Event 27: Dinner Break Until 8:30 pm; Andrew Ostapchenko Leads with 347,000

$2,200 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em
$200,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 15:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining:  25 of 108

Andrew Ostapchenko
Chipleader Andrew Ostapchenko

Level 14 comes to an end, and the players take a 45-minute dinner break. Action is scheduled to resume around 8:30 pm.

With 25 players remaining from a field of 108, the average chip stack is around 108,000 (27 big blinds). A scan of the field during the break turned up two players with at least 200K in chips:

1.  Andrew Ostapchenko  –  347,000  (87 bb)
2.  Matthew Lambrecht  –  320,000  (80 bb)
3.  Alexander Yen  –  231,000  (58 bb)

Action is scheduled to continue tonight until they are down to the final nine players for tomorrow’s 12:00 noon final table. The final 14 players will finish in the money, and here are the payouts:

1st:  $56,500 + LHPO Trophy
2nd:  $37,500
3rd:  $28,000
4th:  $20,900
5th:  $15,800
6th:  $12,000
7th:  $9,300
8th:  $7,200
9th-10th:  $5,600
11th-12th:  $4,800
13th-14th:  $4,000