Over the past three days, 84 players have managed to make the top 7% of the six starting flights on Event #7. Young pro Danny Illingworth bagged the overall chip lead yesterday with 840,000 in chips. Ryan Teves (748,000) and Joey Deluca (723,000) are hot on his heels in 2nd and 3rd.
The action will resume at 3 PM today, with the blinds rolled back to 3,000-6,000. All blind levels today will be 40 minutes long today, until we reach the final table, where they will bump up to 60 minutes long. The eventual winner of tonight’s final will take home $50,000 even, as well as a free $10,000 seat to the WSOP Main Event in July. Good luck everyone, and thanks for making this event so huge!
| NAME | CHIP COUNT | T–S | NAME | CHIP COUNT | T–S | |||
| 1 | DANIEL ILLINGWORTH | 840,000 | 15–3 | 43 | SON HOANG | 262,000 | 14–7 | |
| 2 | RYAN TEVES | 748,000 | 17–6 | 44 | BEN CHUNG | 262,000 | 7–8 | |
| 3 | JOSEPH DELUCA | 723,000 | 8–5 | 45 | STAN BUFFETT | 254,000 | 16–5 | |
| 4 | DAVID MARSHALL | 693,000 | 13–8 | 46 | DAVID BABA | 252,000 | 17–9 | |
| 5 | DANTE TABING | 626,000 | 5–6 | 47 | PETER TREGLIA | 244,000 | 17–7 | |
| 6 | SENON PASTORES | 586,000 | 16–3 | 48 | ALEX MASSMAN | 244,000 | 18–2 | |
| 7 | MIGUEL HERNANDEZ | 517,000 | 14–4 | 49 | HOWARD DOERFLING | 232,000 | 8–4 | |
| 8 | BEHTAJ AMIRI | 489,000 | 18–3 | 50 | MASSOUD SETAYESH | 229,000 | 9–1 | |
| 9 | KENNETH GAREN | 482,000 | 7–1 | 51 | WILLIE CHANG | 221,000 | 13–2 | |
| 10 | GARY ABLESER | 479,000 | 9–2 | 52 | ANTHONY PIZZA | 206,000 | 9–7 | |
| 11 | JAMES LEE | 478,000 | 7–7 | 53 | STEVEN POLEN | 203,000 | 17–8 | |
| 12 | SEON KIM | 477,000 | 8–1 | 54 | BOBBY CLARKE | 203,000 | 18–5 | |
| 13 | RAZMIK PERIA | 473,000 | 5–9 | 55 | HYONG KIM | 195,000 | 15–8 | |
| 14 | BERNICE TATO | 442,000 | 13–3 | 56 | LANCE FOSHE | 190,000 | 16–4 | |
| 15 | JAY KANESHIRO | 434,000 | 16–8 | 57 | TIN NGUYEN | 186,000 | 5–1 | |
| 16 | GREG PASZKIEWICZ | 431,000 | 15–7 | 58 | HOAN VUONG | 186,000 | 14–3 | |
| 17 | JEREMY YAP | 420,000 | 18–4 | 59 | YUEQI WANG | 175,000 | 13–9 | |
| 18 | LANCE GARCIA | 418,000 | 17–4 | 60 | OSCAR CERNA | 175,000 | 15–9 | |
| 19 | MICHAEL WANG* | 398,000 | 14–5 | 61 | ERIC BRUSKOTTER | 169,000 | 5–4 | |
| 20 | CUU HOANG | 394,000 | 7–5 | 62 | CHRISTIAN FOSTER | 168,000 | 14–9 | |
| 21 | SEBASTIAN LINH | 393,000 | 9–8 | 63 | MICHAEL NIA | 165,000 | 7–9 | |
| 22 | JAMES AHN | 392,000 | 16–9 | 64 | LEON NORTON | 164,000 | 14–6 | |
| 23 | ANTHONY NGUYEN | 385,000 | 8–3 | 65 | JAY CHAVKIN | 159,000 | 17–1 | |
| 24 | CHIMEZIE IGWE | 366,000 | 5–5 | 66 | DAVID BROWN | 155,000 | 9–4 | |
| 25 | JAMES PILPA | 339,000 | 18–6 | 67 | TOMMY SAN | 154,000 | 13–6 | |
| 26 | RIF DAGHER | 338,000 | 13–5 | 68 | DANIEL PARK | 150,000 | 8–2 | |
| 27 | JARED KAWALSKY | 333,000 | 9–5 | 69 | MARK ALIAKBARZADEH | 146,000 | 17–2 | |
| 28 | ROY VISHINSKY | 331,000 | 16–1 | 70 | PHIL HAYANO | 142,000 | 5–7 | |
| 29 | YOSEF FOX | 331,000 | 8–8 | 71 | JON PECK | 141,000 | 8–7 | |
| 30 | IMAD NASRALLA* | 326,000 | 17–3 | 72 | ROBERT GRAY | 135,000 | 7–4 | |
| 31 | RUBIN CHAPPELL | 323,000 | 5–2 | 73 | IRA FRIEDMAN | 134,000 | 15–4 | |
| 32 | PAUL CHAUDERSON | 319,000 | 5–8 | 74 | DAVID HIGGINS | 125,000 | 14–2 | |
| 33 | RASHIM CANNAD | 318,000 | 15–1 | 75 | MARIOS FAUCEGLIA | 125,000 | 13–4 | |
| 34 | JESUS SANCHEZ | 318,000 | 7–3 | 76 | JEFFREY YARCHEVER | 124,000 | 9–6 | |
| 35 | ARAM TOROSSIAN | 316,000 | 15–5 | 77 | DAVID NIEDRINGHAUS | 124,000 | 5–3 | |
| 36 | KIEN TIEU | 316,000 | 8–6 | 78 | GABRIEL CISNEROS | 123,000 | 18–9 | |
| 37 | ILYA SHPINER | 314,000 | 15–6 | 79 | VADIM BARANOVSKY | 121,000 | 16–2 | |
| 38 | ROSS TESSER | 299,000 | 9–3 | 80 | LAURENCE BABAHEKIAN | 93,000 | 8–9 | |
| 39 | JASON PAQUIN | 288,000 | 13–1 | 81 | MASSOUMEH KHARAZATI | 86,000 | 16–6 | |
| 40 | THO NGO | 287,000 | 13–7 | 82 | STEVE REITZFELD | 78,000 | 15–2 | |
| 41 | FRED WOLF | 285,000 | 18–8 | 83 | PHONG TURBO NGUYEN | 73,000 | 14–1 | |
| 42 | NEO HOANG | 269,000 | 7–6 | 84 | TARUN RAVI | 70,000 | 18–1 |