20 Teams Return for the Title and Two Bracelets in Event #55: $1,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold'em

Tyler Foran

The final day of Event #55: $1,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold'em is here and play kicks off at 3 p.m. local time. The duos have all secured at least $4,799 as a team and will all be looking to ladder up to the first-place prize of $148,067.

Team Kraemer consists of Mackenzie Kraemer and Jon Schiller and they will be coming back with the chip lead of 1,715,000, which is good for 57 big blinds at the start of the day. Rounding off the top three are Team Russell (Adam Russell - Ryan O'Grady) and Team Barnum (Justin Barnum - DJ Buckley).

Event 55: $1,000 Tag Team Top Ten Chip Counts

Place	Team	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Mackenzie Kraemer - Jon Schiller	1,715,000	57
2	Adam Russell - Ryan O'Grady	1,575,000	53
3	Justin Barnum - DJ Buckley	1,505,000	50
4	Nick Yunis - Reynel Hernandez	1,350,000	45
5	Franco Spitale - Martin Pochat	1,270,000	42
6	Curtis Knight - Chris Barnes	1,205,000	40
7	Patrick Leonard - Espen J?rstad	1,060,000	35
8	Julian Rugna - Franco Gasparini	1,020,000	34
9	Colin Robinson - Harry Lodge	965,000	32
10	Jason Lipiner - Dekel Balas	830,000	28

When play resumes, they will start at Level 23 which features a small blind of 15,000, a big blind of 30,000, and a big blind ante of 30,000. There are no regular breaks during play as the team members can tag each other out but play will be paused for a color-up break when chips are raced off . The level duration will remain at 60 minutes throughout the day.

The PokerNews live reporting team will be there from the first raise until the final all in, so make sure to follow along with all the live updates right here.