Jean Paul Norero Leads the Final 18 in Deepstack Kick-Off
The second day of Event #3: $600 Deepstack Kick-Off has now reached the final 18 of the 233 that began the day and after the dust had settled it was Jean Paul Norero leading the way.
Norero sat around average for most of the day and it was not until after dinner break that he really started to gain traction. The Brooklyn, NY native catapulted late in the day, sending multiple players out en route to bagging the chip lead with his 4,215,000 stack.
Nipping at the heels of the leader is BorgataPoker.com sponsored pro Katie Stone, who ended the day with 4,145,000. Stone had an action-packed day that saw her stack take a few hits early on, but she fought back and ended the day on a high note as she bagged an impressive stack that is good for second on the leaderboard.
Some familiar faces to find a final day birth include Soukha Kachittavong (3,400,000), Patrick Ibrahim (2,715,000), Bin Weng (2,505,000), Victor Ramdin (2,500,000), Mike Linster (1,585,000), Gilberto Taveras-Garcia (1,485,000), Markus Alim (845,000), and Jon Borenstein (695,000).
The tournament drew a total of 1,425 entry slips and of those slips only 233 returned today to battle it out. The plan was to play down until the final 18 before bagging up for the night and that happened on level 26 with 34:42 remaining on the clock. Players will resume at this exact tomorrow at noon for the final day of the tournament. The tournament will not end until a winner is crowned, taking down the $155,251 first-place prize, along with a Borgata Fall Poker Open trophy.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be bringing you all of the live updates, so stay tuned as all of the action unfolds.
on the flop. 
turn instantly hit Linster, giving him a flush as he took the lead but was not in the clear as Arabadjiev could fill up to take down the pot.
completed the board, cementing the pot for Linster who sent the Day 1c chipleader to the cleaners, pulling in a much-needed pot.
on the flop and Wang led out for 40,000.
for a turned straight and the current nuts. His opponent was drawing dead when they revealed 
and Wang took down the pot, without having to sweat the 
river card.
on the river. Ramdin moved all in without hesitation and his opponent folded just as quickly, shipping the pot to Ramdin.
was good against a shorter stack's 
and Gavrilov is up to ~270,000.
