The second break is over and the players are about 10 minutes into level 9 of 14 to be played today. Blinds are 500/1000/a100 and the average stack is 41.4K. As I cruised the floor before and during the last break I saw a few big stacks around 150K. Check out our Facebook gallery for Day 1b to see some of the bigger stacks.
One player was approaching 200K until he doubled up Trishelle Cannatella just before the break. We missed the action – when we got there Trishelle was in a strong position having called with pocket tens against the big stack’s pocket fives. Her tens held up and she doubled to around 60K while the other player still had well over 140K.
Players have another 5 levels to play and we’ll be posting chip counts.