$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 17: 1,500/3,000/500 Ante

Only 44 players remain in the Championship from the starting 766 entrants and 285 that returned for Day 2. Shawn Nguyen spent long portions of the second day with the chip lead and comes in today as the only player over 1 million.

The plan for Day 2 is grinding away until we have 18 players remaining and those will come back tomorrow to play down to the final table nine.

Players are unbagging their chips and about to get things underway.

Day 3 returning chip counts
Day 3 returning table and seat assignments

1st: $568,687
2nd: $330,912
3rd: $202,224
4th: $166,682
5th: $134,816
6th: $110,304
7th: $88,243
8th: $67,408
9th: $46,573
10-12th: $30,640
13-15th: $22,061
16-18th: $15,197
19-27th: $12,991
28-36th: $11,521
37-45th: $10,295