Play will end tonight at 27 players or the end of this level.  The average chip stack to reach the final table will be about 14m.  As has been the case for the entire event, no clear favorite has emerged (a la Jamie Gold).  Ray Henson has been commanding the most attention as he has climbed from 1.1m to start the day all the way to 8.5m as play begins to wind down for the night.

The top chip counts are:

  1. Ray Henson 8.5m
  2. Scott Freeman 6.51m
  3. Lee Childs 6.5m
  4. Philip Hilm 5.6m
  5. Hevad "rain" Kahn 5.2m

 

Other notables include:

Kenny Tran - 3.9m
Lee Watkinson - 3.8m
Bill Edler - 3.4m
Scotty Nguyen - 3.2m
Daniel Alaei - 2m