Event 17: Final Table Begins with Yordan Petrov Holding 40% of the Chips

$2,200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guarantee | StructurePayouts
Level 18:  4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  9 of 149

Event 17 Final Table
Event 17 Final Table

After the elimination of Chad Eveslage in 10th place, the final nine players have drawn for random seats at the final table, and they will be playing down to a winner tonight.

Yordan Petrov has been chipleader since the Money Bubble, and he currently has more than 40% of all the chips in play, and three times as many chips as any other player.

Here are their updated chip counts, followed by the remaining payouts:

Seat 1.  Steve Ekin  –  275,000  (34 bb)
Seat 2.  Paul Balzano  –  80,000  (10 bb)
Seat 3.  Brock Wilson  –  172,000  (22 bb)
Seat 4.  Yordan Petrov  –  1,203,000  (150 bb)
Seat 5.  Aleksandr Gofman  –  213,000  (27 bb)
Seat 6.  Ian O’Hara  –  343,000  (43 bb)
Seat 7.  Robert Cahill  –  226,000  (28 bb)
Seat 8.  Hiro Harada  –  397,000  (50 bb)
Seat 9.  Jeffrey Lehouillier  –  78,000  (10 bb)

1st:  $82,265
2nd:  $52,150
3rd:  $30,694
4th:  $18,634
5th:  $14,453
6th:  $11,935
7th:  $10,430
8th:  $9,313
9th:  $8,228

And here are the players who have finished in the money so far:

10th:  Chad Eveslage  –  $7,152
11th:  Jimmy Dang  –  $7,152
12th:  Victor Figueroa  –  $7,152
13th:  Dominique Mosley  –  $6,109
14th:  Trung Tran  –  $6,109
15th:  Michael Tureniec  –  $6,109
16th:  Joe McKeehen  –  $5,215
17th:  Rodrigo Semeghini  –  $5,215
18th:  Vladislav Varlashin  –  $5,215
19th:  Vadim Shlez  –  $4,470