Event 2: Money Bubble Begins with Willie Wiggins in the Lead

$400 H.O.R.S.E. (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 6,000/12,000 Limits
Players Remaining:  15 of 109

Willie Wiggins
Willie Wiggins

In the last hand before the break, Phil Hui was eliminated in 16th place. With only 14 finishing in the money, hand-for-hand play would begin as soon as they returned from break.

The blinds are increasing to limits of 6,000-12,000, and here are the official chip counts from the break, along with their stack sizes in big bets (BB):

TABLE 1
Seat 1.
Seat 2.  Caleb Piderit  –  77,000  (6 BB)
Seat 3.  Wally Maddah  –  75,000  (6 BB)
Seat 4.  Gilles Dalco  –  33,000  (3 BB)
Seat 5.  Mark Hurst  –  214,000  (18 BB)
Seat 6.  Mark Kastory  –  21,000  (2 BB)
Seat 7.  Dominic Granteed  –  125,000  (10 BB)
Seat 8.  David May  –  37,000  (3 BB)

TABLE 2
Seat 1.  Nicholas Ceci  –  28,000  (2 BB)
Seat 2.  Willie Wiggins  –  240,000  (20 BB)
Seat 3.  Robert Poolos  –  100,000  (8 BB)
Seat 4.  Oxana Cummings  –  43,000  (4 BB)
Seat 5.  John Binns  –  35,000  (3 BB)
Seat 6.  Maksim Pisarenko  –  79,000  (7 BB)
Seat 7.  George Boyadjian  –  166,000  (14 BB)
Seat 8.  Dmitriy Strunin  –  39,000  (3 BB)

And here are the payouts they’re playing for:

1st:  $10,785 + LHPO trophy
2nd:  $6,755
3rd:  $4,055
4th:  $2,650
5th:  $2,045
6th:  $1,680
7th:  $1,425
8th:  $1,240
9th-10th:  $1,095
11th-12th:  $970
13th-14th:  $875

With 15 players remaining from a field of 109, the average chip stack is around 87,000 (7 Big Bets).