$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  55 of 1,982

A player raised under the gun to 90,000, Jason Hickey moved all in button for 535,000, and Anton Wigg thought for a while before moving all in over the top from the small blind for about 1.5 million. The UTG player folded.

Hickey turned over , and needed his hand to hold to stay alive against Wigg’s .

The board came , and the pocket nines held up for Hickey to win the pot and double up in chips.

Jason Hickey  –  1,240,000  (31 bb)
Anton Wigg  –  1,000,000  (25 bb)

With 55 players remaining from a field of 1,982, the average chip stack is about 1.44 million (36 big blinds). The remaining players are all guaranteed at least $17,000 each, and the field is playing down to the final two tables tonight (16 players).