$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  51 of 2,290

The players have returned from break to begin Level 25, with increased blinds of 30,000-60,000 with a 60,000 ante.

A scan of the field during the break turned up seven players with at least 3.5 million in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Andrew Moreno  –  7,895,000  (132 bb)
2.  Natasha Mercier  –  7,420,000  (124 bb)
3.  Bin Weng  –  7,365,000  (123 bb)
4.  Andrew Ostapchenko  –  4,655,000  (78 bb)
5.  Sridhar Sangannagari  –  4,380,000  (73 bb)
6.  Leo Taffe  –  3,775,000  (63 bb)
7.  Jeff Madsen  –  3,660,000  (61 bb)

With 51 players remaining from a field of 2,290, the average chip stack is around 2,245,000 (37 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $19,100 each.

Action is scheduled to continue tonight until the field is down to the final two tables (16 players). When the field is down to 40 players, blind levels will increase to 90 minutes.