Event 46: Dinner Break Until 8:33 pm; Brandon Kessous Leads the Final 14 with 1,389,000

$10,000 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Structure  |  Payouts
Level 10:  6,000/12,000 with an 12,000 ante
Players Remaining:  14 of 55

Brandon Kessous
Chipleader Brandon Kessous

Level 9 comes to an end, and the players take a one-hour dinner break. Action is scheduled to resume around 8:33 pm.

With 14 players remaining from a field of 55, the average chip stack is around 393,000 (33 big blinds). Here are the official chip counts from the dinner break:

TABLE 23
Seat 1.  Faraz Jaka  –  148,000  (12 bb)
Seat 2.  Kevin Rabichow  –  661,000  (55 bb)
Seat 3.  Harvey Castro  –  337,000  (28 bb)
Seat 4.
Seat 5.  James Mendoza  –  199,000  (17 bb)
Seat 6.  Brandon Kessous  –  1,389,000  (116 bb)
Seat 7.  Poseidon Ho  –  453,000  (38 bb)
Seat 8.  Chris Brewer  –  73,000  (6 bb)

TABLE 24
Seat 1.  Scott Margereson  –  107,000  (9 bb)
Seat 2.  Jeremy Becker  –  361,000  (30 bb)
Seat 3.  Frank Funaro  –  203,000  (17 bb)
Seat 4.  Anatoly Nikitin  –  818,000  (68 bb)
Seat 5.  Matthew Beinner  –  200,000  (17 bb)
Seat 6.
Seat 7.  Brian Altman  –  244,000  (20 bb)
Seat 8.  Eli Berg  –  303,000  (25 bb)

And here are the payouts they’re playing for:

1st:  $188,000
2nd:  $120,000
3rd:  $70,600
4th:  $49,700
5th:  $39,200
6th:  $31,400
7th:  $23,600