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| Player | Chips | Progress |
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25,000
25,000
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25,000 |
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25,000
25,000
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25,000 |
The first Daily Deepstack of the day gets underway at 1 p.m. and is a single-day event. It comes with a $250 buy-in, which buys entrants a 25,000 starting stack.
Late registration is open until the start of Level 9, and unlimited reentries are permitted. Levels are 30 minutes long, with 15-minute breaks sprinkled throughout the day. A 30-minute break is scheduled after Level 12.
Blinds began at 100/100, and a big blind ante is active from the beginning.
The full results are in from yesterday's $400 Daily Deepstack that started at 4 p.m.
Kum Im topped the 21-entry field, taking a prize of $2,863 from the $6,930 prize pool. Chun Lung Wong and Paul Pirrone rounded out the podium finishes, with Nicholas Seddon taking the $944.
| Place | Player | Prize | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kum Im | $2,863 | 537 |
| 2 | Chun Lung Wong | $1,909 | 269 |
| 3 | Paul Pirrone | $1,214 | 242 |
| 4 | Nicholas Seddon | $944 | 215 |
Additionally, the points calculator is now live, where you can see how many points you'll earn for your performances.
We're still building our leaderboard page, and that will be live when we receive the rest of yesterday's results.
It's the second day of the 2024 World Series of Poker, and with that, three fresh WSOP Daily Deepstacks are getting ready for their shuffle-up and deals.
Yesterday's 1 p.m. tournament was won by Canada's Simmy Mok, before Kum Im topped the small field in the $400 edition. Poker Pro Cory Biddle reigned supreme in the third Deepstack of the day to wrap up the opening day's proceedings.
We'll bring more news to you about the first set of champions as the day progresses, but until we do, let's take a look at what's on the agenda for today.
In the realm of the Daily Deepstacks, here's today's schedule:
| Date | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Wed 29 May | 13:00 | $ 250 No Limit Hold'em |
| Wed 29 May | 16:00 | $ 400 No Limit Hold'em |
| Wed 29 May | 20:00 | $ 200 No Limit Hold'em |
For the bracelet events taking place in Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas, there's plenty of action in store.
Event #1: $5,000 Champions Reunion, a debuting tournament, kicked off the 55th WSOP in style and sees 99 of the 493 entrants return for Day 2 at noon local time. The top 74 players will finish in the money and guarantee themselves a payday of $9,141, with the eventual champion earning $408,468.
2016 WSOP Main Event champion Qui Nguyen ended Day 1 with 663,000 for the chip lead, narrowly ahead of China's Xiaohu Liuwho bagged 661,000.
The series' first bracelet winner will be determined in Event #2: $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em later today. The pack of 179 players continue their pursuit of the piece of WSOP hardware at 1 p.m. and are competing for a $79,134 first-place prize.
PokerNews' Claudio Elizalde (308,000), Tyler Boyer (292,000), Chance Castro (159,000), Nick Becker (113,000), Lukas Robinson (110,000), Connor Richards (82,000), and Tyler Foran (52,000) also made it through to Day 2.
Two more events get underway today, with Event #3: $500 WSOP Kickoff No-Limit Hold'em Freezeout, which already has cards in the air.
The first non-hold'em tournament of the series, Event #4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better (8-Handed), also begins at 2 p.m.
The $250 WSOP Daily Deepstack that started at 1 p.m. is close to the money bubble, with 52 of the 237 entrants remaining.
The top 30 players will make the money and grab a slice of the $47,400, where more than $10,000 awaits the winner. The min-cash for the event is a respectable $506.
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $10,256 |
| 2 | $6,841 |
| 3 | $4,685 |
| 4 | $3,295 |
| 5 | $2,383 |
| 6 | $1,772 |
| 7 | $1,357 |
| 8 | $1,071 |
| 9 | $872 |
Late registration in the 4 p.m. $400 edition has also closed, with the 22 entries making for a $6,930 prize pool.
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $2,863 |
| 2 | $1,909 |
| 3 | $1,214 |
| 4 | $944 |
The final $200 Daily Deepstack of the day has also begun, with more than 50 entries tallied by the end of the first level.
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The second Daily Deepstack of the WSOP gets underway at 4 p.m. and is a single-day event. It comes with a $400 buy-in, which buys entrants a 30,000 starting stack.
Late registration is open until the start of Level 9 (approx. 7:35 p.m.) and unlimited reentries are permitted. Levels are 20 minutes long, with 15 and 20-minute breaks sprinkled throughout the day.
Blinds began at 100/100, and a big blind ante is active from the beginning.
At this summer's World Series of Poker (WSOP), we're thrilled to sponsor the $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship alongside the PokerNews Deepstack Challenge, which will send 40 qualifiers into the bracelet event via the leaderboard promotion.
Running from May 28 to June 24, the PokerNews Deepstack Challenge will see the players who take part in the daily $200, $250, or $400 deep stack tournaments at the WSOP earn points towards the leaderboard, where the top ten point earners each week will receive complimentary seats for the $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship.
So, in our bid for you to conquer the PokerNews Deepstack Challenge, we've drafted in tournament crusher Raminder "Raminator" Singh, who knows a thing or two about grinding it out and getting the job done in these lower buy-in events, to give you a helping hand.
As well as giving out some handy advice, Singh sat down with PokerNews' for Connor Richards' new podcast: Life Outside Poker.
For the fifth episode, Connor spoke with the South Florida crusher about his nearly one hundred live tournament victories, moving to the US from India and running a business full time. He also shared his strategies for various tournament stages and gave Connor a tour of his one-of-a-kind poker trophy collection.
This interview took place inside Singh's South Florida home during the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown in Hollywood, Florida.
The Life Outside Poker podcast is available on major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify and iHeartRadio. You can also watch the interview with Raminder Singh by heading to the PokerNews YouTube channel.
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