Event 15: Ricardo Velasco Leads the Final Five at the Break with 31,675,000

$600 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 36:  250,000/500,000 with a 500,000 ante
Players Remaining:  5 of 4,259

After the elimination of Ian O’Hara in sixth place late in Level 35, the final five players discussed making an ICM deal, but weren’t able to agree on numbers. So they kept playing.

A few minutes after that, they took a 10-minute break, and these were their official chip counts (pretty close to what they were when they attempted to make a deal):

Seat 1.  Evan Teitelbaum  –  6,000,000  (12 bb)
Seat 2.  Bradley Coultas  –  10,050,000  (20 bb)
Seat 3.  Ricardo Velasco  –  31,675,000  (63 bb)
Seat 4.  Michael Nye  –  27,300,000  (55 bb)
Seat 5.  Juan Endara  –  10,075,000  (20 bb)

With five players remaining, the average chip stack is about 17,025,000 (34 big blinds). Here are the remaining payouts at stake:

1st:  $365,605 + Showdown trophy
2nd:  $236,300
3rd:  $172,250
4th:  $133,050
5th:  $100,730