The remaining 326 players have returned from their break to begin Level 20, with increased blinds of 5,000-10,000 and a 1,000 ante. The average chip stack is about 260,000 (26 big blinds).

We carefully scanned the field during the break to find all the chipleaders, and here they are:

1.  Chino Rheem  –  1,137,000  (113 bb)
2.  Michael Marrero  –  892,500  (89 bb)
3.  Alcides Gomez  –  830,000  (83 bb)
4.  Yaron Wasserman  –  807,000  (80 bb)
5.  Dave Mochon  –  790,000  (79 bb)

The final 300 players will finish in the money, guaranteed at least $1,169, and the next pay jumps are for 250th place ($1,220) and 200th place ($1,288).

First prize is $291,087, but even though the schedule indicates playing to a winner tonight, that seems highly unlikely. (We expect this to roll over to tomorrow.)

26 away from the money in the million guar. Grinding ten bigs tho.

— Michael Rizzuto (@mikerizz33) August 18, 2013