Dinner Break Until 6:35 pm; Joe Heinzmann Leads with 176,500

Level 9 comes to an end, and the players take a one-hour dinner break. Action is scheduled to resume about 6:35 pm.

With 57 players remaining from a Day 1C field of 109, the average chip stack is 57,400 (57 big blinds). The total field size has increased to 319, and registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the end of the dinner break.

A scan of the field during the break turned up six players with at least 130K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Joe Heinzmann  –  176,500  (177 bb)
2.  K. Papanikos  –  159,100  (159 bb)
3.  Shaun Deeb  –  141,400  (141 bb)
4.  Mike Aman  –  138,300  (138 bb)
5.  J.J. Walsh  –  134,700  (135 bb)
6.  Mark Ritz  –  132,400  (132 bb)