Event 29: Final Table Begins with Leo Taffe in the Lead with 29.6 Million

$800 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prizepool:  $719,100  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 30:  200,000/400,000 with a 400,000 ante
Players Remaining:  9 of 1,020

After the elimination of Roni Zelichonok in 10th place, the final nine players redraw for random seats at the final table.

From this point forward, our updates will follow the same 30-minute delay as the SHRPO Live Stream. So it’ll be another half hour or so before final table updates begin appearing here.

Here is the lineup with official chip counts:

Seat 1.  Matt Paul  –  6,100,000  (15 bb)
Seat 2.  Leo Taffe  –  29,625,000  (74 bb)
Seat 3.  Ory Hen  –  4,775,000  (12 bb)
Seat 4.  Michael Amato  –  24,525,000  (61 bb)
Seat 5.  Kuang Hung Lee  –  6,650,000  (17 bb)
Seat 6.  Alejandro Bristol  –  8,800,000  (22 bb)
Seat 7.  Eric Kolodny  –  4,075,000  (10 bb)
Seat 8.  Victoria Livschitz  –  8,575,000  (21 bb)
Seat 9.  Frank Brannan  –  8,875,000  (22 bb)

And here are the remaining payouts at stake:

1st:  $103,620 + SHRPO Trophy
2nd:  $71,000
3rd:  $52,000
4th:  $39,000
5th:  $29,500
6th:  $22,600
7th:  $17,400
8th:  $13,500
9th:  $10,600

10th:  Roni Zelichonok  –  $10,600

With nine players remaining from a field of 1,020, the average chip stack is around 11,325,000 (28 big blinds).