Event 18: Andreas Athanasopoulos Leads the Final Three at the Break

$200 Big Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $200,000  |  Structure |  Payouts
Level 31:  75,000/150,000 with a 150,000 ante
Players Remaining:  3 of 1,130

Andreas Athanasopoulos
Chipleader Andreas Athanasopoulos

Level 30 comes to an end, and the players take a 15-minute break. Here are the official chip counts:

Seat 1.  Andreas Athanasopoulos  –  7,775,000  (52 bb)
Seat 2.  David Kilcoyne  –  6,550,000  (44 bb)
Seat 3.  Dmitri Zaitsev  –  2,625,000  (18 bb)

And here are the final table payouts:

1st:  $33,840 + Showdown Trophy
2nd:  $22,700
3rd:  $16,900

4th:  Gabriel Fuller  –  $12,600
5th:  Minh Nguyen  –  $9,500
6th:  Yaymel Bodes  –  $7,300
7th:  Tyler Ubl  –  $5,600
8th:  David Rivera  –  $4,340
9th:  Keith Saunders  –  $3,400

With three players remaining from a field of 1,130, the average chip stack is around 5,650,000 (45 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $16,900 each.