The Escalator is now in level 13, where the blinds have been increased to 40-minutes each. The depth of this structure is starting to take place, and the increasing blinds will allow for much more play in the levels to come. Although the field has been reduced to 32 players from the 111 that started, the average stack is of 26 big blinds, and will deepen over time.
Only two players have reached the 6-figures so far, as Nader Ammar and Carl Laberge share the chip lead, sitting on roughly 110,000 each. The third largest stack is of 84,000, and belongs to Eddie Daldalian, and he is followed closely by several other players.
Photographs taken during levels 11 and 12:
