$5,300 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  18 of 1,070

Philipe Pizzari Pinto raised under the gun to 130,000, Kitty Kuo called from UTG+1, and James Mendoza moved all in from the cutoff for 1,535,000.

Pinto used one of his Time Chips to tank for nearly a minute before he called, and Kuo quickly folded.

Mendoza turned over , and needed to improve to stay alive against Pinto’s .

The board came , and Mendoza paired his ace on the flop to win the pot and double up in chips.

James Mendoza  –  3,350,000  (56 bb)
Philipe Pizzari Pinto  –  1,665,000  (28 bb)

With 18 players remaining from a field of 1,070, the average chip stack is around 2,380,000 (40 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $43,800 each.

There will be a one-hour dinner break after Level 26, around 8:20 pm, and action will continue tonight until there are nine players remaining for tomorrow’s final table, scheduled to begin at 12:00 noon.