Officially, there were 361 players entered in this championship event, creating a prize pool of $1,725,350. The top 27 finishers will be paid as follows:

1) $638,380
2) $327,815
3) $163,908
4) $103,521
5) $77,641
6) $60,387
7) $43,134
8) $34,507
9) $27,606
10-12) $20,704
13-15) $17,254
16-18) $13,803
19-27) $10,352


Official Chip Counts for Final 27 Players

With 27 players remaining, the average chip stack is about $133,700. Keeping that in mind, here are your final 27 players:
1. Phil Ivey - $450,000
2. Arnold Spee - $276,500
3. Dan Harrington - $238,000
4. Abraham Gray - $216,000
5. Michael Yoshino - $199,000
6. Kevin Keller - $196,000
7. Stuart Spear - $181,000
8. Andy Bloch - $163,000
9. Russ Carlson - $163,000
10. Bob Slezak - $154,000
11. Tom Becnel - $136,000
12. Steve Friedlander - $131,000
13. Hung La - $128,000
14. Blair Rodman - $128,000
15. Barry Greenstein - $126,000
16. Senthil Kumar - $85,500
17. Mark Chapic - $73,500
18. "Miami" John Cernuto - $69,000
19. Tony Ma - $68,000
20. Louis Asmo - $68,000
21. Ben Piper - $63,500
22. Chris Tsiprailidis - $62,000
23. Aidiliy "Mrs. Grinder" Elviro - $55,500
24. Ron Melrose - $53,500
25. Ben Sarnoff - $48,500
26. Erik Stovall - $37,500

27. Mike Kinney - $35,000
Play resumes tomorrow (Thursday) at 12:00 noon