The action is back underway in level 9, and this flight has a new chip leader.

Former chip leader Donald Billow has fallen off the pace, as a flock of new players have flown to the top of the leaderboard. And those players are led by Nikolas Blanchette, who went on a great run prior to the most recent break to take a commanding chip lead. Blanchette’s stack gives him roughly 140 big blinds at this point, well more than double the current chip average.