Championship: Farid Jattin Leads the Final Five at the Break with 12,125,000

$5,300 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 30:  100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante
Players Remaining:  5 of 1,070

Farid Jattin

In the last hand of Level 29, Omer Rotman raised from the hijack to 325,000, Kitty Kuo called from the button, and Farid Jattin reraised from the big blind to 1,750,000. Rotman and Kuo both folded, and Jattin took the pot.

The players left for their 15-minute break, and when they return, the blinds will increase to 100,000-200,000 with a 200,000 ante. Here are the official chip counts from the break:

Seat 1.  Kitty Kuo  –  8,900,000  (45 bb)
Seat 2.  Shannon Shorr  –  6,125,000  (31 bb)
Seat 3.  Farid Jattin  –  12,125,000  (61 bb)
Seat 4.  Omer Rotman  –  11,000,000  (55 bb)
Seat 5.  Jim Collopy  –  5,175,000  (26 bb)

And here are the final table payouts:

1st:  $859,775 + SHRPO Guitar Tower Trophy
2nd:  $616,305
3rd:  $399,850
4th:  $295,595
5th:  $223,925

6th:  Koray Aldemir  –  $180,130
7th:  Nadya Magnus  –  $148,885
8th:  Mike Leah  –  $118,115
9th:  Philipe Pizzari Pinto  –  $87,960

With five players remaining from a field of 1,070, the average chip stack is around 8,550,000 (43 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $223,925 each.