$1,100 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $589,760  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 24:  50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante
Players Remaining:  21 of 608

Lou Ojeda raised from the hijack to 210,000, Shayne Mogilsky moved all in from the small blind for 1,575,000, and Ojeda waited for an exact count before he called with .

Mogilsky turned over , and needed it to hold to stay alive.

The board came , and Ojeda paired his queen on the flop to win the pot and eliminate Mogilsky in 22nd place.

Lou Ojeda  –  5,250,000  (53 bb)
Shayne Mogilsky  –  Eliminated in 22nd Place  ($5,200)

With 21 players remaining from a field of 608, the average chip stack is around 2,895,000 (29 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $5,200 each.

$1,100 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $589,760  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 24:  50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante
Players Remaining:  24 of 608

The players have returned from break to begin Level 24, with increased blinds of 50,000-100,000 and a 100,000 ante.

With 24 players remaining from a field of 608, the average chip stack is around 2,535,000 (25 big blinds). A scan of the field during the break turned up only four players with at least four million in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Ronnie Day  –  7,175,000  (72 bb)
2.  Benjamin Moschel  –  4,610,000  (46 bb)
3.  Andrew Yurchak  –  4,480,000  (45 bb)

Here is the current seat draw:

TABLE 6
Seat 1.  Anatoly Nikitin
Seat 2.  Reynel Hernandez
Seat 3.  Rinat Dinmukhametov
Seat 4.  John Marlowe
Seat 5.  Andrew Pichee
Seat 6.  Andrew Yurchak
Seat 7.  Matthew Lambrecht
Seat 8.  Wayne Leonard
Seat 9.

TABLE 7
Seat 1.  Theo Lawson
Seat 2.  Shayne Mogilsky
Seat 3.  Michael Rein
Seat 4.  Carlos Bermudez
Seat 5.
Seat 6.  George Hortelano
Seat 7.  Dmitri Zaitsev
Seat 8.  Lou Ojeda
Seat 9.  Imre Papp

TABLE 8
Seat 1.  Benjamin Moschel
Seat 2.  Nadya Magnus
Seat 3.  James Salmon
Seat 4.  Vitalijs Zavorotnijs
Seat 5.  Tal Rothman
Seat 6.  Ronnie Day
Seat 7.  Shravan Kulshrestha
Seat 8.
Seat 9.  William Soscia

And here are the remaining payouts at stake:

1st:  $99,640 + LHPO Trophy
2nd:  $67,000
3rd:  $49,500
4th:  $37,000
5th:  $28,000
6th:  $21,300
7th:  $16,400
8th:  $12,700
9th-10th:  $10,000
11th-12th:  $8,600
13th-15th:  $7,400
16th-19th:  $6,200
20th-23rd:  $5,200
24th:  $4,360

$1,100 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $589,760  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 23:  40,000/80,000 with a 80,000 ante
Players Remaining:  27 of 608

Midway through Level 23, Jorge Confesor was eliminated in 28th place to trigger the three-table redraw. The last 27 players will take new seats and continue the march to the title.

We will gather a complete table lineup and chip counts at the break coming up.

28th: Jorge Confesor – $4,360
29th: Cuba Levenberry – $4,360
30th: Lowell Kim – $4,360
31st: Santo Biddix – $4,360

32nd: Rafael Abrahamyan – $3,680
33rd: Natan Lidukhover – $3,680
34th: Luke Graham – $3,680
35th: David Nowling – $3,680
36th: Jason Rocha – $3,680
37th: Zyad Qasem – $3,680
38th: Gary Gelman – $3,680
39th: Joseph Ozimok – $3,680

$1,100 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $589,760  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 22:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  36 of 608

The pace continues to move along, and the Platinum Stack dropped to four tables not long after the blinds were increased. They are now playing 30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante and the average stack is about 1,690,000 (28 bb) so it won’t slow for a while.

40th: Arthur Azen – $3,100
41st: Lawerence Rabie – $3,100
42nd: Craig Pollak – $3,100
43rd: Justin Fawcett – $3,100
44th: Martins Adeniya – $3,100
45th: Daniel Vranich – $3,100
46th: Fred Goldberg – $3,100
47th: Hunter Rosling – $3,100

$1,100 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $589,760  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 21:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  43 of 608

Platinum Stack players returned from their first break with 43 players remaining and the pay jumps climbing.

We found two big stacks, one over three million and one dead on it. Rafael Abrahamyan leads the field with 3,165,000 while Theo Lawson sits second with 3,000,000 on the dot.

Next milestone will be a three-table redraw when 27 players remain.

$1,100 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $589,760  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 20:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  55 of 608

Another level (almost) down and another table broken, leaving us with five in action and pay jumps climbing. They will play out Level 20 and take their first break.

48th: Matthew Yorra – $2,620
49th: Dirk Perdrix – $2,620
50th: Dylan Kahn – $2,620
51st: Karanvir Singh – $2,620
52nd: Eric Yanovsky – $2,620
53rd: Brendan Waite – $2,620
54th: Ory Hen – $2,620
55th: Ernest Bush – $2,620

$1,100 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $589,760  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 19:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  55 of 608

56th: Ido Ashkenazi – $2,240
57th: Samuel Bernstein – $2,240
58th: Jonathan Tamayo – $2,240
59th: Roidi Regalado – $2,240
60th: Nick Ahmadi – $2,240
61st: Saber Salum Penayo – $2,240
62nd: Aaron Gao – $2,240
63rd: Eric Siegel – $2,240

$1,100 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $589,760  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 17:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  60 of 608

Action is flying right along in the Platinum Stack and we are already down to seven tables. Here’s a look at some of the results so far:

64th: Mitch Mitchell – $1,940
65th: Paul Fischer – $1,940
66th: Nichola Ralph – $1,940
67th: Daniel Gallardo Barajas – $1,940
68th: Jon Gottlieb – $1,940
69th: Lior Rusinek – $1,940
70th:  Jair Fajardo Suarez  –  $1,940
71st: Devon Workman – $1,940
72nd: James Perri – $1,940
73rd: Dario Dussan Guzman – $1,940
74th: Sean Phillippi – $1,940
75th: Antonio Salorio – $1,940
76th: Yutaka Kawai – $1,940

$1,100 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $589,760  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 17:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  73 of 608

We missed the preflop action but reached Table 7 right as the last chips went into the middle in a three-way all-in pot.

Antonio Salorio was the shortest of the three with 260,000 but had the best hand with . Sean Phillippi had the second biggest stack with , and William Soscia needed help with his , but was the only player not at risk.

The flop changed nothing, but Phillippi picked up a club draw on the turn. The script was flipped when Soscia came from behind and paired his jack on the river to send both opponents out.

William Soscia – 1,650,000 (66 bb)
Sean Phillippi – Eliminated in 74th Place ($1,940)
Antonio Salorio – Eliminated in 75th Place ($1,940)

$1,100 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool:  $589,760  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 17:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  76 of 608

Cards are in the air for Day 2 of the $1,100 Platinum Stack with 76 players remaining at nine tables.

They will play out the last nine minutes of Level 17 before levels go up to 40 minutes for the rest of the tournament.