$3,500 WPT Tampa Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26:  50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining:  18 of 1,165

Level 25 comes to an end, and the players take a one-hour dinner break. Action is scheduled to resume at 7:45 pm EDT.

Here are the official chip counts from the break:

TABLE 53
Seat 1.  Yuri Martins  –  775,000  (10 bb)
Seat 2.  Steve Brite  –  1,550,000  (21 bb)
Seat 3.  Jebhar Patterson  –  750,000  (10 bb)
Seat 4.  Perry Shiao  –  1,350,000  (18 bb)
Seat 5.  Dennis Rodriguez  –  1,825,000  (24 bb)
Seat 6.  Dave Berman  –  3,275,000  (44 bb)
Seat 7.  
Seat 8.  

TABLE 54
Seat 1.  Jon Borenstein  –  2,175,000  (29 bb)
Seat 2.  
Seat 3.  
Seat 4.  Jonathan Jaffe  –  7,900,000  (105 bb)
Seat 5.  James Gilbert  –  750,000  (10 bb)
Seat 6.  Brian Altman  –  3,900,000  (52 bb)
Seat 7.  T.K. Miles  –  3,200,000  (43 bb)
Seat 8.  Gabriel Abusada  –  1,850,000  (25 bb)

TABLE 57
Seat 1.  
Seat 2.  John Haas  –  3,100,000  (41 bb)
Seat 3.  Peter Vitantonio  –  2,200,000  (29 bb)
Seat 4.  Steve Queen  –  2,575,000  (34 bb)
Seat 5.  Zachary Smiley  –  5,175,000  (69 bb)
Seat 6.  Joe Steur  –  1,875,000  (25 bb)
Seat 7.  Will Berry  –  2,375,000  (32 bb)
Seat 8.  

With 18 players remaining from a field of 1,165, the average chip stack is about 2.6 million (35 big blinds). The remaining players are all guaranteed at least $26,290 each. The next pay jump will be $31,950 for 16th place.

Action will continue tonight until the end of Level 28, or there are six players left, whichever comes first.