Dinner Break Until 8:45 pm; Three Players Over 200K

Photo:  Alex Gray is the newest member of the WPT Royal Flush Crew, and she is here on the Italian Riviera for WPTDeepStacks Sanremo. Be sure to follow Alex on Twitter or on Instagram, and you can also check out her first video from Sanremo.

Level 9 comes to an end, and the players take a 75-minute dinner break. Action is scheduled to resume around 8:45 pm.

With 79 players remaining from a Day 1B field of 165, the average chip stack is about 62,700 (63 big blinds). Combined with the 65 entries from Day 1A, the total field size is up to 231 entries. Registration remains open until the end of the dinner break, and players are allowed one entry and one-entry per starting flight. The final flight will be Turbo Flight 1C, which begins tonight at 9:00 pm with 20-minute levels.

Action will continue tonight until the end of Level 12, around 10:45 pm.

A scan of the field during the break shows three players with at least 200K:

1.  Christian Petre  –  237,000  (237 bb)
2.  Aziz Smati  –  229,000  (229 bb)
3.  Christos Economides  –  204,600  (205 bb)

Photo:  Christos Economides (pictured below) won WPTDS Amsterdam earlier this season, and is currently tied for the lead in the WPTDS Player of the Year race. Even a min-cash will be enough to give Economides the outright lead.