Championship: Jeremy Ausmus Leads the Field at the Break with 2,145,000

$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  122 of 1,982

Jeremy Ausmus
Jeremy Ausmus

The players returned from break to begin Level 19, with increased blinds of 10,000-15,000 with a big blind ante of 15,000.

With 122 players remaining from a field of 1,982, the average chip stack is about 650,000 (43 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $7,815 each.

A scan of the field during the break turned up nine players with at least 1.3 million in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Jeremy Ausmus  –  2,145,000  (143 bb)
2.  Josh Kay  –  1,890,000  (126 bb)
3.  Matt Higgins  –  1,845,000  (123 bb)
4.  Jake Ferro  –  1,830,000  (122 bb)
5.  James Carroll  –  1,690,000  (113 bb)
6.  Chad Himmelspach  –  1,415,000  (94 bb)
7.  Yuriy Kozinskiy  –  1,385,000  (92 bb)
8.  Michael Gathy  –  1,315,000  (88 bb)
9.  Ricky Flach  –  1,305,000  (87 bb)

Action is scheduled to continue tonight until the end of Level 20, around 12:45 am.