Championship: Joost Schippers Leads the Field After Dinner with 1,671,000

$3,500 LHPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prizepool: $3,718,400  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Live Stream
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  148 of 1,162

Joost Schippers
Chipleader Joost Schippers

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

1.  Joost Schippers  –  1,671,000  (167 bb)
2.  Vitalijs Zavorotnijs  –  1,329,000  (133 bb)
3.  Yingui Li  –  1,244,000  (124 bb)
4.  Julian Pineda Lozano  –  1,164,000  (116 bb)
5.  Ryan Hoenig  –  1,128,000  (113 bb)
6.  Kharlin Sued  –  1,122,000  (112 bb)
7.  Niall Costigan  –  1,072,000  (107 bb)

With 148 players remaining from a field of 1,162, the average chip stack is around 393,000 (49 big blinds). The final 146 players will finish in the money, with a min-cash worth $6,400.

Action will continue tonight until the end of Level 20 (around 12:20 am).