High Roller: Joseph Cheong and Dan Colpoys Lead at the Break

$25,500 High Roller NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts
Level 16:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  14 of 93

Joseph Cheong
Chipleader Joseph Cheong

The players return from break to begin Level 16, with increased blinds of 10,000-20,000 and a big blind ante of 20,000. During the break, the players moved to a table in the Grand Ballroom to finish out the night.

With 14 players remaining from a field of 93, the average chip stack is about 665,000 (33 big blinds). The final 13 players will finish in the money, guaranteed at least $57,430 each.

Here are the official chip counts from the break:

Table 8
Seat 1.  David Mock  –  345,000 (17 bb)
Seat 2.  Rainer Kempe  –  530,000  (27 bb)
Seat 3.  Jonathan Jaffe  –  895,000 (45 bb)
Seat 4.  Vikenty Shegal  –  285,000  (14 bb)
Seat 5.  Erik Seidel  –  85,000  (4 bb)
Seat 6.  Joseph Cheong  –  1,720,000  (86 bb)
Seat 7.  Eli Berg  –  700,000  (35 bb)
Seat 8.

Table 16
Seat 1.  Jerry Wong  –  915,000  (46 bb)
Seat 2.  Sameer Batra  –  360,000  (18 bb)
Seat 3.  Dan Colpoys  – 1,550,000  (78 bb)
Seat 4.  Chad Eveslage  –  215,000  (11 bb)
Seat 5.  Caleb Piderit  –  385,000  (19 bb)
Seat 6.
Seat 7.  Tim Capretta  –  845,000  (42 bb)
Seat 8.  Darren Elias  –  425,000  (21 bb)

Action is scheduled to continue tonight until there are nine players remaining for tomorrow’s final table, which is scheduled to begin at 12:00 noon EST.

Dan Colpoys
Dan Colpoys is second in chips with 1.55 million, and the only player other than Joseph Cheong with more than one million in chips.