$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 25: 15,000/30,000/5,000 Ante

In the first 30 minutes of this level, Zo Karim more than doubled his already-large chip stack to catapult into the chip lead with 2.7 million. Karim is one of the most experienced players in the field, with final tables on the World Poker Tour and at the World Series of Poker, along with more than $1.1 million in live tournament earnings.

Zo Karim  –  2,700,000  (90 bb)

Stewart Newman just busted a player to join the million-chip club. The small blind was all in with against Newman’s , and the board came to give Newman the knockout and a couple hundred thousand more chips.

Stewart Newman  –  1,250,000  (41 bb)

Here are several of the largest chip stacks from the field:

Zo Karim  –  2,700,000  (90 bb)
Sam Panzica  –  2,115,000  (70 bb)
Kyle Sorel  –  2,100,000  (70 bb)
Steven McKoy  –  1,875,000  (62 bb)
Michael Tufaro  –  1,650,000  (55 bb)
Hayden Fortini  –  1,530,000  (51 bb)
Stewart Newman  –  1,250,000  (41 bb)

With 44 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 1,125,000 (37 big blinds).