After six starting flights that generated a total of 3,389 entries, Day 2 of Event 7 ($560 No-Limit Hold’em) is underway. Just shy of 816 players are back at it (some players had multiple stacks because of re-entires) and the plan for the day is to play down to a winner. The average stack is abotu 104,000 and on top of the chip counts entering the day is Pedro “Pete” Rios with 453,500.

Levels are 40 minutes with a break after every three levels. Play starts at Level 15, with the blinds at 1,500/3,000 and a 300 ante.

Action has come to an end for the final flight of Event 7 ($560 NLHE w/ $1 Million Guarantee), though it is going to take a while to process all of the chip bags and compile the official chip counts. We will be working on that for the next hour or so, and we will post the results here as soon as we can.

Unofficially, it looks like there will be 816 players returning for Day 2.

Here are the official Day 2 chip counts.

Event 10 ($240 HORSE) came to an end a short while ago with 11 players remaining, and they will return to action tomorrow at 3:00 pm.

Make special note of that, because the original schedule said Day 2 would start at 1:00 pm. But because of the huge field in Event 7, there won’t be any room for it. So it’ll be a 3:00 pm start.

Here are the official chip counts, along with the five players who busted in the money:

1.  Mark Robinson  –  149,000
2.  Jason Like  –  140,000
3.  Bruce Zalkin  –  115,000
4.  Jordan Chizick  –  87,000
5.  Gary Flur  –  84,000
6.  Ronald Unber  –  58,000
7.  Barry Levy  –  56,000
8.  Bob Poolos  –  55,000
9.  Ed Ward  –  28,000
10.  Chris Kasper  –  24,000
11.  Ralph Broderick, Jr.  –  20,000

12th:  Arnold Cohen  –  $428
13th:  Ky MacPherson  –  $306
14th:  Wendell Morse  –  $306
15th:  Michelle Lau  –  $306
16th:  Joseph Antelo  –  $306

Action will resume tomorrow (Sunday) at 3:00 pm ET.

On Day 1 of large-field tournaments, the chipleading stacks at the break always get larger. It’s a certainty, like death or taxes. You can set your watch on it.

Well, maybe not.

Amazingly, the chipleader after four levels had more chips than the chipleader after six levels. Moises Natanel had 265,000 after eight levels, but he dropped down to about 180,000 after 12 levels. But his lead had been so big, that four levels wasn’t long enough for anyone to catch him.

As the blinds increase to 1,000-2,000 with a 200 ante, here’s a look at the new batch of chipleaders (everyone over 200K in chips):

T-1.  Jason Hobbs  –  230,000  (115 bb)
T-1.  Mario Hudson  –  230,000  (115 bb)
3.  Mark Wahba  –  223,000  (111 bb)
4.  Theo Lawson  –  215,000  (107 bb)
5.  Arturo Garcia  –  208,000  (104 bb)

The field will play another hour (two levels), and then stop for the night.

Can’t sleep. Feels like Christmas Eve w day 2 of the milly tomorrow. 1.7 million under the tree. #shrpo

— Michael Rizzuto (@mikerizz33) August 18, 2013

The field is down to the final two tables (16 players) in Event 10 ($240 HORSE), which means they are in the money. Here’s the prizepool that they’re playing for:

1st:  $6,120
2nd:  $3,468
3rd:  $2,468
4th:  $1,714
5th:  $1,306
6th:  $1,000
7th:  $796
8th:  $592
9th-12th:  $428
13th-16th:  $306

There is a break coming up in 20 minutes, and we’ll post chip counts for the remaining players at that time.

Total Field Size:  3,389
Players Remaining:  620 (Flights 1A-1E) + TBD (Flight 1F)
Total Prizepool:  $1,694,500

1st:  $291,087
2nd:  $190,125
3rd:  $124,630
4th:  $104,635
5th:  $85,150
6th:  $66,935
7th:  $49,140
8th:  $33,045
9th:  $23,725
10th-12th:  $15,250
13th-15th:  $11,014
16th-18th:  $8,642
19th-27th:  $7,032
28th-36th:  $5,507
37th-45th:  $4,660
46th-54th:  $4,067
55th-63rd:  $3,660
64th-72nd:  $3,304
73rd-81st:  $2,965
82nd-90th:  $2,745
91st-100th:  $2,542
101st-110th:  $2,372
111th-120th:  $2,203
121st-130th:  $2,033
131st-140th:  $1,864
141st-150th:  $1,695
151st-160th:  $1,559
161st-170th:  $1,440
171st-180th:  $1,356
181st-200th:  $1,288
201st-250th:  $1,220
251st-300th:  $1,169