$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  17 of 1,573

Manuel Labandeira raised from the hijack to 110,000, Francis Margaglione called from the button, Albert Barney, Jr. called from the small blind, and Richard Pyne moved all in from the big blind for 720,000.

Labandeira called, and Margaglione and Barney both folded.

Pyne turned over , and he needed it to hold to stay alive against Labandeira’s .

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

Richard Pyne  –  1,710,000  (34 bb)
Manuel Labandeira  –  2,670,000  (53 bb)

With 17 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 3.7 million (74 big blinds), and they are guaranteed to earn at least $33,455 each.

There will be a one-hour dinner break after this level (around 6:45 pm), and action is scheduled to continue tonight until the end of Level 29, around 12:30 am.