Mario De La Puente Leads the Field at the Dinner Break with 995K

Photo: Mario De La Puente

The players are on a 75-minute dinner break until 7:45 pm. A scan of the field turned up 11 players with at least 600K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Mario De La Puente  –  995,000  (166 bb)
2.  Chad Eveslage  –  975,000  (163 bb)
3.  Uri Kadosh  –  800,000  (133 bb)
4.  Keith Ferrera  –  760,000  (127 bb)
5.  Victor Ramdin  –  755,000  (126 bb)
6.  Jorge Martinez  –  680,000  (113 bb)
7.  Jacob Wojtuniecki  –  675,000  (113 bb)
8.  Anthony Hu  –  640,000  (107 bb)
9.  Shawn Nguyen  –  633,000  (106 bb)
T-10.  Eric Afriat  –  630,000  (105 bb)
T-10.  Jerry Wong  –  630,000  (105 bb)

There are currently 187 players remaining, and the final 170 will finish in the money. Here are the payouts:

1st:  $715,175*
2nd:  $465,120
3rd:  $344,960
4th:  $257,815
5th:  $194,610
6th:  $148,380
7th:  $114,285
8th:  $88,930
9th-10th:  $69,920
11th-12th:  $55,550
13th-14th:  $44,600
15th-16th:  $36,195
17th-20th:  $29,690
21st-24th:  $24,625
25th-32nd:  $20,650
33rd-40th:  $17,510
41st-48th:  $15,015
49th-56th:  $13,025
57th-64th:  $11,425
65th-72nd:  $10,145
73rd-80th:  $9,110
81st-89th:  $8,285
90th-98th:  $7,620
99th-116th:  $7,100
117th-134th:  $6,695
135th-152nd:  $6,395
153rd-170th:  $6,185

* First-prize amount includes the winner’s $15,000 entry into the season-ending Baccarat Crystal WPT Tournament of Champions.