Event 1: Dinner Break Until 7:33 pm; Ross Johnson Leads with 2,455,000

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 24:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  85 of 3,730

Ross Johnson
Chipleader Ross Johnson

Level 23 came to an end, and the players left for their 40-minute dinner break. Action is scheduled to resume around 7:33 pm.

With 85 players remaining from a field of 3,730, the average chip stack is about 880,000 (29 big blinds). The remaining players are all guaranteed at least $1,670, and the next pay jump is $1,800 for 81st place.

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

1.  Ross Johnson  –  2,455,000  (82 bb)
2.  Willy Stadele  –  2,355,000  (79 bb)
3.  Brandon Noe  –  2,110,000  (70 bb)
4.  Michael Schwartz  –  2,075,000  (69 bb)
5.  Curtis King  –  2,015,000  (67 bb)