$50,000 Super High Roller (Single Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 17:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  6 of 29

Level 16 came to an end with the final six players still on the Money Bubble, and with it Day 1 also came to an end. The players bagged up their chips, and here are the official chip counts:

Seat 1.  Cary Katz  –  225,000  (9 bb)
Seat 2.  Zhuang Ruan  –  940,000  (38 bb)
Seat 3.  Sean Perry  –  300,000  (12 bb)
Seat 4.  Giuseppe Iadisernia  –  850,000  (34 bb)
Seat 5.  Dan Smith  –  995,000  (40 bb)
Seat 6.  David Peters  –  315,000  (13 bb)

The chipleader is Dan Smith with 995,000 (40 big blinds), followed closely by 20-year-old Zhuang Ruan with 940,000 (38 big blinds).

With six players remaining from a field of 29, the average chip stack is about 605,000 (24 big blinds). Here are the payouts at stake:

1st:  $562,600 + SHRPO Trophy
2nd:  $351,625
3rd:  $225,040
4th:  $154,715
5th:  $112,520

Day 2 begins tomorrow (Friday) at 2:00 pm, and they will play down to a winner while Day 1A of the $5,250 SHRPO Championship is underway.