Championship: Farid Jattin and Shannon Shorr Lead the Final 16 Players at the Break

$5,300 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26:  50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining:  16 of 1,070

Chipleader Farid Jattin has 6,775,000 (90 big blinds).

The players have returned from break to begin Level 26, with increased blinds of 50,000-75,000 with a 75,000 ante. Here are the official chip counts from the break:

TABLE 7
Seat 1.  Omer Rotman  –  1,775,000  (24 bb)
Seat 2.  Shannon Shorr  –  6,700,000  (89 bb)
Seat 3.
Seat 4.  Farid Jattin  –  6,775,000  (90 bb)
Seat 5.  Mike Leah  –  2,625,000  (35 bb)
Seat 6.  David Pham  –  3,100,000  (41 bb)
Seat 7.  Asher Conniff  –  2,550,000  (34 bb)
Seat 8.  Asher Neaman  –  2,850,000  (38 bb)
Seat 9.  Joel Harwood  –  1,775,000  (24 bb)

TABLE 8
Seat 1.  Philipe Pizzari Pinto  –  2,150,000  (29 bb)
Seat 2.  Kitty Kuo  –  1,025,000  (14 bb)
Seat 3.  Koray Aldemir  –  3,625,000  (48 bb)
Seat 4.  Jim Collopy  –  1,825,000  (24 bb)
Seat 5.
Seat 6.  James Mendoza  –  2,800,000  (37 bb)
Seat 7.  Ryan Riess  –  1,175,000  (16 bb)
Seat 8.  Natasha Mercier  –  900,000  (12 bb)
Seat 9.  Nadya Magnus  –  1,150,000  (15 bb)

Here are the remaining 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:  $43,800

And here are the recent eliminations:

17th:  Darren Elias  –  $43,800
18th:  Francis Margaglione  –  $43,800

19th:  Mike Jozoff  –  $36,120
20th:  Justin Liberto  –  $36,120
21st:  Alexander Stewart  –  $36,120

With 16 players remaining from a field of 1,070, the average chip stack is around 2,675,000 (36 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $43,800 each.

There will be a one-hour dinner break after this level, around 8:24 pm, and action will continue tonight until there are nine players remaining for tomorrow’s final table, scheduled to begin at 12:00 noon.

Shannon Shorr