Counts on Break

The final 18 players have headed off for another 15-minute break. The next three players eliminated will all take home $1,974.

A lot of chips have been passed around over the course of the last couple levels. However, we have yet to see someone runaway with a monster chip lead. In fact, quite the opposite has occurred. When play reached the final 27 players there were three 1M+ stacks in play. There are now only two.

Michele Iacovone continues to lead the field. He is at a high point of over 1.7M. Kirby Mendola (pictured) is the only other player over 1M. Average stack is 660,000. The majority of players are + or - 250k of that average mark.

They'll come back to 10k/20k blinds. Here are counts by table:

Table 5
Patrick Steele - 610,000
Josh Gervais - 800,000
Arnesto Akrawi - 330,000
Edward Mogilnicki - 240,000
Timothy Ebenhoeh - 700,000
Goce Bozinoski - 975,000
Brent Joost - 510,000
Wasim Mahfooth - 700,000
Luc Lucaj - 315,000

Table 8
Leka Dedvukaj - 850,000
Matthew Underwood - 980,000
Kirby Mendola - 1,020,000
Aaron West - 470,000
Brian Bishop - 195,000
Eric Stocz - 650,000
Rui Zhu - 355,000
Jesse McIntyre - 470,000
Michele Iacovone - 1,770,000