$5,300 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11:  1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante
Day 1B Players Remaining:  155 of 527

Day 1B comes to an end with 155 players remaining, and the chipleader appears to be Gary Bolden, who bagged 395,000.

The full list of official chip counts will be posted later tonight, but in the meantime, here’s an unofficial preview of the top of the leaderboard:

1.  Gary Bolden  –  395,000  (158 bb)
2.  Alex Nguyen  –  384,500  (154 bb)
3.  Eric Panayiotou  –  347,000  (139 bb)
4.  Paul Koster  –  343,000  (137 bb)

With 543 entries on Day 1A, and another 527 today for Day 1B, the total field size is 1,070, which generated a prizepool worth $5,189,500. The final 134 players will finish in the money, and the top prize is $859,775 plus an extremely cool translucent trophy in the shape of the Seminole Hard Rock’s iconic Guitar Tower.

Here is the full list of payouts:

1st:  $859,775 + SHRPO Guitar Tower Trophy
2nd:  $616,305
3rd:  $399,850
4th:  $295,595
5th:  $223,925
6th:  $180,130
7th:  $148,885
8th:  $118,115
9th-10th:  $87,960
11th-12th:  $68,500
13th-15th:  $53,710
16th-18th:  $43,800
19th-21st:  $36,120
22nd-24th:  $29,840
25th-27th:  $25,790
28th-36th:  $22,625
37th-45th:  $19,515
46th-54th:  $17,385
55th-63rd:  $15,830
64th-72nd:  $14,685
73rd-81st:  $13,600
82nd-90th:  $12,560
91st-99th:  $11,520
100th-108th:  $10,485
109th-117th:  $9,500
118th-126th:  $8,515
127th-134th:  $7,530

Day 2 begins tomorrow (Sunday) at 12:00 noon with 317 players remaining from a field of 1,070, and the average chip stack is around 135,000 (54 big blinds). The official Day 2 seat draw will be posted later tonight. Stay tuned to SHRPO.com.