Event 9
Level 26 (15,000/30,000/5,000)Total Entrants: 195
Players Remaining: 9
Chip Average: 433,000
After blowing through the money bubble, the Final Table bubble of Event 9 lasted for longer than we expected with a few short stacks doubling up and play slowing despite the high blinds and antes grinding down the remaining players.
Those stacks are going to get even shorter as we are about to head on the next break in the action, meaning that the big blind is now going to "cost" players 30,000 chips.
That is leaving nearly half of our Final Table a 10 big blind stack which means that we are definitely going to see a lot of eliminations over the next few levels and we'd be shocked to see this Final Table go past 1 o'clock in the morning.
The official Final Table counts and seating assignments, after Marc Mescier was eliminated in 10th place after coming in with 50,000 chips, are listed below:
- Gregory Spirito - 800,000
- Tom Cady - 675,000
- Chris Leong - 400,000
- Sharman Olshan - 300,000
- Michael Guzzardi - 350,000
- Jeffery Giordano - 250,000
- Sy Israel - 375,000
- Michael Tocci - 350,000
- Ralph Murphy - 250,000
It should be noted that there are just over 100 total big blinds in play.
