Level 37 Begins (Heads-Up)

Photo:  Third-Place Finisher Lukas Pazma earned CHF 128,000 (approximately US $143,360).

Level 36 comes to an end, and Level 37 begins with increased blinds of 500,000-1,000,000 and a 1,000,000 ante. Play continues without a break.

With two players remaining from a field of 1,644, the average chip stack is around 24,800,000 (25 big blinds). Here are the final table payouts:

1st:  CHF 268,340*  (~US $300,541*)
2nd:  CHF 172,500  (~US $193,200)

3rd:  Lukas Pazma  –  CHF 128,000  (~US $143,360)
4th:  Alessandro Pichierri  –  CHF 95,800  (~US $107,296)
5th:  Carlos Henningsen  –  CHF 72,300  (~US $80,976)
6th:  Faton Berisha  –  CHF 55,200  (~US $61,824)
7th:  Thomas Hofmann  –  CHF 42,500  (~US $47,600)
8th:  Salih Atac  –  CHF 33,000  (~US $36,960)
9th:  Guodong Yang  –  CHF 25,900  (~US $29,008)

* First-prize amount includes the winner’s US $10,400 seat into the season-ending WPT World Championship in Las Vegas.

NOTE:  For worldwide consistency across all WPT events, the amounts on the Payouts page are in U.S. dollars. For this event, payouts have been converted using a rate of CHF 1.00 = US $1.12.