Event 1: James Salmon Leads Final 54

$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 21: 6,000/12,000/2,000 Ante

James Salmon
James Salmon

The field is down to the final six tables (54 players) at the second break of the day, and all of these players are guaranteed at least $940 each. The next pay jump is $1,067 for 45th place.

The average chip stack is about 267,000 (22 big blinds), and there are nine players with more than 500,000, listed below along with a couple of other notable chip counts.

1.  James Salmon III  –  711,000  (59 bb)
2.  John DePersio  –  672,000  (56 bb)
3.  Pasquale Caiazza  –  652,000  (54 bb)
4.  Dimitry Agrachov  –  613,000  (51 bb)
5.  Joseph Ebelhar  –  607,000  (50 bb)
6.  Ira Schwartz  –  556,000  (46 bb)
7.  Matthew Friendly  –  551,000  (45 bb)
8.  Thomas Doherty  –  523,000  (43 bb)
9.  Rafiki Brown  –  511,000  (42 bb)

Darren Stabinski  –  376,000  (31 bb)
Dan Pearlman  –  283,000  (23 bb)
Philippe Goureau  –  226,000  (18 bb)
Steve Karp  –  125,000  (10 bb)