Event 3: Guifang Liu in Control as the Final Nine Bag

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Returning to Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 Ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 105

Guifang Liu

Short stack Jorge Bello Fuentes was eliminated in 10th place, and the nine finalists played through the end of Level 14 before bagging up for the night. They’ll return to settle the score on Day 2.

Here’s the remaining lineup:

Seat 1: Gavin O’Rourke – 155,000 (52 bb)
Seat 2: Guifang Liu – 471,500 (157 bb)
Seat 3: Kirk Morrison – 111,000 (37 bb)
Seat 4: Matt Affleck – 126,500 (42 bb)
Seat 5: Wenhao Ying – 93,000 (31 bb)
Seat 6: Scott Levitt – 112,000 (37 bb)
Seat 7: Derek Sudell – 117,500 (39 bb)
Seat 8: Carlos Guerrero – 35,500 (12 bb)
Seat 9: Andre Crooks – 57,500 (19 bb)

10th place: Jorge Bello – $2,783
11th place: Sean Perry – $2,783
12th place: Ira Schwartz – $2,783
13th place: Dantonio Brown – $2,468
14th place: Robert Gianquitti – $2,468

Everyone left is guaranteed to earn at least $3,150, with a trophy and a top prize of more than 10 times that amount reserved for the winner.

Play resumes Monday at 2 p.m.