$3,500 WPT Poker Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  72 of 2,290

The players have returned from break to begin Level 23, with increased blinds of 20,000-40,000 with a 40,000 ante.

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

1.  Andrew Ostapchenko  –  4,000,000  (100 bb)
2.  Sridhar Sangannagari  –  3,855,000  (96 bb)
3.  Jeff Madsen  –  3,565,000  (89 bb)
4.  Bin Weng  –  3,395,000  (85 bb)
5.  James Anderson  –  3,010,000  (75 bb)

With 72 players remaining from a field of 2,290, the average chip stack is around 1,590,000 (40 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $14,400 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.