Event 17: Joseph Cheong Leads the Field at the Break with 203,000

$1,100 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Entries:  520

Joseph Cheong
Joseph Cheong

The players return from break to begin Level 9, with increased blinds of 500-1,000, and a big blind ante of 1,000.

Registration is now closed, and the tournament clock shows an unofficial field size of 00000. As soon as the official numbers are released, we will post them here in the updates.

A scan of the field during the break turned up three players with at least 130K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Joseph Cheong  –  203,000  (203 bb)
2.  Conrad Simpson  –  170,000  (170 bb)
3.  Jon Borenstein  –  131,000  (131 bb)

With about 270 players remaining from a field of 520, the average chip stack is about 38,500 (39 big blinds).