The chips have been moving back and forth across the tables and with 126 players still in contention and an average stack hovering around 43,000, John Rathbun has bolted into the lead with 133,200 chips. He is followed in second place by Jason Galet, sitting on 120,100 chips.  The first break chip leader Carl Des Granges has taken a large hit to his stack but is still sitting above average, with a little work ahead of him he hopefully will be able to climb back onto the leaderboard.

It’s obvious that since the re-entry period came to a close, play has become more cautious as there were no “no mega stacks” to be found in the room, and, on many of the tables, there are quite a few players now with similar stacks. As play continues there is sure to be more changes to the leaderboard before the next break hits in just over an hour from now.

Here is the leaderboard from the second break: