$3,500 LHPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prizepool: $3,718,400 | Payouts | Results
Level 22: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining: 43 of 1,162
Before the action got underway, Anatoly Nikitin was forced all in from the small blind for 10,000.
Ricky Landais raised from the button to 75,000, Nick Funaro reraised from the big blind to 350,000, and Landais quickly folded. Funaro took the side pot.
Nikitin turned over 
, and needed to improve to stay alive against Funaro’s 
.
The board came 
, and Nikitin flopped a club flush draw, but improved no further. Funaro won the pot with a king-high straight to eliminate Nikitin in 44th place.
Nick Funaro – 2,360,000 (79 bb)
Anatoly Nikitin – Eliminated in 44th Place ($16,300)
With 43 players remaining from a field of 1,162, the average chip stack is around 1,350,000 (45 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $16,300 each.
There will be a redraw when the field gets down to the final three tables (24 players), and at that point, blind levels will increase to 90 minutes. Action is scheduled to continue tonight until there are seven players remaining for tomorrow’s live-streamed final table.
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