The players have just returned from their final break of the afternoon, with only 36 players still in the field.

Charles Gagnon, the chip leader from earlier in the day, reclaimed the chip lead on the final hand before the break. Gagnon took down a huge heads-up pot against his neighbour, Richard Sysko. At the time, Sysko also had one the larger stacks in play, but he lost the vast majority of his chips when Gagnon’s flopped two-pair hand got the best of him.

The chip leaders are now playing some very deep stacks. The current chip average provides roughly 46 big blinds, but the top stacks in play have far more at their disposal.