Event 1: Jamhour Moves Up Top; McQuellon and Mahtani Big Stacks

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Level 20: 10,000/20,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining: 98 of 4,756
Average Stack: 673,000 (34 big blinds)

Qasem Jamhour

Players returned from their second break of the day with less than 100 players remaining. Qasem Jamhour went on break with 1.7 million and promptly moved himself over 2 million shortly after coming.

Ryan McQuellon is not far behind at all and Ravi Mahtani is making a bid to join them over 2 million.

They will play two more hour-long levels before going on a 40-minute dinner break.

Million chip stacks:

Qasem Jamhour – 2,100,000 (105 bb)
Ryan McQuellon – 2,000,000 (100 bb)
Ravi Mahtani – 1,700,000 (85 bb)
Gail Erlichman – 1,550,000 (78 bb)
Joseph Villatico – 1,500,000 (75 bb)
Marco Cantizani – 1,500,000 (75 bb)
Gerald Fehr – 1,377,000 (69 bb)
Kenneth Hick – 1,350,000 (68 bb)
Travis Hart – 1,345,000 (67 bb)
Richard Hutchings – 1,305,000 (65 bb)
A. Chak – 1,300,000 (65 bb)
Steven McKoy – 1,040,000 (52 bb)