Late registration has now closed and there are a total 97 players entered of which 68 are still in contention.  The $10,000 guaranteed prize pool has been surpassed and players fighting it out for a total of $14,113!

During the break we took a walk around the room to survey the chipstacks, and with an average stack of close to 29,000, our eyes were on the lookout for any of the stacks above 60,000.  The man on top is  Raffi Garabetian, sitting on 88,800, almost 3x the average. He is followed closely by Ben Menache and David Journo.  With lots of poker still to be played out, it is still anyone’s game and we will keep an eye on the field to see if anyone else joins the leaderboard.