Event 15: Michael Nye Leads the Final Three with 51.1 Million

$600 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 39:  500,000/1,000,000 with a 1,000,000 ante
Players Remaining:  3 of 4,259

Ricardo Velasco and Michael Nye and Juan Endara
From left to right: Ricardo Velasco and Michael Nye and Juan Endara

The players returned from break to begin Level 39, with increased blinds of 500,000-1,000,000 with a 1,000,000 ante.

The action has been relatively slow, but Michael Nye has slowly built up his stack to more than 50 million in chips. Here are the official chip counts from the break:

Seat 1.  Ricardo Velasco  –  16,900,000  (17 bb)
Seat 2.  Michael Nye  –  51,100,000  (51 bb)
Seat 3.  Juan Endara  –  17,100,000  (17 bb)

With three players remaining, the average chip stack is about 28.4 million (28 big blinds). Here are the final table payouts:

1st:  $365,605 + Showdown trophy
2nd:  $236,300
3rd:  $172,250

4th:  Bradley Coultas  –  $133,050
5th:  Evan Teitelbaum  –  $100,730
6th:  Ian O’Hara  –  $74,290
7th:  Steven McKoy  –  $53,405
8th:  Raminder Singh  –  $42,525
9th:  Jonathan Kranker  –  $32,845