Event 33: Registration Has Closed; Young Eum Leads the Field at the Break with 114,000

$2,200 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Entries:  227

Young Eum

The players return from break to begin Level 9, with increased blinds of 500-1,000 with a 1,000 ante.

Registration is now closed, and the tournament clock shows an unofficial field size of 227 entries. As soon as the prizepool is released, we will post it here in the updates.

A scan of the field during the break turned up three players with at least 90K in chips, plus two more knocking on the door to create an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Young Eum  –  114,000  (114 bb)
2.  Shannon Shorr  –  97,500  (98 bb)
3.  Luke Brereton  –  91,000  (91 bb)
4.  Aaron Thomas  –  89,500  (90 bb)
5.  Courtney Webb  –  89,000  (89 bb)

The field will be playing down to the final nine players tonight, and the final table is scheduled to begin tomorrow (Friday) at 1:00 pm.