Level 23

Level 22 ended with some fireworks between Mike Kalfa and Mr. Bensonhurst. Kalfa had been showing down nothing but monsters and was in another pot with AKh. Mr. B (who has been big leaguing every decision, every hand) decided to put his tourney life on the line with ducks. A deuce hit the flop but Kalfa picked up a wheel draw and a flush draw on the turn. A useless King on the river and he was crippled. Mr. B also picked up his first official warning when he decided to do combo chicken dance-mosh with the player in seat 4.

We're down to 19 players. ~91k average stack and the blinds are 15k/30k/5k.

Update: That didn't take very long. Two short stacks were battling on separate tables trying to add $2k to their bankroll, the difference between 18th and 19th. Table 1 shorty found a late double up then quadruple up to squeak into the final 18.

Last 18 show up tomorrow at 11am and play down to the $500,000+ payday for first.

Now I think I saw the craps tables sitting right outside the poker room.