Championship: Andy Hwang Leads the Final Nine Players at the Break

$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 29:  50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante
Players Remaining:  9 of 1,573

Andy Hwang
Chipleader Andy Hwang

The players return from break to begin Level 29, with increased blinds of 50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante. This will be the last level of the night, and action should end around 1:00 am.

With nine players remaining, the average chip stack is about 7.0 million (70 big blinds), and they are guaranteed to earn at least $79,455 each. Here are the official chip counts from the break:

TABLE 1
Seat 1.
Seat 2.  Ronnie Bardah  –  5,625,000  (56 bb)
Seat 3.
Seat 4.  Jesse Lonis  –  11,825,000  (118 bb)
Seat 5.
Seat 6.  Robel Andemichael  –  7,000,000  (70 bb)
Seat 7.  Francis Margaglione  –  4,575,000  (46 bb)
Seat 8.  Carlos Dorca  –  425,000  (4 bb)

TABLE 2
Seat 1.
Seat 2.
Seat 3.  Tsz Shing  –  7,625,000  (76 bb)
Seat 4.
Seat 5.  Andy Hwang  –  12,525,000  (125 bb)
Seat 6.  Ilyas Muradi  –  7,875,000  (79 bb)
Seat 7.  Albert Barney, Jr.  –  4,450,000  (45 bb)
Seat 8.

When there are seven players remaining, they will redraw for random seats at the final table.