Level 31 Begins (Heads-Up)

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Level 30 comes to an end, and Level 31 begins with increased blinds of 80,000-160,000. Play continues without a break.

With two players remaining from a field of 286, the average chip stack is about 4.29 million (27 big blinds). Here are the updated chip counts, followed by today’s prizepool:

Mélanie Hafeli  –  4,520,000  (38 bb)
Do Van Tung  –  4,065,000  (34 bb)

1st:  €57,081*
2nd:  €36,720

3rd:  Roy Al Rineh  –  €26,766
4th:  Tonino Sturzo  –  €19,819
5th:  Ludovic Sultan  –  €14,860
6th:  Isabelle Hadjadj  –  €11,330
7th:  Christos Economides  –  €8,770
8th:  Mauro Muratori  –  €6,895
9th:  Paolo Desimone  –  €5,508
10th:  Guido Presti  –  €5,508
11th:  Lukas Vozdecky  –  €4,471
12th:  Julien Bolimowski  –  €4,471
13th:  Yuri Ishida  –  €3,689
14th:  Francesco Delfoco  –  €3,689
15th:  Laurent Guyon  –  €3,095

* First-prize includes a $2,000 package ($1,500 entry fee plus $500 travel expenses) for the season-ending WPTDeepStacks European Championship.