Chile's Nicholas "PKaiser" Fierro has been winning a lot of pots in the last hour and is now up to 182,866 chips! He is our new chipleader with more than 100 big blinds.
Chris "888Moorman" Moorman and Aleksandr "EvnomiYa" Mordvinov are among the players who busted right before the closing of the registration period. They opted not to rebuy and left the tournament.
After 4,5 hours registration is now closed. In total, 171 players registered and 72 rebuys were down. The total prize pool is the guaranteed $500,000 and that will be divided among the final 27 players.