Event 17: Kamel Mokhammad Leads the Field at Dinner with 7.55 Million

$1,100 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $678,030  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 27:  100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante
Players Remaining:  17 of 699

Kamel Mokhammad
Kamel Mokhammad

The final 17 players are still on their dinner break until about 7:18 pm. Here are their official chip counts:

TABLE 7
Seat 1.  David Lee  –  7,100,000  (36 bb)
Seat 2.  Igor Holdaiy  –  3,100,000  (16 bb)
Seat 3.  John McDonald  –  4,125,000  (21 bb)
Seat 4.  Kamel Mokhammad  –  7,550,000  (38 bb)
Seat 5.  Mitchell Tsang  –  5,025,000  (25 bb)
Seat 6.  Ari Katz  –  3,425,000  (17 bb)
Seat 7.  Moshe Refaelovitz  –  2,250,000  (11 bb)
Seat 8.  Alexis Rivera  –  6,750,000  (34 bb)
Seat 9.  

TABLE 8
Seat 1.  Robert-Andrei Burlacu  –  2,300,000  (12 bb)
Seat 2.  Kevin Paustenbach  –  2,225,000  (11 bb)
Seat 3.  Drew Dodge  –  3,000,000  (15 bb)
Seat 4.  Stephen Gerber  –  5,400,000  (27 bb)
Seat 5.  Anatoly Nikitin  –  3,275,000  (16 bb)
Seat 6.  Jonathan Wang  –  6,050,000  (30 bb)
Seat 7.  Manuel Amaro Alvarez  –  1,775,000  (9 bb)
Seat 8.  Edward Medoff  –  3,025,000  (15 bb)
Seat 9.  James Salmon  –  1,525,000  (8 bb)

And here is the remaining prizepool at stake, followed by recent eliminations:

1st:  $103,370 + RRPO Trophy
2nd:  $71,000
3rd:  $53,000
4th:  $39,500
5th:  $30,000
6th:  $22,800
7th:  $17,500
8th:  $13,600
9th-10th:  $10,700
11th-12th:  $9,500
13th-15th:  $8,400
16th-17th:  $7,300

18th:  Leandro Rubinsztain  –  $7,300
19th:  Adrian Lipe Jerez  –  $7,300

20th:  Imre Papp  –  $6,200
21st:  Dmitri Zaitsev  –  $6,200
22nd:  Ari Dinov  –  $6,200
23rd:  Nan Min  –  $6,200

With 17 players remaining, the average chip stack is around 4,100,000 (21 big blinds).