$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
End of Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining: 12 of 153

After 17 levels of play, the 153-entry $1,650 no-limit hold’em purple chip bounty is down to its final 12 players and is led by Aleksandr Gofman, who finished the day with 627,000 in chips.

He holds a massive chip lead over the rest of the field with his closest competitors nearly 300,000 chips behind him. Michael Stashin (357,000), Pablo Mariz (348,000) and Myles German (331,000) are the only other players above the 300,000-chip mark.

Four-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Brian Hastings comes into the second and final day as the short stack with 101,000, while Mathieu Selides is on the verge of his second final table of the series. He finished runner-up to Dragos Iosub in the $570 no-limit hold’em last Wednesday.

They burst the bubble late in the day and the top 20 spots earned at least $2,142. The final 12 players are all guaranteed a cash of at least $3,596 and $500 for every player they knockout, but the eventual winner will walk away $41,120 and one of the last Hard Rock trophies to be awarded this series.

Cards will get back in the air on Monday at 2 p.m. Here is a look at the seating arrangement of the final 12 players:

Table 1

Seat 1: Mathieu Selides – 237,000
Seat 2: Brian Hastings – 101,000
Seat 3: Pablo Mariz – 348,000
Seat 4: Paula Alibrandi – 124,000
Seat 5: Daniel Pearlman – 201,000
Seat 6: Frank Logodich – 312,000

Table 2

Seat 1: Aleksandr Gofman – 627,000
Seat 2: Myles German – 331,000
Seat 3: Michael Stashin – 357,000
Seat 4: Kurt Lichtman – 135,000
Seat 5: Peter Mancini – 134,000
Seat 6:  David Levi – 154,000

Here are the payouts thus far:

13th: Randall Emmett – $3,098
14th: Jose Reyes – $3,098
15th: Kenneth Ray – $3,098
16th: Daria Feshchenko – $2,616
17th: Franklin LaCava – $2,616
18th: Lawrence L’Hommedieu – $2,616
19th: Jason Tedeschi – $2,142
20th: Julio Marines – $2,142