen ... rivered by the owner of chips.

Vazanellis moves to 620,000.

Level - 13
Ante - 2400
Blinds - 1200/2400
Entries - 72/307

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

ALBERS ELIMINATES TO

David To (pictured) has been grinding a short stack of chips all day and night long in Day 1C of the HPT East Chicago Main Event. All in FTA for his last 51,000, action folds around the Kevin Albers in the BB who asks for a count, pauses, then calls.

• King_Queen for To
• Sevens for Albers

5-9-8-A-3 goes the board and To departs midway through Level 13.

Level - 13
Ante - 2400
Blinds - 1200/2400
Entries - 80/307

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

VAZANELLIS CLAIMS ANOTHER

There's three levels remaining in Day 1C of the HPT East Chicago Main Event and chipleader George Vazanellis is almost the overall 3-flight chipleader right now.

A short-ish stacked player moved all-in on a 2-3-4 flop and Vazanellis called.

• Fives for the challenger
• Jacks for the chipleader

7-4 goes the board, MORE chips to Vazanellis and he leaves on break with a total of an almost-obscene 520,000 - aka 217BB when action resumes.

When play resumes, action moves to
Level - 13
Ante - 2400
Blinds - 1200/2400
Entries - 86/307

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

THE WRIGHT HAND WINS

Two players make it through to the river, Spencer Wright leading out and getting a call from his challenger.

Wright turns his hand over and the challenger just stares, doesn't show his cards, and stares some more at the      board, wondering where he went wrong as he looks at a King in his hand and mucks.

What did Wright have?

 , a straight flush on the turn ... #HeGood

Level - 12
Ante - 2k
Blinds - 1k/2k
Entries - 99/307

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

VAZANELLIS RUSHES TO THE TOP

Player after player at Table 7 is shipping their chips across the felt to new chipleader George Vazanellis in Day 1C of the HPT east Chicago $1,650 Main Event.

The recent elimination by Vazanellis of Jill Bryant propelled Vazanellis to 345,000 as Level 11 is drawing near its end. he is about 100k clear of anyone else in the field right now.

Level - 11
Ante - 1600
Blinds - 800/1600
Entries - 111/307

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

WAZWAZ ELIMINATED

A few hands after losing most of his stack, former HPT East Chicago champ Rob Wazwaz is in for his last 8BB with K-5 .. and he runs in to one challenger who overshoves with Queens.

A-2-T-2-A goes the board and this main event comes to an end for Wazwaz midway through Day 1C's level 11.

Level - 11
Ante - 1600
Blinds - 800/1600
Entries - 117/307

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

GRISE SENDS A SHORT STACK HOME

Ben Grise is the only player to give action to a short-stack player moving in after only looking at one card (can anyone say, 'Ace,'), so up go the cards in this 42,000 pot.

• Sevens for Grise
• Ace .... drumroll as the player oh-so-slowly peels his second card ... 6

Oops.

J-J-8-J-4 goes the board and Grise adds to his stack, moving to 85,000 as Level 11 begins.

Level - 11
Ante - 1600
Blinds - 800/1600
Entries - 120/307

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

$190,312 TO HPT EAST CHICAGO CHAMP

That's a wrap on registration for all three flights in the @HPTPoker East Chicago Main Event, the final number on the scoreboard showing 579 total entries. The players created a prize pool of $833,760, paying 63 places, with the winner earning $186,812 plus a $3,500 HPT Season XV Championship package.

Here's Sunday and Monday's scheduled payouts.



Level - 10
Ante - 1200
Blinds - 600/1200
Today's Entries - 307
Total Entries - 579

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

307 FOR DAY 1C

Registration has closed on the third and final starting flight in the @HPTpoker East Chicago Main Event and the scoreboard shows 307 entires for this flight, one of the largest single-entry flights HPT has ever recorded in a $1,650 buy-in.

Play continues tonight until the end of Level 15 at about 11:45pm when the Bag-n-Tag takes place for everyone who still has chips. Those players return Sunday at 11am (note the starting time, folks), for the Day 2 Restart, playing down to the 9-handed final table.

The Pay Table is due shortly.

Level - 10
Ante - 1200
Blinds - 600/1200
Entries - 307

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

JUST BEFORE DINNER BREAK CHIPCOUNTS

Chris Moon remains atop the chipcount-leaderboard a few minutes before players in the final starting flight of the @HPTpoker $1,650 East Chicago Main Event head out for their hour-long dinner break.

Here's a look at estimated chipcounts just before break.

Chris	Moon	220,000
Steve	Williams	210,000
Nick	Pupillo	180,000
Greg	Geller	105,000
Alan	Cutler	105,000
Steve	Fox	105,000
Harold	Evans	95,000
Shawn	Roberts	85,000
Ben	Grise	78,000
Mike	VanderWoude	70,000
Jake	Bazeley	70,000
Jake	Baumgartner	66,000
Blake	Whittington	65,000
Mark	Morris	60,000
Ossama	Estafnous	60,000
David	To	56,000
Keith	Lutz	53,000
Henry	Zou	47,000
Aaron	Johnson	44,000
Jill	Bryant	42,000
Frank	Maggio	41,000
Nick	Blackburn	41,000
Darryl	Ronconi	40,000
Greg	Baird	40,000
Bryan	Skreens	35,000
Aaron	Massey	35,000
Ravi	Raghavan	32,000
Gary	Herstein	28,000
Keven	Stammen	26,000
Pratap	Golla	23,000
Rob	Wazwaz	21,000
David	McGowan	15,000
Alex	Ziskin	11,000
Andy	Rogowski	0
David	Larson	0
Mike	Shanahan	0
Jerold	Saeman	0
Matt	Shepsky	0
Craig	Casino	0
Xunchang	Wang	0
James	Pupillo	0
Mike	Sabbia	0

Level - 9
Ante - 1000
Blinds - 500/1000
Entries - 300

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

ONYI CALLS FOR HIS CARD

Down to just 6BB, Amalim Onyi gets his chips in the middle and draws one challenger early in Level 9 of the HPT East Chicago Main Event.

•   for Onyi
•   for his challenger

Deuce on the flop should seal-the-deal on the 2-4-7 flop, amirite?

The turn is  and Onyi calls out for his four-outer 6 to stay alive.

River  ... 

Onyi gets back to 1/2 of a starting stack.

Level - 9
Ante - 1000
Blinds - 500/1000
Entries - 294

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

LAST LEVEL FOR REGISTRATION

This is the last active level for players to enter, or re-enter, the HPT East Chicago $1,650 Main Event. The field is up to 290 entries today, with registration staying open through the dinner break, closing when Level 10 begins at about 7:30pm.

The Main Event Pay Table is going to be available shortly after registration closes.

Level - 9
Ante - 1000
Blinds - 500/1000
Entries - 290

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

MOON LANDS ON 200K MARK

Chris Moon has been on a serious run today, moving now to the top of the leaderboard at 230,000 - aka 288BB - early in Level 8 of the final starting flight in the $1,650 @HPTpoker East Chicago Main Event.

Moon - winner of the 570-entry HPT East Chicago Main Event last May for $187,399 - is 5th on the Season XV Player of the Year leaderboard.

Nick Pupillo, sitting atop the Player of the Year leaderboard, is making his own heater-of-a-run today, up to 145,000 now.

Level - 8
Ante - 800
Blinds - 400/800
Entries Today - 283
Total Entries So Far - 557

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

GELLER ELIMINATES JAMES PUPILLO

Greg Geller is a familiar face of the @HPTPoker tour, but mostly from playing at @gates_poker in Black Hawk, Co tournaments.

He's ventured a wee bit out of his tournament-home comfort zone today, landing at Ameristar East Chicago for Day 1C of the $1,650 Main Event.

We just saw James Pupillo stacked up and slide his chips across the felt to Geller, departing as Geller stacked up a 100k total of towers.

Level - 7
Ante - 600
Blinds - 300/600
Entries - 270

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

BIG STACKS EMERGING

A handful of players are the new members of Club 100k in today's Day1C of the HPT East Chicago $1,650 Main Event.

Bill Dowell has added to his stack, moving up to 185,000 midway through Level 7 and staying atop the leaderboard.

Here's a look at other 6-figure stacks we found on a tour of the second-floor tournament area.

Bill	Dowell	185,000
Steve	Williams	165,000
Chris	Moon	150,000
Alan	Cutler	120,000
Steve	Fox	115,000
Mark	Morris	100,000

Level - 7
Ante - 600
Blinds - 300/600
Entries - 26

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live

LEVEL 6 CHIPCOUNTS

Bill Dowell tops the chipcount-leaderboard as players in Day 1C of the @HPTpoker East Chicago Main Event head off for their second 15-minute break of the day.

There's a hour-long dinner break after Level 9 - starting at about 6:30pm and wrapping up around 7:30pm when Level 10 begins and registration closes.

Here's a quick look at chipcounts from across the vast tournament area.

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Bill	Dowell	145,000
Chris	Moon	130,000
Steve	Fox	115,000
Mark	Morris	100,000
Nick	Pupillo	70,000
Jill	Bryant	60,000
Keith	Lutz	54,000
Jake	Bazeley	48,000
Frank	Maggio	44,000
Darryl	Ronconi	42,000
Andy	Rogowski	41,000
James	Pupillo	40,000
Gary	Herstein	37,000
Mike	VanderWoude	37,000
Ben	Grise	37,000
Ravi	Raghavan	35,000
David	Larson	35,000
David	McGowan	35,000
Pratap	Golla	35,000
Jake	Baumgartner	32,000
Greg	Geller	31,000
Matt	Shepsky	30,000
Nick	Blackburn	29,000
Blake	Whittington	29,000
Xunchang	Wang	29,000
Jerold	Saeman	29,000
Craig	Casino	27,000
Keven	Stammen	27,000
Shawn	Roberts	27,000
Alan	Cutler	26,000
Aaron	Massey	26,000
Mark	Morris	25,000
Rob	Wazwaz	22,000
Ossama	Estafnous	21,000
Bryan	Skreens	19,000
Greg	Baird	19,000
Henry	Zou	17,000
David	To	13,000
Alex	Ziskin	12,000
Aaron	Johnson	12,000
Harold	Evans	10,000
Mike	Shanahan	0
Mike	Sabbia	0

When play resumes, action moves to

Level - 7
Ante - 600
Blinds - 300/600
Entries - 257+

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Media Live