Championship: Josh Kay Leads the Field at the Break with 858,000

$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 13:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining:  414 of 1,982

Josh Kay
Josh Kay

The players return from break to begin Level 13, with increased blinds of 2,000-4,000 with a big blind ante of 4,000.

With about 414 players remaining from a field of 1,982, the average chip stack is about 191,000 (48 big blinds). The final 248 players will finish in the money, earning at least $6,275 each.

A scan of the field during the break turned up six players with at least 600K in chips, and one more knocking on the door, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Josh Kay  –  858,000  (215 bb)
2.  Ken Weinstein  –  734,000  (184 bb)
3.  Athanasios Polychronopoulos  –  704,000  (176 bb)
4.  Bin Weng  –  700,000  (175 bb)
5.  Jeremy DeGrenier  –  684,000  (171 bb)
6.  Lazaro Hernandez  –  643,000  (161 bb)
7.  Jesse Lonis  –  596,000  (149 bb)

There will be a 90-minute dinner break after Level 16 (about 6:35 pm), and action is scheduled to continue tonight until the end of Level 20, around 12:20 am.