SHRPO $5 Million GTD Championship
Level 21: 10,000/20,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining: 38 of 847

Day 2 of the SHRPO $5 Million Guaranteed Championship began with 279 players, only 150 of whom would finish in the money. After 10 levels of play, there were only 38 who survived to reach Day 3, led by Patrick Eskandar with 1,913,000 (96 big blinds).

The field reached the money during Level 14 (the fourth level of the day), though there was no hand-for-hand play on the Money Bubble. When Jim Carroll was eliminated in 152nd place, the tournament staff announced that each table should finish the current hand and stop, as they were on the Money Bubble. But as those in-progress hands played out to conclusion, Ben Eilers was eliminated when his failed to improve against Zo Karim’s .

Speaking of Karim, he was the chipleader down the homestretch for a while at the end of Day 2, until Patrick Eskandar won the final hand of the night to leapfrog into the lead.

1.  Patrick Eskandar  –  1,913,000  (96 bb)
2.  Zo Karim  –  1,740,000  (87 bb)

The full list of official chip counts and seating assignments for the final 38 players will be posted here in the updates within the next hour. The average chip stack is about 669,000 (33 big blinds).

Here is the remaining prizepool at stake:

1st:  $1,000,000
2nd:  $575,000
3rd:  $310,000
4th:  $220,000
5th:  $180,000
6th:  $150,000
7th:  $125,000
8th:  $100,000
9th:  $75,000
10th-12th:  $50,000
13th-15th:  $40,000
16th-18th:  $35,000
19th-21st:  $32,500
22nd-24th:  $30,000
25th-27th:  $27,500
28th-36th:  $25,000
37th-38th:  $22,500

The SHRPO $5 Million Guaranteed Championship resumes tomorrow (Monday) at 12:00 noon ET. Return to SHRPO.com for continuing coverage as the field plays down to the final table.