Championship Day 1B: Joseph Cheong Bags the Overall Chip Lead

$5,250 SHRPO Championship (Single Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
End of Level 10:  1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 132 of 413

Joseph Cheong
Joseph Cheong Holds the Chip Lead Entering Day 2

Day 1B of the $5,250 SHRPO Championship drew 413 entries, setting the total field size at 809. The prize pool is set at $3,923,650 and the final 102 players will finish in the money. A min-cash pays $7,925, while first place is worth $698,175.

Bagging the largest stack of the 132 survivors on Day 1B was Joseph Cheong.  He bagged 514,000 and will carry the overall chip lead of the 270 total players remaining into Day 2.

Cheong and Tom Boivin were far and away the chip leaders in the final stretch of the day, but Cheong scored a late elimination when his flush draw cracked Sheddy Siddiqui’s kings to eclipse the half-million chip mark. Boivin is second in chips with 476,500.

Day 2 begins Sunday at noon. Full chip counts and the Day 2 table and seat draw will be posted later tonight.