Event 15: Ricardo Velasco Leads the Final Nine at the Break with 23,075,000

$600 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 35:  200,000/400,000 with a 400,000 ante
Players Remaining:  9 of 4,259

Ricardo Velasco
Ricardo Velasco

The final nine players returned from break to begin Level 35, with increased blinds of 200,000-400,000 with a 400,000 ante.

Here are the official chip counts from the break:

Seat 1.  Evan Teitelbaum  –  7,500,000  (19 bb)
Seat 2.  Jonathan Kranker  –  6,400,000  (16 bb)
Seat 3.  Steven McKoy  –  4,275,000  (11 bb)
Seat 4.  Bradley Coultas  –  8,125,000  (20 bb)
Seat 5.  Ricardo Velasco  –  23,075,000  (58 bb)
Seat 6.  Raminder Singh  –  3,025,000  (8 bb)
Seat 7.  Ian O’Hara  –  13,475,000  (34 bb)
Seat 8.  Michael Nye  –  14,400,000  (36 bb)
Seat 9.  Juan Endara  –  3,925,000  (10 bb)

With nine players remaining, the average chip stack is about 9,450,000 (24 big blinds). Here are the remaining payouts:

1st:  $365,605 + Showdown trophy
2nd:  $236,300
3rd:  $172,250
4th:  $133,050
5th:  $100,730
6th:  $74,290
7th:  $53,405
8th:  $42,525
9th:  $32,845