Event 9: Conniff and Van Sanford Out Front

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 21: 6,000/12,000 with a 2,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 159 of 2,923
Average Stack: 368,000 (31 big blinds)

Asher Conniff (Brooklyn, NY)
Asher Conniff (Brooklyn, NY)

Players are back from the break and everyone is chasing the 2015 WPT World Champion. Asher Conniff holds a slim lead over fellow WPT winner Ryan Van Sanford with John Miller joining them as the only players over 1 million.

John Miller (Plantation, FL)
John Miller (Plantation, FL)

Notable counts:

Ryan Van Sanford – 1,080,000 (90 bb)
Asher Conniff – 1,031,000 (86 bb)
John Miller – 1,000,000 (83 bb)
Stuart Paterson – 993,000 (83 bb)
Oren Maimon – 965,000 (80 bb)
Tomas Petru – 939,000 (78 bb)
Artem Maksimov – 901,000 (75 bb)
Steve Legault – 893,000 (74 bb)
Matthew Wantman – 807,000 (67 bb)
Nancy Birnbaum – 693,000 (58 bb)
Aaron Mermelstein – 612,000 (51 bb)
Vitor Coelho – 471,000 (39 bb)
Mike Beasley – 454,000 (38 bb)
Jorie Damiani – 404,000 (34 bb)
James Salmon – 301,000 (25 bb)
Todd Breyfogle – 287,000 (24 bb)
Stewart Newman – 259,000 (22 bb)
Leonard Benitez – 221,000 (18 bb)
Hans Winzeler – 214,000 (18 bb)
John Pappas – 209,000 (17 bb)
Kathy Liebert – 193,000 (16 bb)
Cornel Cimpan – 169,000 (14 bb)
Sean Shah – 138,000 (12 bb)
Abbey Daniels – 128,000 (11 bb)