After 12 levels of play, a few players have managed to accumulate some impressive stacks (as well as the bounty chips that come with). Here is a look at the current leaderboard:
Xin Qi and Steve Daraiche have begun their heads-up battle here in Event 12, and we’ve already seen some chips travel back and forth between the two. At the moment, Xin has the lead.
Steve Daraiche 
Xin Qi
Xin Qi min-raised from the button, and Gregory went all-in for 760K from the big blind. It took a moment of thought before Xin made the call to go heads-up to the flop.
Xin: 
Gregory: 
Both players hit the 
board, but Xin’s three of a kind was good enough to take the pot.
We are now heads-up between Xin Qi (2,445,000) and Steve Daraiche (2,420,000).
3rd place: Gregory Katayama, $11,555
Event 16 is now in level 11, and the field has been reduced to just 102 players.
Photographs from level 10
Here are the stacks going into level 27:
A few players in the bounty tournament have managed to breach the 6-figure mark already, and currently lead the field:
Gregory Katayama was on the brink of elimination a few hands ago, as his stack was reduced to just over 100K. He has doubled up three times since in almost as many hands, and is now back close to the average.
Here is an update on the current chip counts:
After seeing 1,05M of his chips go to Xin Qi the hand before, when his 
fell victim to 
, Kyle Chang was left with only around 250K in the big blind. Action folded around to Steve Daraiche in the small blind, who bet more than Kyle owned to put some pressure on him. Kyle made the call, and they were off to the races:
Steve:
Kyle: 
Board: 
4th place: Kyle Chang, $8,600
With a stack south of 10 big blinds, James McDermott moved in from the small blind in a unopened pot. Steve Daraiche, who was in the big blind with a monster stack, made the call.
James:
Steve: 
Steve improved his hand on the 
board to eliminated James and bring the final table down to 4 players.
5th place: James McDermott, $6,400
