Number Crunching

We're halfway through Level 9. That means there is still another two-and-a-half hours of poker to be played tonight.

So far we've lost about a third of our original Day 1a starting field of 137. There are 85 players still with chips, positioned around 10 tables.

Thanks to those 30,000-chip starting stacks, most players still have plenty of chips with which to play -- the current chip average is more than 48,000 or about 60 big blinds.