Championship: Dinner Break Until 8:03 pm EST; Official Chip Counts

$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  16 of 1,573

Level 26 came to an end, and the players took a one-hour dinner break. Action is scheduled to resume at 8:03 pm, and they will be playing tonight until the end of Level 29, around 12:45 am.

With 16 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 3.93 million (66 big blinds), and they are guaranteed to earn at least $40,895 each.

Here are the official chip counts from the dinner break:

TABLE 1
Seat 1.  Tsz Shing  –  5,465,000  (91 bb)
Seat 2.  Ronnie Bardah  –  7,200,000  (120 bb)
Seat 3.  Manuel Labandeira  –  1,685,000  (28 bb)
Seat 4.  Jesse Lonis  –  4,495,000  (75 bb)
Seat 5.  James Anderson  –  3,715,000  (62 bb)
Seat 6.  Robel Andemichael  –  6,640,000  (111 bb)
Seat 7.  Francis Margaglione  –  3,075,000  (51 bb)
Seat 8.  Carlos Dorca  –  6,590,000  (110 bb)

TABLE 2
Seat 1.  Richard Pyne  –  2,010,000  (34 bb)
Seat 2.  Darren Elias  –  3,845,000  (64 bb)
Seat 3.  Esther Taylor  –  3,335,000  (56 bb)
Seat 4.  Paul Balzano  –  1,645,000  (27 bb)
Seat 5.  Andy Hwang  –  2,520,000  (42 bb)
Seat 6.  Ilyas Muradi  –  2,720,000  (45 bb)
Seat 7.  Albert Barney, Jr.  –  4,810,000  (80 bb)
Seat 8.  Matt Bond  –  3,170,000  (53 bb)

And here is a list of the players who have recently been eliminated, along with their payouts:

17th:  Scott Stewart  –  $33,455
18th:  Sean Shah  –  $33,455
19th:  Jonathan Lagace Bastien  –  $33,455
20th:  Carlo Rodriguez  –  $33,455
21st:  Jorge Gomez  –  $27,660
22nd:  Justin Liberto  –  $27,660
23rd:  Ali Ahmad  –  $27,660
24th:  Scott Baumstein  –  $27,660