Championship: Shannon Shorr Leads the Final Nine Players with 12.4 Million; Final Table Begins at 12:00 Noon EDT

$5,300 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 28:  75,000/125,000 with a 125,000 ante
Players Remaining:  9 of 1,070

Shannon Shorr
Chipleader Shannon Shorr

The final nine players have bagged and tagged their chips for tomorrow’s final table, which begins at 12:00 noon EDT as part of the SHRPO Big 4.

Here is the lineup with their official chip counts:

Seat 1.  Philipe Pizzari Pinto  –  2,550,000  (20 bb)
Seat 2.  Kitty Kuo  –  1,550,000  (12 bb)
Seat 3.  Shannon Shorr  –  12,425,000  (99 bb)
Seat 4.  Nadya Magnus  –  3,325,000  (27 bb)
Seat 5.  Mike Leah  –  1,550,000  (12 bb)
Seat 6.  Koray Aldemir  –  3,500,000  (28 bb)
Seat 7.  Farid Jattin  –  8,575,000  (69 bb)
Seat 8.  Omer Rotman  –  5,525,000  (44 bb)
Seat 9.  Jim Collopy  –  4,025,000  (32 bb)

It’s worth noting that Jim Collopy finished as the runner-up in this event last year, earning $614,775, and chipleader Shannon Shorr won a SHRPO Big 4 event two years ago, earning $186,261.

With nine players remaining, the average chip stack is around 4,750,000 (38 big blinds). Action will begin at the start of Level 28, with blinds of 75,000-125,000 with a 125,000 ante. Levels will be 90 minutes until heads-up play, when they drop to 60 minutes each.

Here are the remaining payouts at stake:

1st:  $859,775 + SHRPO Guitar Tower Trophy
2nd:  $616,305
3rd:  $399,850
4th:  $295,595
5th:  $223,925
6th:  $180,130
7th:  $148,885
8th:  $118,115
9th:  $87,960

Return to SHRPO.com tomorrow at 12:00 noon EDT for our final table coverage.