$3,500 LHPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prizepool: $3,718,400  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Live Stream
Level 19:  10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  90 of 1,162

The players return from break to begin Level 19, with increased blinds of 10,000-15,000 and a 15,000 ante.

A scan of the field during the break turned up 11 players with at least 1.2 million in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Joost Schippers  –  2,160,000  (144 bb)
2.  Emmanuel McKenzie  –  1,855,000  (124 bb)
3.  Caio De Lucca  –  1,810,000  (121 bb)
4.  Christian Roberts  –  1,670,000  (111 bb)
5.  Ryan Hoenig  –  1,565,000  (104 bb)
6.  Julian Pineda Lozano  –  1,535,000  (102 bb)
7.  Ricardo Eyzaguirre  –  1,525,000  (102 bb)
8.  Niall Costigan  –  1,470,000  (98 bb)
9.  Yingui Li  –  1,460,000  (97 bb)
10.  Spencer Champlin  –  1,225,000  (82 bb)
11.  Vitalijs Zavorotnijs  –  1,215,000  (81 bb)

With 90 players remaining from a field of 1,162, the average chip stack is around 645,000 (43 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $8,200 each.

Action will continue tonight until the end of Level 20 (around 12:45 am).

$3,500 LHPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prizepool: $3,718,400  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Live Stream
Level 18:  6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining:  98 of 1,162

Here is a list of the most recent eliminations, along with their payouts:

99th:  Keven Stammen  –  $7,000
100th:  Fabio Santos  –  $7,000
101st:  Eric Afriat  –  $7,000
102nd:  Frank Brannan  –  $7,000
103rd:  Robert LeBeau  –  $7,000
104th:  Frank Lagodich  –  $7,000
105th:  James Raymond  –  $7,000
106th:  Glenn Becker  –  $7,000
107th:  Alessio Isaia  –  $7,000
108th:  Taha Maruf  –  $7,000
109th:  Eric Bonin  –  $7,000
110th:  Nikolai Tulin  –  $7,000
111th:  Domenic Armano  –  $7,000
112th:  Jonathan Jaffe  –  $7,000
113th:  Tony Dunst  –  $7,000
114th:  Michael Graffeo  –  $7,000
115th:  David Jackson  –  $7,000
116th:  Shon Shlomo Perez  –  $7,000
117th:  Eric Yanovsky  –  $7,000

With 98 players remaining from a field of 1,162, the average chip stack is around 593,000 (49 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $8,200 each.

Action will continue tonight until the end of Level 20 (around 12:45 am).

$3,500 LHPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prizepool: $3,718,400  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Live Stream
Level 18:  6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining:  100 of 1,162

Eric Afriat got it all in preflop from middle position with against the of Josh Reichard in the small blind.

The board came , and Reichard won the pot with two pair, aces and jacks with a king kicker to eliminate Afriat in 101st place.

Josh Reichard  –  525,000  (44 bb)
Eric Afriat  –  Eliminated in 101st Place  ($7,000)

With 100 players remaining from a field of 1,162, the average chip stack is around 581,000 (48 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $7,000 each.

Action will continue tonight until the end of Level 20 (around 12:20 am).

$3,500 LHPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prizepool: $3,718,400  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Live Stream
Level 18:  6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining:  102 of 1,162

After a flop of , Robert LeBeau got it all in from the button with for a gutshot straight-flush draw, and he needed to improve to stay alive against the (trip fives) of Yingui Li in the big blind.

The turn card was the , and LeBeau took the lead with an ace-high flush.

But the river card double-paired the board with the , and Li won the pot with a full house, fives full of kings, to eliminate LeBeau in 103rd place.

Yingui Li  –  1,525,000  (127 bb)
Robert LeBeau  –  Eliminated in 103rd Place  ($7,000)

With 102 players remaining from a field of 1,162, the average chip stack is around 570,000 (48 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $7,000 each.

Action will continue tonight until the end of Level 20 (around 12:20 am).

$3,500 LHPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prizepool: $3,718,400  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Live Stream
Level 18:  6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining:  117 of 1,162

Here is the first batch of players who were eliminated since the Money Bubble, along with their payouts:

118th:  Gary Greenlee  –  $6,400
119th:  Alain Medesan  –  $6,400
120th:  Filipp Khavin  –  $6,400
121st:  Nadya Magnus  –  $6,400
122nd:  Sterling Savill  –  $6,400
123rd:  Ari Oxman  –  $6,400
124th:  Ben Warrington  –  $6,400
125th:  Steven Sanzone  –  $6,400
126th:  Jerry Wong  –  $6,400
127th:  Buck Bucceri  –  $6,400
128th:  Isaac Kempton  –  $6,400
129th:  John Wilder  –  $6,400
130th:  Stephen Kehoe  –  $6,400
131st:  Viktor Kovachev  –  $6,400
132nd:  Anthony Cousineau  –  $6,400
133rd:  Steve Yagudaev  –  $6,400
134th:  Maksim Pisarenko  –  $6,400
135th:  David Adam-Castrillo  –  $6,400
136th:  Haim Toorgeman  –  $6,400
137th:  Chad Eveslage  –  $6,400
138th:  Joel Gola  –  $6,400
139th:  Kurt Jewell  –  $6,400
140th:  Harvey Vandeven  –  $6,400
141st:  Alexander Lampropoulos  –  $6,400
142nd:  Adam Lucosky  –  $6,400
143rd:  Ben Ludlow  –  $6,400
144th:  Igor Merda  –  $6,400
145th:  Brian Barros-Vazquez  –  $6,400
146th:  Kamil Zeman  –  $6,400

With 117 players remaining from a field of 1,162, the average chip stack is around 497,000 (41 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $7,000 each.

Action will continue tonight until the end of Level 20 (around 12:20 am).

$3,500 LHPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prizepool: $3,718,400  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Live Stream
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  128 of 1,162

Ren Lin was all in from the small blind for 116,000 with , and he needed to improve to stay alive against the of Isaac Kempton on the button.

The board came , and Lin paired his king on the turn to win the pot and double up in chips.

Ren Lin  –  252,000  (25 bb)
Isaac Kempton  –  100,000  (10 bb)

With 128 players remaining from a field of 1,162, the average chip stack is around 454,000 (45 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $6,400 each.

Action will continue tonight until the end of Level 20 (around 12:20 am).

$3,500 LHPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prizepool: $3,718,400  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Live Stream
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  146 of 1,162

In Hand #7 of hand-for-hand play on the Money Bubble, there were three all-in-and-call situations, and the field needed to lose at least two players to burst the Money Bubble.

On the featured table, David Adam-Castrillo was forced all in from the big blind, and since this is a “big blind first” casino, 4,000 went to the ante, and the remaining 10,000 went to the big blind.

Elvyn Bello limped under the gun, Niall Costigan raised UTG+1 to about 33,000, and Bello folded.

Adam-Castrillo showed , and he needed to improve to stay alive against Costigan’s .

The board came , and Adam-Castrillo paired his three on the flop to win the pot and double up in chips.

David Adam-Castrillo  –  39,000  (4 bb)
Niall Costigan  –  1,100,000  (110 bb)

Out in the tournament area, Nick Scholz was forced all in from the big blind with , and he needed to improve to stay alive against his opponent’s .

The board came , and the bigger stack won the pot with a higher two pair, aces and tens, to eliminate Scholz on the Money Bubble.

Nick Scholz  –  Eliminated

The third table also had an elimination, and with two eliminations, the Money Bubble had burst, and the remaining 146 players were in the money.

With 146 players remaining from a field of 1,162, the average chip stack is around 398,000 (40 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $6,400 each.

Action will continue tonight until the end of Level 20 (around 12:20 am).

$3,500 LHPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prizepool: $3,718,400  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Live Stream
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  148 of 1,162

In Hand #6 of hand-for-hand play on the Money Bubble, there were two all-in-and-call situations.

On the Featured Table, David Adam-Castrillo moved all in under the gun for 1,000, Andrew Moreno raised from the button to 20,000, and both blinds folded.

Adam-Castrillo turned over , and needed it to hold to stay alive against Moreno’s . Adam-Castrillo’s hand held up, and he multiplied his stack by 14 times (technically called a quattuordecuple).

Unfortunately for Adam-Castrillo, he still didn’t have enough to pay the big blind and the big blind ante, so he’d be forced all in on the next hand anyway.

David Adam-Castrillo  –  14,000  (1.4 bb)

Out in the main tournament room, Nick Scholz got his short stack all in with against , but the board came to chop the pot.

On to Hand #7.

With 148 players remaining from a field of 1,162, the average chip stack is around 393,000 (49 big blinds). The final 146 players will finish in the money, with a min-cash worth $6,400.

Action will continue tonight until the end of Level 20 (around 12:20 am).

$3,500 LHPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prizepool: $3,718,400  |  Structure  |  Payouts  |  Live Stream
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  148 of 1,162

A new table was moved to the stage for the SHRPO Live Stream, and here is the lineup as the Money Bubble begins two spots from the money:

Seat 1.  David Adam-Castrillo  –  1,000  (<1 bb)
Seat 2.  Elvyn Bello  –  427,000  (43 bb)
Seat 3.  Niall Costigan  –  1,072,000  (107 bb)
Seat 4.  Tyler Phillips  –  259,000  (26 bb)
Seat 5.  David Jackson  –  83,000  (8 bb)
Seat 6.  Andrew Moreno  –  216,000  (22 bb)
Seat 7.  Keven Stammen  –  256,000  (26 bb)
Seat 8.  Max Young  –  612,000  (61 bb)

With 148 players remaining from a field of 1,162, the average chip stack is around 393,000 (49 big blinds). The final 146 players will finish in the money, with a min-cash worth $6,400.

Action will continue tonight until the end of Level 20 (around 12:20 am).